The Swedish Debt Office has agreed to Saab selling assets and leasing back to ease their liquidity problems. The source of the finance is Vladimir Antonov. It was always an odd move by GM, or the Swedish Government, or whoever it was that decided the deal for Spyker to buy Saab could only go through […]
Volvo Concept Universe teased. Is this the Volvo S90?
Volvo has released a video teasing the Volvo Concept Universe, which we expect to launch at the Shanghai Motor Show next week. As you really can’t have failed to notice, we have two major motor shows looming – the 2011 New York Motor Show and the 2011 Shanghai Motor Show. Both are vying to host […]
Saab 9-2 to use MINI platform – if Saab survives
Saab is still trying to find a solution to its liquidity problems, and reports that the Saab 9-2 will use the current MINI platform. Things are still torrid for Saab, with big lumps of downtime at Trollhattan as they struggle to get suppliers to deliver parts when those same suppliers are already owed big chunks of money. The […]
Sebastian Vettel keeps Infiniti happy
Sebastian Vettel has been doing the ‘Keep the Sponsor’ happy day in Shanghai by driving an Infiniti round a track and bigging-up Infiniti in general. It must be a dream lifestyle for any 23 year old man. Driving fast cars in glamorous locations, and being paid a shed-load of money to do it. True, the […]
Volvos get a facelift: V70, XC70 & S80 get tweaked
Volvo has been Spring cleaning and has facelifted and tweaked the Volvo V70, Volvo XC70 & Volvo S80 with engine tweaks and cosmetic updates Well, if you’re going to have a fiddle with one car, you may as well have a fiddle with three. That seems to be Volvo’s point of view as it performs a bit […]
Peugeot SXC crossover concept Shanghai debut
Peugeot reveals the ‘Made for China’ & ‘Designed in China’ Peugeot SXC Crossover Concept, a very appealing Concept due to debut at the Shanghai Motor Show It brings home how important – actually, crucial – the car market in China has become when you learn that car makers are building cars specifically for the Chinese […]
Audi Q3: Driving and walk-round video
Having seen the reveal of the Audi Q3 yesterday ahead of a launch at Shanghai next week, we now have a Q3 video to go with the photo gallery. It was a very long time coming, but Audi managed to deliver up information and photos on the Q3 yesterday ahead of a launch at the […]
Lexus LF-Gh Concept video preview
We can’t make our mind up if we like the look of the Lexus LF-Gh Concept – the likely 2012 Lexus GS. So we’ve grabbed a video for a proper look. Lexus teased us with the LF-Gh Concept ahead of its debut at the New York Motor Show this month, and this week dropped a […]
Citroen DS5 – the tease begins
Citroen has started the tease for the next instalment in the DS Range – the Citroen DS5 – which will launch at the Shanghai Motor Show. Yet another new car being teased in the run up to the Shanghai Motor Show, and this time it’s instalment number three in the new Citroen DS range – […]
MINI Inspired by Goodwood: The MINI Rolls Royce arrives
MINI has revealed the MINI Inspired by Goodwood, a ‘bespoke’ MINI with Rolls Royce levels of kit and debuting at Shanghai. Expect it to cost around £50k The MINI by Rolls Royce has been coming for a long time. We first spied the Rolls Royce MINI back in 2009 and even then we were told it would […]