CPP Manufacturing Ltd (Coventry Prototype Panels) are to buy Spyker in a deal worth €32 million Well, we didn’t see that coming. CPP are buying Spyker. We’re big fans of CPP (Coventry Prototype Panels) and their immense skill set, not just in putting together some of the most beautiful cars in the world, but creating some of the most […]
Lexus LFA Nurburgring Package: Photos & Detail
Lexus release more detail on the track-focused Lexus LFA Nurburgring Package – and a photo gallery – ahead of its Geneva debut When you’re making the most expensive car in your company’s history – the Lexus LFA – you don’t want to rush things. And Lexus certainly hasn’t. It’s taken a decade to get the LFA to […]
New Skoda Logo & New Skoda Design Concept at Geneva
Skoda are taking a Skoda Concept to Geneva said to feature a design language for the future, and Skoda will launch a new logo – which we have here. Skoda has been making cars for more than a century. Not always great cars, it has to be said, but a noble history nonetheless. And a […]
2012 VW Golf Cabriolet – The convertible Golf returns
Volkswagen is to reintroduce the VW Golf Cabriolet for 2012. The new VW Golf Cab will debut at Geneva next week and go on sale in July You like a VW Convertible, but you want a soft-top convertible, not a tin top. You used to love your old MK IV Golf Convertible, but VW decided […]
2011 Daihatsu Charade revealed
Daihatsu are sending one last new car to Europe before they withdraw and leave Europe to the Koreans – the 2011 Daihatsu Charade Yes, we know. Daihatsu has announced it’s leaving Europe to the Koreans and won’t be in the business of selling last generation Toyotas with a new badge on this side of the world any […]
MINI Rocketman Concept press release
DRIVING FUN IN A NEW DIMENSION: THE MINI ROCKETMAN CONCEPT The creation of innovative concepts for urban mobility has seen MINI grow into the successful brand we know today. A constant stream of new ideas from its beginnings more than 50 years ago to the present day have ensured that driving fun has continued to […]
MINI Rocketman Concept debut
MINI reveals a concept ahead of the Geneva Motor Show – the MINI Rocketman Concept – which points at the next generation MINI. Yes, we know that any motor show would be incomplete without a MINI of some description, be it a new version or just yet another ‘Limited Edition’ MINI. But this MINI Concept – the MINI Rocketman […]
2011 Aston Martin Virage & Virage Volante revealed
Aston Martin reveals the Aston Martin Virage and the Aston Martin Virage Volante ahead of a Geneva debut With the (probably) most important motor show of the year looming – and the major ‘Home’ show in the traditionalal sense for all European car makers – the reveals are coming thick and fast. Having already had Jaguar’s XKR-S […]
Jaguar XKR-S at Geneva
Jaguar reveals the XKR-S, a tweaked and sorted XKR with 542bhp, reprogrammed suspension and lots of attitude. Jaguar XKR-S. A more powerful Jaguar XKR. More powerful than even the Jaguar XKR with Speed Pack we reviewed a few months ago. More horses than the limited edition Jaguar XKR 75 from last summer. The most powerful series […]
Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4: Photo leaks
We get the first leaked photo of the Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 ahead of its reveal next week at Geneva So far, we’ve had every sort of Lamborghini Aventador LP700-4 story you could imagine in the run-up to a new car launch, from speculation over the name to disguised cars running around Europe, and all the way on to last […]