With the first BMW 1 Series M Coupe cars arriving in the UK this month, BMW UK has put together a promo video for our delight and delectation. Will BMW build a 1 series M car, we all wondered? And if they did, would it be the BMW M1. Surely not, we all concluded. You can’t wreck an iconic brand by […]
VW Polo R confirmed for 2013
Volkswagen Board Member has all but confirmed the quattro VW Polo R will be built and launch in 2013, to coincide with the launch of VW’s Polo WRC program We speculated a year ago that the Polo GTI wouldn’t be the top of the Polo tree, and that Volkswagon would roll out the VW Polo R in 2012, but perhaps […]
Saab go back for another Chinese
Saab has reached a deal with the Pang Da Automobile Trading Co in China for the sale of €30 million of Saab cars, joint ventures on sales and production and the sale of a 24% stake in Saab to Pangda. There can’t be many companies in China who haven’t had Victor Muller banging on their […]
Citroen DS3 Airflow (DS3 Convertibe) in 2013
It’s being reported that the Citroen DS3 convertible will arrive in 2013 with a Fiat 500-style sliding cloth roof and a new name – the Citroen DS3 AirFlow. As regular readers can’t have failed to notice over the last year or so, the Citroen DS3 is one of our favourite cars. In fact so good is the DS3 […]
Renault Clio Expression Eco: A perfect commuter car
Renault has launched the £250 Eco Pack for the Clio, making the Renault Clio Expression Eco the cheapest sub 100g/km supermini in the UK We hear so much about how electric cars make the perfect commuter car. They can manage to do a fifty or sixty mile round trip a day, don’t need a tax […]
McLaren MP4-12C: Fastest round the Top Gear track – EVER
It’s being reported that the McLaren MP4-12C has achieved the fastest ever time for a production road car round the Top Gear Test Track at Dunsfold in 1.14.1 With plenty of information now floating around on the performance of the McLaren MP4-12C, it’s pretty clear that most feel it to be a quite exceptional car. There do […]
2013 McLaren F1 – more details emerge
The next car in McLaren’s road car plan is the new McLaren F1 – which could be the McLaren 799 – due in 2013. More detail emerges. It’s more than two years since we revealed that McLaren are planning on building a McLaren F1 road car for the 21st century. Planned to bring game-changing performance […]
Skoda Fabia GreenLine does 127mpg in the hands of Gerhard Plattner
Austrian hyper-miler Gerhard Plattner has taken a Skoda Fabia GreenLine from Austria to Denmark and back again on a single 10 gallon tank at 127.8mpg. That rings a bell, we thought. A guy called Gerhard Plattner doing mega-miles in a Skoda. And then we remembered that two years ago the same guy managed to average 100mpg on […]
Mercedes G65 AMG with 600bhp V12 planned
It’s being reported that Mercedes-Benz are planning a Mercedes G65 AMG, with a 600bhp V12 and a price tag of €200k. Just 200 to be built. Just like the proverbial missing bus, you wait ages for one to come along and then two turn up together. In this case that’s two stories about the iconic (used with care) […]
Electric Renault Twizy to cost more than a car
Renault’s electric go-kart with a roof – the Renault Twizy – will cost from £6,990, plus an extra £40 a month to lease the batteries. What exactly is a Renault Twizy? It’s a fair enough question. Is it a miniature car? No, not really. A beefed-up motorcycle? No, it’s more than that. A tall go-kart with a roof? […]