InvestIndustrial – former owners of Ducati – have taken a 37.5 per cent stake in Aston Martin for £150 million. We’ve been proclaiming for more than a year that Aston Martin needs new investment, and AML finally confirmed as much a few weeks ago. And just yesterday we revealed a deal for Aston Martin was […]
Hyundai i30 hits a million
Hyundai has revealed it has now built more than a million i30s with European sales accounting for 500,000 of those sales. [nggallery id=1313 template=customlinks] The new Hyundai i30 is a very good family car, as we discovered when we recently reviewed the latest i30. So it’s no big surprise it’s turning in to a big seller for Hyundai, and is […]
New Range Rover (2013) wins Top Gear Luxury Car of the Year
The 2013 Range Rover – Land Rover’s new Flagship SUV – has won its first major award as Top Gear Luxury car of the year. [nggallery id=1178 template=customlinks] The new Range Rover may not be hitting showrooms until 2013, but it’s already grabbed what Land Rover are calling its ‘First Major Award’ – the Top Gear […]
Aston Martin Sale: InvestIndustrial (& AMG) look to have won
It looks like the sale of a chunk of Aston Martin is going to InvestIndustrial, promising Mercedes AMG technology for AML. Just last week, Aston Martin finally confirmed the the Kuwait Investment Dar was looking to off-load a chunk of its shareholding in AML. And now it looks like a deal is done. The Times of […]
UK Car Sales up again in November (2012)
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders has revealed that new car sales grew again in the UK in November – up by 11.3 per cent. At some point, new car sales in the UK must surely start to ease as the economic pressure bite, but so far in 2012 we’ve had an inexorable rise in numbers. The latest figures […]
Top Hyundai UK Dealers honoured
Hyundai’s top UK dealers have been honoured with awards at an event in Frankfurt. Bristol Street Motors, Monaghan Brothers, Sandon Road Hyundai and J T Hughes won awards. There are lots of threads to making a brand succeed, and Hyundai’s stellar rise from budget ‘dofor’ to mainstream beating has meant weaving those threads together like a […]
2013 Honda CR-Z Facelift: Price from £20,550
The price for the facelifted 2013 Honda CR-Z has been announced. The CR-Z Sport will start from £20,550 and the CR-Z GT will cost £23,050. [nggallery id=1325 template=customlinks] Honda’s Hybrid Hope – the Honda CR-Z – arrived in 2010 as Honda’s effort to take a slice of the hybrid car sales from Toyota, but it’s not […]
2013 Ford Kuga: Price from £20,895
The 2013 Ford Kuga will cost from £20,895 for the entry-level Kuga 1.6T EcoBoost 150PS Zetec, rising to £29,545 for the Kuga 2.0TDCi 163PS AWD Titanium X. [nggallery id=982 template=customlinks] Just a few days ago, Ford revealed that the new Kuga was finally starting production in Spain, but confessed they hadn’t finished playing with their abacus to […]
BMW 4 Series: The new 3 Series Coupe arrives
The BMW Concept 4 Series Coupe – a two door version of the new 3 Series – has been revealed and will debut at the 2013 Detroit Auto Show. [nggallery id=1324 template=customlinks] The fact that BMW are building a 4 Series range to be to the 3 Series what the 6 Series is to the […]
2013 Toyota RAV4: Price from £22,595
Toyota has announced that the new Toyota RAV4 will cost from £22,595 for the RAV4 Active 2WD 2.0 Diesel to £29,295 for the Invincible AWD 2.2 Diesel. [nggallery id=1323 template=customlinks] The 2013 Toyota RAV4 got its official reveal at the Los Angeles Auto Show, although we had a set of leaked photos of the new […]