According to a study by the British Journal of Sports Medicine, watching TV shows like Top Gear is worse for your health than smoking. According to a study published by the British Journal of Sports Medicine, watching TV – yes, that means even Top Gear – is more detrimental to your health than smoking. The barking mad […]
Skoda Octavia vRS breaks 200 mph at Bonneville
A slightly modified Skoda Octavia vRS has broken the 200mph barrier at Bonneville Salt Flats, driven by EVO journo Richard Meaden. You can tell just how far Skoda has come from its days as makers of mobile skips when they can justify going out to play at the Bonneville Salt Flats with a Skoda Octavia […]
New Hyundai i20 Blue – just 98g/km CO2
Hyundai has revealed their eco-warrior i20 – the Hyundai i20 Blue – which emits just 98g/km CO2. On sale now at £13,195. With a keen eye for where the market moves, Hyundai has done much right of late and very little wrong. And another example of something right is the new Hyundai i20 Blue, a perfect […]
Lotus Evora GTE Road Car Concept heading to Pebble Beach
Lotus reveals a single photo of the Lotus Evora GTE Road Car Concept, perhaps the ultimate Evora, which will debut at Pebble Beach. Lotus has taken away the Exige from its American customers with the Exige Matte Black Final Edition heralding the end, but is planning on giving back something a bit meatier at Pebble Beach […]
Aston Martin One-77 & V12 Zagato Monterey Debuts – sort of.
Aston Martin has revealed it will be debuting the One-77 & V12 Zagato at Monterey this month. The world and his dog takes their supecars – new and classic – to Monterey in August, making it a wonderful place for petrolheads to be. Which explains why AM has decided it will give a US debut to the Aston […]
New Kia Picanto 3-door (2011) arrives
Kia reveals the 3-door Kia Picanto, a sporty take on the new Picanto. From under £8k, congestion-charge exempt and 67mpg. The Kia Picanto of old was a dreary little thing, best thought of as disposable motoring flotsam; so cheap you could throw it away when you’d finished with it. But the new Kia Picanto – […]
Bugatti Veyron – Eight Veyrons sold to one buyer
Bugatti CEO Wolfgang Dürheimer has confessed that one wealthy Bugatti customer from the Middle East has bought 8 Bugatti Veyrons. However wealthy you are it’s hard to imagine spending more than £1 million on a new car; a classic, certainly, but a new car with all that depreciation? No, thanks. But that’s really just the […]
Jaguar XJ Convertible. Really.
Newport Convertible Engineering has chopped the top of the Jaguar XJ and delivered a Jaguar XJ Convertible. The conversion costs £30,000. You do have to ask yourself if the world wants a Jaguar XJ Convertible. Not just an XJ Convertible, but a long wheelbase XJ Convertible. Instinct says no, a convertible XJ is a bad idea. But […]
The biggest James Bond car exhibition…in the world!
To celebrate fifty years of James Bond films, EON Productions and Beaulieu National Motor Museum are having a huge exhibition of 50 of the Bond cars. Nothing has defined the James Bond franchise – the film franchise, that is – in quite the same way as its cars. So what better way than to have […]
Infiniti JX Tease – we made it to the end!
Infiniti has revealed the last in their teaser images of the JX – this time the front three quarters. All the bits together will be at Pebble Beach next week. We bit the bullet when Infiniti got to tease two of the Infiniti JX Concept, and we’ve managed to stick with it all the way through until […]