Team Lotus – in the guise of Tony Fernandes – has snapped up Caterham cars, bringing the link to Colin Chapman’s Lotus full circle. Team Lotus – that’s the ‘Lotus’ F1 run by Tony Fernandes, not the Hethel mob run by Dany Bahar – has bought Caterham Cars from Corven Ventures for an undisclosed sum. Which is […]
Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0 arrives
Porsche has built the ultimate 911 racer for the road – the Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0 – with 45bhp more than the track-only RSR and a price tag around £150k. Yes, we have more than enough on the Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0 to know it’s for real, but Porsche hasn’t yet chosen to make […]
Ferrari servicing FREE for 7 years
Ferrari has introduced the Ferrari Genuine Maintenance Programme, which includes free servicing – with parts and labour – for 7 years on new Ferraris. There’s nothing more irritating than shelling out a few hundred grand on a car and then having to save up to get it serviced. Or so Ferrari believe. So they’ve solved that […]
Vauxhall Astra GTC 2011 / 2012 revealed
Vauxhall has revealed the first photo of the 3-door Vauxhall Astra GTC. Full reveal is on 7th June and the public debut is at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September. Actually, we’re not sure we should really have called this a reveal of the new Vauxhall Astra GTC. It’s more the reveal of the production version of […]
Geely at Shanghai 2011: Geely MINI Cooper & Geely London Taxi
Geely pays homage to British icons at Shanghai 2011. Geely Emgrand EC6-RV is a MINI Cooper by another name, & the Geely Englon SC7-RV is a civilian London Taxi. Regular readers – in fact anyone who takes notice of car news – will probably recognise Geely as being the Chinese car maker who bought Volvo […]
Lexus CT 200h by Fox Marketing gets 300bhp
The Lexus CT 200h by Fox Marketing has debuted at the new York Motor Show, complete with Eaton Supercharger, wide body and 300bhp. You may recall, at the end of last month, we reported on the Lexus CT 200h by Fox Marketing, a pimped and tarted Lexus CT 200h which was going to feature a […]
Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4: The Commercial
Lamborghini travels back to the 1980s to produce an advert for the Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4, featuring much power and drama. There was a time in the dim and distant past (well, the 1980s) when advertising cars was easy – you just made them look as dramatic as possible and hoped viewers would think that buying […]
Kia Soul Facelift: New York catch-up
Kia has given the Kia Soul a nip and tuck for 2011/2012, with a new, more powerful, direct-injection 1.6 litre petrol lump and some cosmetic tweaks. As the car world seems to become more corporate and bland with every year that passes, truly ‘Marmite’ cars get fewer and fewer. But one car that is still […]
2012 Mercedes E63 AMG gets Twin-Turbo 5.5-Litre V8: New York 2011 Catch-up
Mercedes has given the 2012 E63 AMG a heart transplant with the new 5.5 litre twin-turbo V8. All the better to take on the new M5. And the Jaguar XKR-S It’s always the same; however hard we try there’s always something of proper interest that slips through the net when there’s a motor show on, […]
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) planning UK engine plant
It’s reported that Jaguar Land Rover are planning to build a new engine plant to cope with increased demand. Sites being considered are Wolverhampton, South Wales and India. We’ve known for a while that Jaguar Land Rover are planning to build their own engines. At least the four-pot variety, anyway. But it seems they have far more […]