SEAT has added a new trim level above the FR on the Leon range. The SEAT Leon FR+ gets extra equipment including 18″ alloys and DAB radio. If you have a successful formula, it’s not a bad idea to make the most of it, although it can sometimes be hard to know what to do […]
Ford Fiesta “Centura” – 100 years of Ford UK
Ford UK have revealed a Limited Edition Fiesta – the Ford Fiesta Centura – to mark Ford’s centenary in the UK. 1,000 Centuras to be built. Ford isn’t a British company – even if many of us think of Ford as a patriotic buy – although they’ve been in the UK for 100 years. And […]
BMW i3 LWB and i8 Roadster planned; BMW i4 & i5 mooted
It’s reported that BMW are planning on a BMW i3 with a longer wheelbases, a roadster version of the i8 and two new i-cars – the BMW i4 and BMW i5. You didn’t really think that BMW would stop with just the BMW i3 City car and the BMW i8 supercar, did you? Surely not, […]
2012 Porsche 911 undisguised (almost) on Video
We have video of the 2012 Porsche 911 (911) taken at a petrol station in Germany with almost no disguise – except for the lights. It’s quite hard to find anything new to report about the 2012 Porsche 911 – at least on how it looks – when Porsche themselves release ‘spy’ video of the new 911. […]
2012 Focus ST at Frankfurt. Or could it be the 2013 Focus RS Concept?
Ford are promising a performance Focus at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show. We’re assuming it’s a production-ready Focus ST, but could it be the 2013 Focus RS Concept? As the Frankfurt Motor Show looms closer, car makers are starting to reveal and tease their plans, and Ford sent us a press release this week promising […]
2012 Lotus Exige V6 Spied
The 2012 Lotus Exige will trade up its engine to the V6 from the Evora, as Lotus moves the Exige upmarket to meet the next generation of Lotus cars. We’ve reported, sometimes cynically, on Dany Bahar’s plans for Lotus. And some do seem to be a bit less than credible, certainly when you factor in […]
Toyota to build Tesla-powered RAV4 EV in Canada
Toyota has confirmed that the RAV4 EV will go in to production at the Toyota plant in Woodstock, Ontario. There was a bit of a kerfuffle last month when a Toyota man went on record to say that Toyota would not be making an electric RAV4 that you and I could buy and that instead the […]
Pagani Huayra on sale in the U.S.? We don’t think so.
We’ve been hearing for some time that the Pagani Huayra is nowhere near ready to be federalised. Will the Pagani Huayra ever be legal in the U.S.? We don’t think so. When Horacio Pagani presented the Pagani Huayra to the world, the world let out a collective Gallic shrug. What was this generic supercar from […]
BMW X3 xDrive35d & xDrive20i revealed: UK gets X3 xDrive35d
BMW has announced the entry-level X3 xDrive20i and range-topping X3 xDrive35d. But the UK will only get the X3 xDrive35d. Update: UK specs and prices added at the bottom – thanks BMW UK. The new BMW X3 is turning in to something of a star for BMW, as we discovered when we recently reviewed the latest X3, but the […]
2013 Focus RS with 380bhp confirmed
Ford’s Global Small Car Boss, Gunnar Herrmann, has confirmed the next generation 2013 Ford Focus RS will arrive with up to 380bhp. We never really had any doubt that Ford would produce an RS version of the new Focus. Although we did think that the 2012 Focus RS would come with a hybrid setup giving 4WD. […]