Audi has revealed that it’s dropped plans to put the A2 electric concept – first revealed at Frankfurt 2011 – in to production. [nggallery id=764 template=customlinks] Audi’s efforts to recreate the innovation it showed with the original Audi A2 – and its cutting-edge design (for the time – 1999) and aluminium, lightweight body – by launching a new […]
Citroen DS3 DStyle Red & DSport Red special editions
Citroen has launched a pair of special edition DS3s – the DS3 DStyle Red & DSport Red – to give New Year sales a bit of a fillip. Price from £15,655. [nggallery id=1343 template=customlinks] There’s nothing quite like a special edition of an established car with extra goodies for not a lot more money to get footfall in to […]
Top Gear Series 19 starts 27th January 2013
It looks like the new series of Top Gear – Series 19 – will start on 27th January after ticket allocations opened up for the Wednesday before. The new series of Top Gear – which will be series 19 – should have been on our screens months ago, but the summer of sport, Strictly and […]
Lamborghini 50th Anniversary Car: The tease begins – sort of (video)
With the promise of a new car to celebrate 50 years, Lamborghini is ramping up interest in its half century anniversary with a history and tease video. With 2013 seeing the 50th Anniversary of Lamborghini’s arrival as a maker of supercars, we have the promise of a new car to celebrate the occasion. Last month […]
New 2013 Bentley Continental GT Speed Convertible: Official
The Bentley Continental GT Speed Convertible, the drop top version of the GT Speed, has been officially revealed ahead of a Detroit Auto Show debut. [nggallery id=1341 template=customlinks] We actually had the first photos of the new Bentley Continental GT Speed Convertible on Christmas Eve after news of the new GT Speed Convertible leaked out, but it looks […]
Happy New Year! Our Top 12 Car News stories of 2012 – month by month
Happy New Year to one and all from all of us here at Cars UK. We take a look back at the top car news story on Cars UK for every month of 2012. As it’s New Years Day 2013, it seems the right time to take a look back at the top car news […]
(Another) Top 10 Stolen Cars List
We have another list of the most stolen cars in the UK in 2011-2012, this one from online car insurer Swiftcover. And it’s the Land Rover Defender at the top. Who’d have thought it? The Land Rover Defender is the most stolen car in the UK. Well, sort of. Swiftcover – an online car insurance company – […]
Geely to buy bankrupt London Taxis
The Chinese press are reporting that Geely are to buy London Taxi maker Manganese Bronze, which went in to liquidation in October. Back in October we reported that Manganese Bronze – makers of the iconic London Taxi – had gone in to administration, finally tipped over the edge by steering box failures in the TX4. After years […]
Car Insurance ‘Black Box’ a good idea? We find out.
We’ve been testing a new ‘Telematics’ App from Confused.com which mimics the ‘Black Box’ technology insurers are offering in an attempt to make car insurance cheaper. The inexorable rise and rise of car insurance premiums is a fact of life, and will continue until government gets a handle on ambulance-chasing lawyers and the UK’s idiotic whiplash claims […]
Making of the Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo (video)
Porsche has released a video chronicling the development of the Panamera Sport Turismo as the first model extension of the Panamera. [nggallery id=1255 template=customlinks] The Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo Concept we saw at Paris in the autumn may have been billed as a ‘Concept’, but Porsche are going to a lot of trouble to detail a car they claim not yet to have […]