The new Nissan Note has turned in to a Ford Fiesta basher as Nissan turn the Note from a boring little MPV in to a convincing small hatch. [nggallery id=1402 template=customlinks] We got a fair idea of what the new Nissan Note would offer when Nissan delivered the Invitation concept at the Geneva Motor Show […]
Nissan LEAF EV sales top 50,000
Nissan has revealed that sales of the electric LEAF have now topped 50,000 units since the LEAF went on sale in 2010. We’re not fans of the electric car as a replacement for the ICE car, but some electric cars can give a fair impression (at a a price) of a traditional family car, and […]
Top Gear Tonight: Kia Cee’d, Hot Hatch Astra Focus Megane Test, Mastretta & Lewis Hamilton
Series 19 episode 4 of Top Gear tonight with hot hatch test – Astra VXR, Focus ST, Megane 265 – Kia Cee’d, Mexican Mastretta and Lewis Hamilton is SIARPC. We’re now more than half way through the new series of Top Gear, with episode 4 on tonight. And its choice of cars this week is […]
Toyota Auris Touring Sports Specification – but no price
Toyota has revealed specifications for the Auris Estate – the Toyota Auris Touring Sports – but has yet to come up with a price. [nggallery id=1259 template=customlinks] The Toyota Auris Touring Sports – the Auris Estate, in simple terms – arrived at the Paris Motor Show last year, and a convincing looking effort it seems. At the time, apart […]
Alfa Romeo Gloria Concept looks like a proper Alfa
A new Alfa concept – the Alfa Romeo Gloria Concept – is heading for the 2013 Geneva Motor Show. But it’s not previewing a new Alfa. [nggallery id=1412 template=customlinks] Some petrolheads (hello, Top Gear’s Clarkson, May and Hammond) love to say that you’re not a true petrolhead unless you’ve owned an Alfa Romeo. They’re wrong, of course, but […]
Toyota GT86 Convertible spied in South Africa
Ahead of a reveal of a concept version of the Toyota GT86 Convertible at the Geneva Motor Show, the soft-top GT86 has been spied Almost a year ago we learned that a Toyota GT86 Convertible was in the planning after Toyota’s chief engineer, Tetsuya Tada, revealed that the GT86 (and therefore the Scion FR-S and Subaru BRZ) were […]
Koenigsegg Tease: It’s a customised 2013 Agera S for Geneva 2013
Koenigsegg has released a teaser image for a new Koenigsegg at the 2013 Geneva Motor Show, which will be a customised Agera S. The last news we had from the intrepid Swedes at Koenigsegg was news of a new model for China – the Koenigsegg One:1, when we were exclusively able to reveal that the One:1 was […]
New Hyundai Sant Fe delivers up a ‘Storm’ for London Fashion Week
Hyundai has delivered a fleet of new Santa Fe’s to Storm Model Management to ferry models round the shows at London Fashion Week AW13. [nggallery id=1401 template=customlinks] We often wonder how car makers decide which placements give them the best return for their investment. Is there a little man in a cupboard with an abacus […]
2013 Kia Pro_cee’d specs and prices: Costs from £17,495
Kia has revealed price and specification for the 2013 Procee’d, starting from £17,495 for the Pro_cee’d 1.6 GDI S rising to £20,795 for the SE. [nggallery id=1228 template=customlinks] Most of the buzz around the 2013 Kia Pro_Cee’d recently has been the imminent arrival of the more powerful Procee’d GT, which will debut at next month’s Geneva Motor […]
New Range Rover to get 3.0 V6 Supercharged engine for 2014
The new Range Rover is to get the new 3.0 litre Supercharged engine in place of the naturally aspirated 5.0 litre in the U.S. for the 2014 model. [nggallery id=1178 template=customlinks] The new Range Rover is already sold out in the U.S. – for at least the next six months – so Land Rover dealers […]