Jaguar has slashed prices across its range in Australia – by as much as £40,000 – as it fights for a bigger market share. [nggallery id=826 template=customlinks] Australians have been used to high prices for imported luxury cars for decades, once caused by huge protectionist import duties – which no longer really exist – but […]
Nissan Extrem: It’s a Micra Urban Crossover
The Nissan Extrem Concept has been revealed in Brazil as an urban crossover based on the Micra platform. [nggallery id=1287 template=customlinks] Nissan has been talking about something exciting and new at the Sao Paulo Motor Show in Braizil, and this is it – the Nissan Extrem. The Extrem is, say Nissan, an ‘Urban Rally Car’ […]
Hyundai HB20 & HB20X debut in Brazil
Hyundai has debuted the HB20 hatchback and HB20X Crossover at the Sao Paulo Motor Show in Brazil. [nggallery id=1286 template=customlinks] Just as it does in Europe, Hyundai creates cars for specific markets around the world, and builds them there too. So with the Sao Paulo Motor Show up and running in Brazil, Hyundai has debuted […]
VW Taigun: It’s an Up! SUV
Volkswagen has revealed the VW Taigun at the Sao Paulo Motor Show in Brazil, a very compact SUV based on the VW Up! [nggallery id=1285 template=customlinks] We revealed in May that one of the two small SUVs VW are planning was heading for production as a sub compact SUV with Up! underpinnings, and that now seems a certainty […]
Subaru BRZ Turbo to get 280bhp
The much hoped for Subaru BRZ Turbo – the Subaru version of the Toyota GT86 – is set to arrive in 2014 with 280bhp. [nggallery id=850 template=customlinks] The Subaru BRZ (and, for that matter, the Toyota GT86) is a cracking little driver’s car that offers real driver appeal without resorting to huge horsepower to provide the fun. But […]
New Range Rover gets Bridge of Weir Leather
The new Range Rover (2013) is getting its sumptuous leather interior courtesy of Bridge of Weir Low Carbon Leathers [nggallery id=1178 template=customlinks] To be honest, where exactly the leather that swathes the interior of the new Range Rover comes from is not something that is high on the list of ‘must-knows’ for prospective Range Rover owners. But it […]
Churchill’s Land Rover sells for £129,000
A Land Rover presented to Sir Winston Churchill on his 80th birthday has sold at auction for £129,000. Sir Winston Spencer Churchill, probably the greatest Prime Minister the UK has ever had, was 80 in 1954, prompting Rover to present the great man with a custom Land Rover so he could be chauffeured round his Chartwell Estate. The […]
Jaguar XF is ‘Car of the Decade’
The Southern Guild of Motoring Writers has declared the Jaguar XF the car of the decade at the SGMW’s 10th anniversary event. [nggallery id=963 template=customlinks] The Jaguar XF was first revealed in 2007 as the C-XF Concept at the Detroit Motor Show and then as a production XF at the Frankfurt Motor Show later the […]
New Infiniti G Series to debut at 2013 Detroit Auto Show
The new 2013 / 2014 Infiniti G Series will debut at the Detroit Motor Show in January before going on sale later in 2013. Infiniti may not have managed to make the biggest mark on the car landscape in the UK, but the news of a new G-Series is interesting because it seems likely it […]
Jaguar F-Type R: Coupe or Roadster?
With the new Jaguar F-Type arriving in showrooms in spring 2013, will the follow-on performance F-Type R be a coupe or Roadster? [nggallery id=1254 template=customlinks] After initially feeling that the new Jaguar F-Type seemed a bit on the pricey side, we re-evaluated our thoughts and decided the F-Type is actually a cut-price Aston Martin Vantage, […]