Sir Stirling Moss, OBE, is to retire from racing after a career spanning more than sixty years. It had to come eventually – Sir Stirling Moss retiring from motor racing – but it felt like the best driver England has ever produced could go on for ever. Stirling Moss won sixteen Grands Prix in his career […]
Subaru WRX STI beats Tony Pond’s Isle of Man lap record
A standard Subaru WRX STI has taken the 21 year old record for driving the Isle of Man TT Circuit. Mark Higgins did it in 19:56.7, at an average 113mph. Tony Pond was a rally driver in the 1970s and ’80s, and he was rather good. Good enough to give the likes of Jimmy McRae a spanking […]
Skoda Octavia vRS to hit 200mph at Bonneville
Skoda is taking a Skoda Octavia vRS off to Bonneville Speed Week to compete in the 2.0 litre production car category. They expect to top 200mph. Skoda has come a very long way since Volkswagen rescued it from the ignominy of the communist era, and restored the pride to the Czech car maker. But even though the Skoda of today […]
BMW 1 Series M Coupé Vs Concrete Walls Video
BMW Canada has put together a video featuring the BMW 1-Series M Coupe playing ‘Hole in the Wall’ on a deserted desert runway. Worth watching. The BMW 1 Series M Coupe is a car many thought wouldn’t be built. But it was. It was because BMW could, and because it fills another performance niche. Of course, it comes at […]
BMW to invest £500 million in UK MINI production
BMW has announced it is to invest a further £500 million in the UK over the next three years to build the next generation MINI. What’s going on? Two days on the trot we get good news about the UK economy. Yesterday we reported that Nissan are to invest £192 million to design and build […]
Fancy taking a Volvo up the Goodwood hillclimb?
Volvo are offering the chance for you to win a pair of tickets to attend this years Moving Motor Show at Goodwood and drive a Volvo up the Goodwood hillclimb Last year saw the Goodwood Festival of Speed open a day early for a car manufacturers preview day, a day which quickly became dubbed the ‘Moving Motor […]
2012 BMW 1-Series: The Marketing begins +video
BMW has put together a marketing video for the 2012 BMW 1-Series featuring a pair of brothers who are so dissimilar they would never have the same car. The 2012 BMW 1-Series made its debut over the weekend, with lots of details on the thoroughly refreshed, higher quality and bigger BMW 1 Series. Not only did we get details on the new […]
New Nissan Qashqai to be designed & built in the UK
Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn has announced a £192 million investment to design, engineer and build the next generation Nissan Qashqai in the UK. The Nissan Qashqai created the crossover niche almost single-handedly, and has gone on to be Nissan’s best-selling model. Now in its facelifted iteration, the Qashqai has been a huge money-spinner for Nissan. […]
Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster Configurator Live
Mercedes has revealed a configurator for the Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster where you can configure your perfect car and even play with the throttle. This last month, and in particular the last ten days, the Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster has cropped up here on an almost daily basis. We got the first official – but slightly disguised – […]
New Mercedes ML (2012) Revealed
We have the first photos of the 2012 Mercedes ML, a year before its launch. Expect quality improvement, a 4-pot ML250 and a hybrid ML300. The imminent demise of the big SUV has been predicted by the hair-shirt-wearing, green halo brigade for years, but cars like the new 2012 Mercedes ML are like every successful creation – they evolve […]