VAG is rationalising its product development with Audi building platforms for SUVs and Porsche for sports cars and luxury saloons. The quest to be the largest car maker on the planet is in full swing at VAG. And being the biggest car maker and, more importantly, a profitable car maker as well, means rationalising your […]
Range Rover Evoque: No Evoque hybrid planned
Land Rover has revealed that they no longer plan to offer a Range Rover Evoque hybrid although a hybrid platform will be offered on bigger Land Rovers. Regular readers will know that we’re not huge fans of the hybrid system. At best it seems an interim solution in the quest to reduce our dependency on oil, and […]
Toyota Prius T Spirit Review & Road Test (2010) Part 2
Part 2 of our review and road test of the Toyota Prius T Spirit. Is the Prius a decent drive or does it offer nothing for the keen driver? We’ve said before that reviewing a car – any car – requires not just subjectivity but objectivity too. Besides giving our opinion on a car we […]
Toyota Prius T Spirit Review & Road Test (2010 / 2011)
We have the best selling hybrid car in the world – the Toyota Prius (Toyota Prius T Spirit) – in for review and road test this week. Hype, fiction or fact? We’ll find out. There are many – us included – who thought it extremely unlikely that Toyota would ever want to send us any […]
Toyota Prius T Spirit Review & Road Test (2010) Part 3
In the final part of our review & road test of the Toyota Prius, we discover it makes a brilliant Transport Appliance. It seems to us that the Prius is a mode of transport, not a car in the sense we enjoy a car. It’s not about feeding sensations back to the driver or a […]
Jaguar Crossover Planned
Jaguar’s Global Brand Director Adrian Hallmark has declared that Jaguar need to add a Jaguar Crossover / Jaguar SUV to their range. Jaguar are makers of sports cars and sports saloons. They’ve built a reputation (alright, let’s be pedantic. They built a reputation, lost it and have now regained it) for cars that delight the eye and the […]
Jaguar XJ 3.0 TDV6 Long Term Test (2010): December update & 2011 Software review
Our long term Jaguar XJ has now been with us more than a month, so time to see how it’s fared and have a look at the latest software added to the XJ for 2011. It’s hard to believe it, but our long-term Jaguar XJ has been with us more than a month. And in […]
Ford B-Max set for Geneva 2011
Ford look set to finally unveil the Ford B-Max – the replacement for the Ford Fusion – at the Geneva Motor Show 2011. The Ford Fusion arrived in 2002 as a stretched version of the Ford Fiesta – a mini MPV. And for a while it did pretty well in the sales charts, reaching a […]
BMW 1 Series M Coupe: Official
The BMW 1 Series M Coupe is finally official. 335bhp, 0-62mph in 4.9 seconds and £40k, it debuts at the Detroit Motor Show and goes on sale May 2011. The tease for the BMW 1 Series M Coupe really ended yesterday when we brought you the final part of BMW’s interminable tease to reveal the […]
Rolls Royce Ghost LWB, Ghost DHC & Ghost Coupe planned
Rolls Royce are now planning additional models for the Rolls Royce Ghost – the Ghost LWB, Ghost DHC and Ghost Coupe. I know, you’re not exactly shocked to learn that Rolls Royce are planning on producing not just a LWB Ghost but also a Ghost Drophead Coupe and a Ghost Coupe. After all, we told […]