Normal service resumed at Turkey with Vettel on pole and Webber riding shotgun. Did the McLarens – or the improving Ferraris – change that? What a difference a year makes. The 2010 Turkish Grand Prix was full of problems for Red Bull after Vettel and Webber collided, leading to Webber’s – seemingly justified – accusations […]
Electric Land Rover Defender Revealed
Land Rover in South Africa has worked with battery specialist Axeon to produce an electric Land Rover Defender for safari trips. We do tend to bang on about the only use for electric cars being as expensive runarounds in cities, or as toys to play with for the better off. After all, with useless range and sky-high […]
Lamborghini Sesto Elemento arrives in October
It’s being reported that the Lamborghini Sesto Elemento will be produced in very limited numbers, costs €1.9 million and arrives in October 2011. We did think that Lamborghini were going to reveal the LP700-4 at last year’s Paris Motor Show, especially after they let it be known they had a new supercar to reveal. But the new supercar wasn’t […]
Lexus LFA: First production LFA in the UK at Goodwood
The first production Lexus LFA are now turning up, with the first UK Lexus LFA making an appearance at the Goodwood Supercar Sunday Breakfast Club The Lexus LFA hasn’t had an easy gestation. Half a generation from the promise to the reality, and endless hiccups with lease and buy-back plans in the US – where Lexus initially refused to sell the LFA […]
Mercedes G-Class: BA3 Final Edition Swansong
With the SWB Mercedes G-Class about to stop production, Mercedes weighs in with a limited edition model – the Mercedes G350 BlueTEC BA3 Final Edition The word ‘Iconic’ is bandied around far too much when it comes to cars. We’re probably as guilty as the next pack of hacks of attaching iconic to anything that’s been around for a while. […]
Hyundai i40 Saloon European launch at Barcelona
Hyundai are to launch the saloon version of the European Hyundai i40 at the Barcelona Motor Show next week. It’s all been topsy–turvy, the launch of the Hyundai i40. Not only did most of the world get the i40/Sonata ahead of Europe, but they got a different car too. And then when Europe did get […]
Jaguar C-X75 being produced
Jaguar are to build the Jaguar C-X75 supercar with 500bhp electric motors and a 500bhp Williams F1 engine. Everybody said the Jaguar C-X75 turbine car we saw at Paris was a dream. No chance whatsoever of it making production. But they hadn’t counted on the ambitions of a resurgent Jaguar. Jaguar will announce this morning […]
Porsche Cayman S Black Edition completes the hat trick
Porsche has revealed the third in its range of Black Edition Sports Cars – the Porsche Cayman S Black Edition. On sale September from £50,420. It had to arrive soon, the Porsche Cayman S Black Edition. After all, we had the 911 Black Edition in January and the Boxster Black Edition a month later at […]
Vauxhall Insignia VXR Unlimited Option
Vauxhall has announced an ‘Unlimited Option’ for the Vauxhall Insignia VXR which removes the limiter and ups the top speed to 170mph. We like the Vauxhall Insignia; it’s a very good car. We like it even more in better-than-warm Vauxhall Insignia VRX guise, where this warmed-over rep-mobile manages to pick up its skirts and scoot […]
New De Tomaso Pantera, perhaps? +video
We have what appears to be a spy video of the new De Tomaso Pantera leaving the old Pininfarina factory in .Grugliasco Former Fiat man Gian Mario Rossignolo rescued the De Tomaso brand from the ignominy of bankruptcy in 2009, with plans to bring the world a range of 21st century De Tomasos. An idea, we […]