Salon Prive 2011 – which has moved to Syon Park – will include an evening ‘Pommery Picnic’ on the Friday evening for the first time It may be a bit of an exagerration to say that Salon Privé – one of our favourite ‘Car’ outings – is going to include a night shift in 2011 […]
2012 MINI Coupe: Almost there
Judging from the almost production-ready look of this spy shot of the MINI Coupe, it looks like it’s almost ready for showrooms. It’s heading towards two years since MINI revealed the MINI Coupe at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 2009. Along with its twin the MINI Roadster. Respectively they were MINI Concepts #984 and 985. […]
Skoda Octavia for under £11k
Skoda are offering 2,000 Skoda Octavia 1.6 MPI (102 PS) SE models at 25% off – that’s just £10,995 for a Golf in Czech clothes. If we told you a place where you could grab a brand new VW Golf for £10,995 it’d grab your attention, right? And if we told you that not only was […]
Hyundai ix35 waiting list – Hyundai has a solution
Hyundai are to supply 1.7 litre ix35s – free of charge – to those on the waiting list for the Hyundai ix35 2.0 litre diesel to cut waiting lists. It shouldn’t come as a big surprise that the Hyundai ix35 has something of a waiting list. In fact, considering the decent specification, Euro-centric design and […]
Lamborghini Gallardo: Chinese owner takes umbrage
The owner of a Lamborghini Gallardo in China organises its destruction to complain about the service he received from Lamborghini. Maybe China doesn’t have any effective consumer rights laws to protect disgruntled consumers. Or maybe the owner of the Lamborghini Gallardo in China, who organised its destruction on China’s ‘National Consumer Day’ to make a point about […]
Porsche Cajun: Production confirmed
Porsche has confirmed it is extending its Leipzig Plant to create facilities for production of the Porsche Cajun. 1,000 jobs will be created in the process. No, this isn’t a story confirming that the Porsche Cajun is going to be produced. We’ve already reported that Porsche has officially acknowledged that the Cajun will be built. No, this is confirmation […]
2012 BMW M5 Preview Video
BMW send us the next instalment in their tease of the 2012 BMW M5, this time a video showing the M5 driving openly but still disguised. The tease for the 2012 BMW M5 started just ten days ago when we published BMW’s first M5 teaser video. Just the briefest of glances of the new M5 – still […]
Lexus CT 200h: On sale now +video
Lexus are keen to let you know the Lexus CT 200h is now on sale in the UK. So consider yourself informed. Plus we have video of the CT 200h. We’ve covered just about all there is to be covered on the Lexus CT 200h. Everything from back when it was a very gold Lexus […]
MINI Goodwood at Shanghai
MINI are taking a luxury MINI concept to the Shanghai Motor Show in April – the MINI Goodwood Concept – which is effectively a MINI Rolls Royce. It could be argued that we could make up any concept for a MINI and, if we were to wait long enough, MINI would get round to fulfilling […]
2012 Jaguar XF: New York Debut
Jaguar are to launch the facelift for the XF – the 2012 Jaguar XF – at the New York Motor Show, including the new 2.2 diesel XF. We had expected that we would see the 2012 Jaguar XF at the Geneva Motor Show this month, but Jaguar instead chose to give us the Jaguar XKR-S for our […]