The Ford Fiesta Sport Special Edition launches offering matt black paintwork, leather trim and a diesel or petrol option. Another day, another Fiesta limited edition, this time the Ford Fiesta Sport Special Edition. Must have taken forever to come up with that name. This is the follow on from the Fiesta 1600S – which other parts of Europe got […]
E-Type Jag is the nation’s favourite sports car
In a far from surprising result, the E-Type Jaguar has been voted Britain’s favourite sports car of all time. You may remember we reported a few weeks back that the organisers of the Silverstone Classic were running a poll to find out the nation’s favourite sports car of all time. The ‘nominees’ left a little to […]
MINI JCW Roadster rides the ‘Ring
We have a spy photo of the MINI JCW Roadster pounding round the Nurburgring ahead of an imminent production model reveal – at Frankfurt or maybe sooner. Now we’ve got the MINI Coupe out in the open, with and without its swirly black and white camouflage, it must be close to MINI doing the same with the […]
CPP buys Zagato
In a further acquisition, specialist car builder CPP (Coventry Prototype Panels) has acquired Milanese Car Design House Zagato for an undisclosed sum. In a move that seems to have received no coverage whatsoever, our favourite specialist car putter-together – CPP (Coventry Prototype Panels as was) – has quietly bought up Zagato. For those of you who are ‘Vlad Watchers’ this may […]
Citroen DS3 in the Pink
Citroen are celebrating selling 100,000 DS3s – 10,000 of them in the UK – with new colour options, including a Fuchsia Pink Roof. We love the Citroen DS3; it’s the best car in its sector by a surprisingly long way, and winner of our ‘Best car if you’re paying for it Yourself‘ Award. It’s also Top Gear and Fifth Gear’s favourite […]
Williams & Renault back together in F1
Williams F1 are to revisit their partrnership with Renault, with the French company supplying engines for Williams starting in 2012. For those of us who enjoy F1 (on the whole – although races like Canada rather than Valencia, it as to be said) but are very slightly past the first flush of youth, it’s rather sad to see […]
Aston Martin V12 Zagato: The number will NOT be 150
Despite reports today stating that AM are going to build 150 Aston Martin V12 Zagato, we’re sure the number will be less – probably 89 or 99. We’ve had an email or three in this morning asking if the story that Aston Martin will be building 150 V12 Zagatos is true. It’s not. Or at least it’s not according […]
Chris Evans’ Magnificent Seven Ferraris at Goodwood FoS
Chris Evans and the ‘Magnificent Seven’ Ferraris – raising money for BBC Children in Need – arrived at Goodwood Festival of Speed and ran the hillclimb. Every year the Ginger Ferrarista, otherwise known as DJ Chris Evans, relieves a number of comfortably-off people of ludicrous sums of money to drive a selection of glorious Ferraris. It’s all […]
Range Rover Evoque production starts
The first production Range Rover Evoque has rolled off the Land Rover line at Halewood. Land Rover already has 18,000 advance orders for the Evoque. You could be forgiven for thinking that the Range Rover Evoque was already in production. But you’d be wrong. The apparent plethora of Evoques which have turned up at every car event […]
Goodwood Festival of Speed 2011 roundup & HUGE photo gallery
A look at the Goodwood Festival of Speed 2011, celebrating 50 years of the E-Type, with a huge PHOTO gallery of the weekend. It’s really quite hard to convey just how enjoyable the Goodwood Festival of Speed is to those who’ve never been. John waxed lyrical over the weekend (someone has to do the weekend […]