The Aston Martin One-77 is finally hitting the roads, and we have one of the first snapped outside the Hotel de Paris in the centre of Monte Carlo Regular readers may remember our story last year about the guy who bought not one Aston Martin One-77, but ten. With the caveat that they were all […]
Aston Martin Rapide: The Movie
Aston Martin has made the Aston Martin Rapide the star of an espionage mystery movie, filmed in Lisbon and released in three parts. Last February Aston Martin decamped en-masse to the Iberian Peninsula to play PR jollies with the new Aston Martin Rapide. First stop on the tour was Valencia, where the world’s media gathered at […]
Infiniti FX30d: They DO exist.
We manage to find the ‘Golden Ticket’ of the car world. A real, live Infiniti FX30d actually on UK roads. Wow. The Sunday morning ritual (and the Saturday morning one, for that matter) is an hour with the dogs round the local meadow and woods. A ritual I have to confess is actually done every day, but […]
Top Gear: The Motoring Ashes, Ferrari 599 GTO & Boris Becker
Tonight’s Top Gear sees Messrs Hammond, Clarkson & May play Motoring Ashes against the Australian Top Gear Crew, Ferrari 599 GTO & Boris Becker. After a better than average start to the latest series of Top Gear (Series 16 AB), with a trio of tests and Scouse comic John Bishop proving there’s nothing quicker than a […]
Mercedes ‘Baby CLS’ in 2013 – based on new Mercedes B-Class.
Mercedes are planning four variants of the next A Class & B Class, including an SUV, Shooting Brake and a ‘Baby CLS’. The Mercedes A Class and Mercedes B Class are coming to the end of their life. And with the end of the current generation of the compact Mercedes we will also see the […]
Lamborghini LP550-2: New entry-level Lamborghini Gallardo?
It’s reported that Lamborghini are considering launching a new entry-level Gallardo – the Lamborghini LP550-2. It started with the Diablo. Lamborghini decided a good way to tame the beast was to offer a 4WD option. Which was rather popular. So popular, Lamborghini made it the default setting for their road cars. Perhaps they thought it a good […]
Noble M600 arrives – again
The Noble M600 finally arrives in production ready form before deliveries finally begin in the Spring. The Noble M600 has been coming for quite some time. In fact, as long ago as August 2009 we reported the arrival of the M600 with a very similar headline – ‘Nobel M600 Arrives‘. But now it really has. […]
Citroen DS4: The Most Beautiful Car
The Citroen DS4 doesn’t launch until later in 2011, but has already been voted ‘Most Beautiful Car of the Year’. Despite our original scepticism about the resurrection of the iconic (a word too easily bandied around – but appropriate here) ‘Goddess’ moniker for a new range of Citroens, the Citroen DS3 bowled us over both […]
Volvo slashes model range – V50 out first
Volvo has revealed that they are cutting their range of models on the US by up to half in a bid to win back sales. That got your attention, didn’t it? Volvo slashing their model range. What’s going on? Have they taken the whole ‘We’re not a Premium Maker – Just Swedish’ thing too far? […]
2012 Volkswagen Beetle Spied
We spy an almost production-ready 2012 Volkswagen Beetle out testing. We could even see the 2012 Beetle debut at the Geneva Motor Show. Yes, the next generation of the ‘New’ VW Beetle us upon us, certainly if the spy shots we’ve got of an almost undisguised 2012 VW Beetle are anything to go by. And […]