Hyundai has announced the price of its i40 Estate – the Hyundai i40 Tourer – which will cost from £18,395 when it hits UK showrooms in September. Yes, it’s the long-awaited prices for the Hyundai 140 Estate – or the trendy ‘Hyundai i40 Tourer‘ which Hyundai prefers – which is to be the first i40 to hit UK […]
Volvo Flywheel KERS hybrid on the way
Volvo will begin trialing a lightweight Flywheel KERS system later in 2011, which promises to increase performance, reduce consumption and be cost-effective to. Volvo looks like it’s making a big jump ahead in the ongoing battle to make cars more economical, with plans to roll out a Hybrid Flywheel KERS system to boost performance and cut fuel […]
Audi A1 Clubsport Quattro with 496bhp at Worthersee
Audi is taking the Audi A1 Clubsport quattro to this year’s Worthersee Tour, which features 496bhp and the oily bits from the TT-RS It’s Wörthersee Tour 2011 time – heaven on earth for VW Group nutters – and this year Audi has put together a very warm A1 with 496bhp – the Audi A1 Clubsport Quattro […]
Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster: Video of the new SLS soft-top
We have video of the Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster, and to our eyes it is much more appealing than the SLS Gullwing Coupe. With all the stories and photos we’ve run on the Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster, it feels like it’s been here for ages. But it hasn’t. In fact, we think, this is the first video we’ve […]
Porsche 911 Turbo S China 10th Anniversary Edition revealed
Porsche are celebrating 10 years in China with the Porsche 911 Turbo S China 10th Anniversary Edition, with lots of gold paint and Alcantara. It must have seemed a slightly optimistic decision when Porsche decided to make its mark in China in 2001 by opening a Porsche Center in Beijing, But it turned out to be a stroke of genius. China […]
Land Rover start Freelander assembly in India – Engine Plant to follow?
JLR has opened an assembly plant in Pune, India to assemble UK produced Freelander 2 CKD kits. And it seems this could be followed by a new engine plant in Pune We reported last year that Land Rover were going to start building Freelanders in India this year. Well, bolting them together from CKD (Complete Knock Down) imported […]
Monaco Grand Prix (2011) RESULT
The Monaco Grand Prix is usually a procession, so with Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel on Pole and Jensen Button in second, is that how F1’s most glamorous race will end? Far from being a long line of very expensive F1 cars following each other round the streets of the Grimaldi Empire, the 2011 Monaco Grand […]
Tesla Model X Crossover reveal and Roadster dropped by year end
Tesla has revealed that they will reveal a prototype of the Tesla Model X Crossover and end production of the Tesla Roadster by the end of 2011. And sell another 5.3 million shares. We revealed back in November that Tesla intends using the Model S platform to produce a Crossover come SUV to appeal to […]
Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster revealed ahead of Frankfurt
Despite the Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster not being due to launch until the Frankfurt Motor Show in September, Mercedes has issued official photos. You might have thought that the photos of the Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster we published a couple of weeks back were the official reveal of the soft-top SLS. But you’d be wrong. Those […]
Saab production restarts – again.
Production has restarted at Saab’s Trollhättan factory after the troubled Swedish car maker finally got its hands on some much-needed Chinese cash from Pang Da. Of course, we nearly got here before when Saab went courting China’s Hawtai Motor Group, but that deal fell apart when the Chinese government refused to sanction the deal. Or Hawtai pulled out. Depending on […]