Fiat has turned to Romanian stunner Catrinel Menghia once more to inject some sexiness, leather and the odd slap to the Abarth 500. Fiat tried to get America to fall in love with the 500 by getting Jennifer Lopez to strut around with their new baby. But it wasn’t exactly an overwhelming success. So when they […]
New Aston Martin DBS WON’T keep the ‘DBS’ badge
The revised Aston Martin DBS – due to arrive later in 2012 – will take many styling cues from the One-77 and get a new name. Aston Martin are busy working on an updated DBS (which is why we’re about to get the DBS Ultimate Edition) and are aiming for a reveal by the Paris Motor Show in September. […]
Audi TT RS plus costs from £48,945
With the Audi TT RS Plus order book about to open in the UK, Audi reveals it will costs from £48,945 for the manual coupe. Audi revealed the TT RS Plus back in February – ahead of a debut at the Geneva Motor Show in March – as a new range-topping model to sit above […]
Why official car CO2 emissions are a lie
Motorists buy cars based on, and are taxed on, their CO2 emissions. But the CO2 emissions are as big a lie as the official economy figures. We’ve banged on forever about official economy and emission figures and how misleading they are. But it’s worse than that – they’re a complete lie. Did you think car makers […]
Campaign for Fair Car Insurance Renewals
Cars UK are calling for Insurance Companies to quote their ‘Online’ price for car insurance as a comparison when insurance renewal letters are sent. Car Insurance is big news, with prices rising by 40 per cent in the last year according to the AA, and cash-strapped motorists struggling to meet the soaring costs of insuring […]
Beijing 2012: It’s a Breast Show with Cars
Chinese authorities have reprimanded the organisers of the Beijing Motor Show for the ‘Negative Social Impact’ of scantily dressed models. In the West we’re very used to scantily clad beauties selling everything from toothpaste to cars. Especially cars, and especially at Motor Shows. But it seems that despite China’s renewed love affair with capitalism their […]
Aston Martin DB4GT Zagato Sanction II Coupé up for grabs at Bonhams sale
The Aston Martin sale at Newport Pagnell in May has one of the four Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato Sanction II Coupés ever built up for sale. The Ferrari 250 GTO may have shown the Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato a clean pair of heels on track and gone on to be perhaps the most expensive […]
Do you want a tiny James May running round your Smartphone?
If you fancy the idea of Top Gear’s James May teaching you science then a new App from the Science Museum is right up your street. Regular Top Gear viewers may remember Messrs Clarkson, May and Hammond taking on ‘Art’ a few seasons ago to teach Northerners how to appreciate galleries. Part of what they did – apart […]
Bentley Hunaudières: The Bentley that became a Bugatti
[nggallery id=1058 template=customlinks] Now seemingly forgotten, the Bentley Hunaudières Concept car from the 1999 Geneva Motor Show was the forerunner to the Bugatti Veyron. At the end of the 1990s Volkswagen embarked on a buying frenzy that would see them become makers of some of the world’s most desirable cars, acquiring Bentley, Bugatti and Lamborghini in the space […]
Ferrari Enzo abandoned in Dubai is NOT for sale
The Enzo Ferrari abandoned in Dubai for 18 months, and reportedly due to be auctioned off, is not being sold according to reports from the Emirates. The Interwebs have been full of an Enzo abandoned in Dubai and gathering dust being impounded by police and auctioned off this week. But we didn’t run the story. We’d been told by a contact […]