Happy New Year to all Cars UK readers, and a look back at the top car news stories – month by month – of 2011. It’s the first day of 2012, so it seems like a good time to look back at the top car news stories of 2011. Instead of looking at the most […]
Toyota Yaris Review and Road Test: SR 5 Door 1.33 (2011 / 2012)
We spend a week with the Toyota Yaris SR 1.33 5 door for a review and road test. Is it the big jump on from the old Yaris Toyota promise? The Toyota Yaris has been a big sales success for Toyota in the UK, with more than 300,000 running around on UK roads since it launched back […]
Land Rover cuts short Christmas break to cope with demand
After a boom year for sales at Land Rover, workers have been brought back from their Christmas New Year break early to cope with demand. 2011 has been a remarkable year for Land Rover. Perhaps the greatest achievement is to take the underpinnings of the Freelander 2 – a good car, but not the top of the […]
Top Gear India Special offends – as planned
The BBC has received complaints about the Top Gear Christmas Special in India, claiming ‘Racist Insults’. Which is par for the course. We’d understand people complaining that the Top Gear Christmas Special from India, broadcast on 28th December, was a notch or two below par. Feeble in parts, formulaic and far from the best bit of entertainment to […]
MINI Cargo – the Mini Van is back
BMW are set to revive the Mini Van, with a MINI Clubman based MINI Cargo debuting at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show. We’ve got the regular MINI and the MINI Clubman. We’ve got the MINI Coupe and the MINI Roadster. We’ve even got the overgrown MINI Countryman SUV. So what’s missing? A MINI Van, of […]
Opel / Vauxhall Insignia Sports Tourer Crossfour revealed
Opel / Vauxhall are planning a competitor to the Audi Allroad with a high-riding version of the Insignia Sports Tourer CrossFour. Audi have had the butched-up estate market pretty much all to itself for a long time with the Allroad, but hot on the heels of theVW Passat Alltrack we now look like we’re about to get […]
Saab: Is India’s Mahindra in the hunt for bankrupt Saab?
It’s reported that a representative of a ‘Large Indian Car Maker’ has been rebuffed by the Saab receivers. Victor Muller finally gave up the task of trying to keep Saab in business just before Christmas and filed for bankruptcy. Now, the task of finding a buyer for Saab is in the hands of the receivers, […]
Hyundai Veloster Race Game in Times Square (video)
Hyundai has set up their LED screen in New York’s Times Square so passers-by can play a race game from an iPhone app. You’ve got to hand it to Hyundai – they certainly know how to raise awareness and hit the Zeitgeist. From the modern day equivalent of Lada and Yugo to a serious threat to […]
2012 Lada Granta could see Lada return to the UK
Lada reveals their new car – the Lada Granta, based on the Kalina hatchback – which could see Lada return to the UK. For those old enough to remember, Lada was once renowned as the maker of skips on wheels, in such illustrious company as Skoda, Yugo and Moskvitch. Yugo has bitten the dust, as has […]
2012 Toyota Land Cruiser V8 revealed
Toyota has revealed the facelift for the 2012 Land Cruiser V8 in Japan. The European version will debut in Brussels next month. Just to be clear, it’s the Toyota Land Cruiser V8 that’s had a facelift and appeared in Japan, not the smaller Land Cruiser we also have in the UK (which gets called the Land Cruiser […]