BMW’s Chinese partner Brilliance is to launch a BMW X1 lookalike at the Shanghai Motor Show in April – the Brilliance A3 The easy headline would be ‘Brilliance A3 – BMW X1 Clone’. But that would be a little unfair to Brilliance. Western car makers – as we’ve mentioned many times before – are compelled […]
Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster: New York debut
It now seems clear that the Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster will be revealed at the 2011 New York Motor Show in April. It’s been quite a long time coming, the Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster. The Mercedes SLS AMG Coupe made its debut at Frankfurt in 2009, complete with Gullwing doors and a two-fingered salute to McLaren. And […]
2012 BMW 3-Series: Is this the 2012 3-Series in a Death Valley video from BMW?
BMW take their cars to Death Valley hot weather testing. And they take their video cameras. But have they accidentally shot the 2012 BMW 3 Series in the process? Car makers go to extraordinary lengths to make sure their cars can perform everywhere, from the coldest places one earth to the hottest. We’ve recently been almost bombarded […]
Toyota FT-86: The Glitz +video
Toyota is still dragging out the Toyota FT-86 Concept, and now we get some all new studio photos of the FT-86 MK II and a video of the photo shoot. It really has been dragging on for far too long. The Toyota FT-86, that is. October 2009 was when we first ran a story about the Toyota […]
BMW 3 Series GT Spied
We have a spy shot of the BMW 3-Series GT which is likely to launch at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September, together with the new 2012 BMW 3-Series. I can’t say we’ve really laid awake at night thinking about it, but the reveal of the BMW 3 Series GT must be getting close. As, […]
CAR prangs Ferrari FF
CAR Magazine reporter Jethro Bovindon ran out of talent whilst testing a new Ferrari FF in Italy and managed to write-off a couple of alloys. Whoops. It’s happened to us all on a car review, but not necessarily whilst piloting a £230k Ferrari FF. Ferrari has been hosting a playday in Italy for print media […]
Saab’s Jan Åke Jonsson retires, 2010 earnings & deals in Russia & China
Saab boss Jan Åke Jonsson is to step down in May, Saab appoints distributors in China & Russia and reports losses of €140 million for 2010 It’s been a difficult period at Saab, what with trying to survive as GM came close to closing the Swedish car maker down in the absence of a ‘suitable’ buyer, […]
Pagani Huayra Roadster planned
Horacio Pagani has revealed to Autoblog Argentina that there will be a Pagani Huayra Roadster available by 2014. We had so many stories on the Pagani Huayra through January and February we began to wonder if there were any angles left to cover. From the first teases on the Huayra from Pagani to our world-exclusive […]
India turns the screw on luxury car makers
The Indian government has increased import duty on CKD (complete knock down) car imports to 30% to persuade car makers to build in India. India’s economy is growing almost exponentially, as a result of which it has a big, rising middle-class with much the same aspirations as the middle-class in the West. Those aspirations include […]
Porsche ‘Pajun’ planned: Sub-Panamera on the way
Porsche are reported to be working on a smaller version of the Panamera – dubbed Panamera Junior or Porsche Pajun – for launch in 2016. Porsche gave traditionalists heart failure when they launched the Porsche Cayenne almost a decade ago. But it turned in to the biggest cash-cow Porsche had ever made. Having see-off a chunk of […]