Toyota has decided that there is little future for electric cars and has reigned in its plans to build battery electric vehicles. When you think of hybrid cars, you think of Toyota. But Toyota didn’t want to be left behind if battery electric cars strike a chord with buyers, so they were planning an extensive […]
Jaguar F-Type & 2013 Range Rover LIVE at Paris 2012
Jaguar Land Rover will officially debut the Jaguar F-Type and 2013 Range Rover at Paris 2012 on Thursday – LIVE on Cars UK. [nggallery id=1178 template=customlinks] We’ve already had the official reveal of the 2013 Range Rover, and the new Jaguar F-Type slipped out last week too, quickly followed by a single official photo from […]
Singapore Grand Prix (2012) RESULT
With a very strong Lewis Hamilton on pole in the 2012 Singapore Grand Prix it looks like McLaren are in a dominant position. But are they? McLaren has been strong in the last few races, with Hamilton taking three poles in four and Button winning from lights to flag in Spa, followed by what should have been […]
Top Gear take the Bentley Continental GT Speed Rallying
Top Gear has been on the 2012 WRC Wales Rally with a Bentley Continental GT Speed driven by Kris Meeke with James May as co-driver. We know that Top Gear won’t be back on our screens – at least not with a new series – until 2013, because Jeremy Clarkson told us. But that doesn’t mean […]
Audi: Electric Turbo, e-Gas & Intelligent Hybrids
Audi are developing new technologies to make cars more efficient including synthetic fuel, electric turbos and intelligent hybrids. Necessity is the mother of invention, and increasingly stringent CO2 emissions targets imposed by governments are making car makers ever more resourceful in their quest to cut emissions. The fact that CO2 emissions are not the bad guy – […]
Singapore Grand Prix (2012): Hamilton on pole for McLaren
Lewis Hamilton posted a stunning lap time to take pole position in tomorrow’s Singapore Grand Prix ahead of the Williams of Pastor Maldonado. All the talk about Lewis Hamilton may have been about a move to Mercedes this week, but under the lights at Singapore today it was all about his stunning lap that captured pole position […]
2012 Paris Motor Show | Mondial de l’Automobile 2012 à Paris: Preview
September 29th 2012 sees the start of the Paris Motor Show – one of the biggest auto shows in the world. We’ll have all the news and reveals here on Cars UK. The Paris Motor Show – Mondial de l’Automobile 2012 à Paris – is one of the most important shows on the auto calendar, and the […]
New Maserati GranCabrio MC Stradale arrives early
The 2013 Maserati GranCabrio MC Stradale – the drop-top version of the GranTurismo MC Stradale – revealed ahead of Paris 2012. [nggallery id=1251 template=customlinks] With the 2012 Paris Motor Show arriving next week, the reveals are coming thick and fast – official and leaked. The 2013 Maserati GranCabrio MC Stradale falls in to the latter camp – Maserati hasn’t revealed the cabrio […]
Honda planning new Civic Type-R, Compact SUV, Hydrogen & more for 2015
Honda boss, Takanobu Ito, has revealed plans for a new Civic Type-R, new compact SUV, new hydrogen car and more by 2015. Could it be that Honda are starting to come out of the beige doldrums? Although there’s little doubt that Honda makes a very good car, it’s seemed to have been very cautious and chosen follow more than lead […]
Porsche 918 Spyder takes on the Nurburgring
Porsche has taken their concept hybrid supercar – the 918 Spyder – to the Nurburgring to set a time – 7 minutes 14 seconds. [nggallery id=1250 template=customlinks] The Porsche 918 Spyder, which will find itself in competition with the new McLaren P1 and Ferrari F70 when it arrives at the end of 2013, is taking a slightly different route […]