It looks as if Aston Martin Rapide sales are running at half those Aston expected, with predictions they could fall as low as 500 cars a year. It took AML an age to get the Aston Martin Rapide to market, but they eventually managed it and the first customer Rapide finally left Magna Steyr in May 2010. […]
Ferrari FF: UK debut at Goodwood FoS
Ferrari are taking the Ferrari FF to the 2011 Goodwood Festival of Speed for its UK debut, together with a Ferrari F1, 458, California and classic Ferraris. There has probably not been a car in Ferrari’s history that has polarised opinion in quite the same way as the Ferrari FF. Launched at Geneva in the […]
2012 BMW M5: Now BMW make the M5 official
BMW has officially revealed the 2012 BMW M5 with details, a HUGE photo gallery and a price – £73,040 The launch of the 2012 BMW M5 was planned for next week at the M Festival at the Nurburgring. But the best laid plans… This morning we reported on a leak of official photos of the […]
Volkswagen Beetle R: Frankfurt debut planned?
It’s reported that Volkswagen are planning on building a 2012 Beetle R with a detuned version of the Golf R engine. Due to debut at Frankfurt 2011. However hard they tried – and they did for a while – Volkswagen never managed to make the reborn VW Beetle anything more than a novelty; a girly car with a […]
2012 Toyota Yaris: New European Yaris revealed
The 2012 Toyota Yaris has been revealed with sharper looks, a revised interior and new instruments. No one can argue that Toyota hasn’t given us plenty of notice of the 2012 Toyota Yaris. They have. All we had to do was take a look at the new Toyota Vitz that was revealed by Toyota at the end of […]
2012 BMW M5: Official Photos leak
We receive a batch of 35 official photos of the 2012 BMW M5 ahead of an official reveal due next week at the BMW M Festival at the Nurburgring. Actually, it’s not the first time we’ve had a leak of photos of the 2012 BMW M5. Back in April – after a private BMW event to show […]
Jaguar R-S Range to grow – XKR-S Convertible, XJR & XFR-S planned
Jaguar are extending their R-S performance models, with 542bhp R-S versions in the XKR-S Convertible, XFR-S and an R-S version of the XJ. It’s been a while since we played the speculation game with Jaguar, so it’s due. The last punt we had after a tip-off – apart from the XF 2.2 diesel Jaguar denied when we […]
Volvo to give away S60 on Facebook
Volvo UK are running a ‘Greatest Drives’ competition on Facebook with the winner receiving a new Volvo S60. It seems that Volvo UK are very keen to get their Social Web stuff buzzing. Last week we reported that Volvo were giving away tickets for the Goodwood Moving Motor Show, including the chance to drive a […]
Maybach, or not Maybach? That is the question.
A partnership between Aston Martin and Mercedes looks likely, with Aston Martin to be taxed with designing and building the next generation Maybach. Actually, whether to keep Maybach on the Daimler life support system is a question that has taxed the brains of many a Mercedes exec, almost since the Maybach brand got its revival […]
Mugen Honda CR-Z Hybrid Video ahead of Goodwood
Honda has released video of the Mugen Honda CR-Z out playing ahead of a public reveal at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in a few weeks. We reported back in April that Honda had turned to Mugen to see if they could inject anything in to the CR-Z Hybrid that might make it even remotely […]