Jaguar engineer Andrew Whyman has confirmed that the Jaguar XF Estate is coming and that it will be “…different, with character and panache.” We’ve been expecting Jaguar to expand the XF range by bringing to market the Jaguar XF Estate for at least the last two years. But so far they’ve resisted. Jaguar has confessed that it is […]
Saab gets China cash – plans Saab 9-1, 9-6 and 9-7
Saab has revealed a binding agreement worth €245 million with Chinese companies Youngman and Pang Da for joint production and distribution in China. You’ve got to hand it to Victor Muller – he really is the master of fundraising. With seemingly all the promise for potential investors of a chocolate teapot, Victor has managed to move pushing […]
Volvo PCP Performance Division planned on the back of rising sales
Volvo are planning a performance division – PCP (Performance Concept Prototype) – to sell performance Volvos sorted by Swedish tuners Polestar. You’re not a serious player in the desirable saloon car stakes unless you have a performance division. BMW has the M Division and Mercedes has AMG; even VW has swapped out its Volkswagen Individual in to a division […]
China builds world’s longest sea bridge (video)
China has opened the Qindao Jiaozhou Bay Bridge – the world’s longest sea crossing bridge – between Qingadao and Huangdao, after 4 years and £1.4 billion. We’ve got some decent bridges in the UK. Some are pretty – Tower Bridge – and some are more practical, like the Queen Elizabeth II Dartford crossing. Some of our bridges even […]
2010 Ferrari F1 Goodwood hillcimb (video)
We have video of Marc Gene driving last year’s Ferrari F1 (F10) car up the hillclimb at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Goodwood is Disneyland for petrolheads, with the world’s greatest cars and greatest drivers wallowing in three days of high-octane worship at the alter of the internal combustion engine. Everything from classic road cars […]
Aston Martin V12 Zagato confirmed for limited production
Aston Martin has revealed – seemingly inadvertently – that the V12 Zagato is to go in to Limited Production. What a shock. It didn’t take a genius to work out that the Aston Martin V12 Zagato would not just be incarnated as the Zig and Zag cars for the Nurburgring, but as a proper production car. Not […]
Top Gear: McLaren MP4-12C, Hot Hatches in Monaco & Italy & Ross Noble
Episode 2, series 17 of Top Gear kicks off tomorrow night on BBC2 with hot hatches in Italy, the McLaren MP4-12C and Ross Noble as SIARPC. Update 4/7/2011: No, we don’t know what happened to Jeremy’s McLaren MP4-12C piece either. The BBC told us it was on, but instead we got James May and the […]
Twingo Renaultsport 133 & Clio Renaultsport 200 ‘Silverstone GP’ Limited Editions launched
Renault cash-in on next week’s Silverstone GP with a Limited Edition (50 each) Twingo Renaultsport 133 ‘Silverstone GP’ and Clio Renaultsport 200 Silverstone GP. ‘Now what moniker can we hang on the back of a Renaultsport Twingo and Renaultsport Clio to get our British customers to part with their hard-earned?’, the man from Renault was heard to […]
Bentley: Best sales since 2008
Bentley are reporting their best start to sales since 2008, with sales up 20% in the first six months of 2011 to 2978 cars. With all the gloom and doom around, from the Greek economy to public sector strikes to Libya, you’d be forgiven for expecting sales of luxury goods to be terrible. But you’d be wrong. The rich of […]
Koenigsegg Agera at Goodwood: Up close and personal
The only Koenigsegg Agera in the UK was at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, and we got an opportunity to have a good look round. We have to confess that we have a huge soft spot for the creations of Christian von Koenigsegg. So when we knew that friend of Cars UK Tommy Wareham, purveyor […]