The first Audi Q3 has rolled off the production line today in Martorell, Spain the first of 100,000 a year. First UK deliveries in November. The Audi Q3 is the latest niche-filler from Audi, another soft-roader to mop up the seemingly endless queue of buyers wanting something high-riding and rufty-tufty. And if that high-riding something that’s a little rufty-tufty just […]
Aston Martin Rapide coming home
Aston Martin are moving production of the Aston Martin Rapide from Magna Steyr in Austria back to Gaydon in 2012 It took Aston Martin what seemed like forever to get their four-door supercar – the Aston Martin Rapide – in to production, and even then they didn’t build it themselves. When they were busy planning […]
Vauxhall Astra GTC revealed: Prices & Models
The Vauxhall Astra GTC gets revealed (for the umpteenth time) together with price and model details. On sale now from £18,495. Vauxhall has certainly got some mileage out of the launch of the 2012 Vauxhall Astra GTC. As has Opel for the launch of their differently badge version of GM’s Euro-hot-hatch, designed to take on the […]
50 Jaguar E-Types in convoy through London
The Jaguar E-Type took to the streets of London in force today, with 50 E-Types in Convoy driving through the capital to Motorexpo 2011 in Canary Wharf. This isn’t the first story we’ve run this year with ’50’ and Jaguar E-Type in the headline, and it’s a safe bet won’t be the last either. Unless you’ve been in Motoring purdah for the whole of […]
2012 MINI Coupe arrives – in camouflage
MINI has revealed the 2012 MINI Coupe – complete with residual camouflage – ahead of a debut at Frankfurt. We were going to say that the 2012 MINi Coupe had been revealed. But as MINI has decided, for reasons we fail to fathom, they should reveal it with camouflage we thought it would be a […]
Ford B-Max to get 1.0 litre 3-cylinder EcoBoost
Ford has revealed a new 3-Cylinder 1.0 litre EcoBoost engine which will debut in the 2012 Ford B-Max. Reports of the imminent demise of the internal combustion engine have been greatly exaggerated. There’s plenty of life left in old technology yet, certainly enough to throw a spanner in to the benefits of hybrids and BEVs. And if […]
Tesla Model S turns in to Jaguar XF
The Tesla Model S is now in what Tesla call its ‘Alpha’ phase – and on the way to production on 2012 – and seems to have morphed in to the Jaguar XF. Tesla seem convinced – or at least they’re doing all they can to convince the public – that the Tesla Model S […]
F1: Bahrain Grand Prix back on – India Grand Prix now in December
The FIA’s World Motor Sport Council has reinstated the Bahrain Grand Prix on 30th October, moving the Indian Grand Prix to December. The start of the F1 Circus this year was put back after the Arab Spring made the Gulf Kindom of Bahrain a less than suitable venue for something as frivolous as Formula One, leading to […]
2012 BMW 1-Series – it’s official
Just 24 hours from the leak of the 2012 BMW 1-Series, BMW manage to release official details of the new 1-Series, and a stack of photos. When we reported that the 2012 BMW 1 Series had leaked out yesterday, we did say it wouldn’t take long for BMW to release details officially, especially as there […]
Volvo P1800 turns 50
The Volvo P1800 hits 50 this year, so we look back at its history – notably as Roger Moore’s car in The Saint – and put together a gallery of photos. For those of us old enough to think in black and white, the Volvo P1800 conjures up long-forgotten images of The Saint and Roger […]