Fiat boss Sergio Marchionne has confirmed that there will be a Maserati SUV based on the Grand Cherokee chassis The idea of an SUV from every luxury maker seemed a dead cert a few years ago. And then the world went in to financial meltdown and the eco-mentalists convinced a chunk of the car buying […]
Mercedes AMG Black Series – more to come
AMG boss Ola Kallenius has said that there are two new Black Series Models in the planning. The SLS AMG Black Series and the C63 AMG Black Series, perhaps? We all know that AMG is the performance arm of Mercedes and that the Black Series cars from AMG are the most hardcore of them all. […]
Audi RS3 Revealed
Audi has revealed the Audi RS3 with 4WD, 335bhp and 4.6 seconds 0-62mph. On sale in December from around £40k This took a bit longer than we expected. Back in September 2009 we reported that Audi would be taking a very hot A3 – the Audi RS3 – to the Frankfurt Motor Show. We heard that courtesy of an […]
Mercedes Benz Eyecatchers +video
Mercedes has brought in the boffins to decide what it is that attracts a man’s eye to a car first of all. And to a woman. If we asked you what it is that you look at first when you look at a woman (I know, sexist – but it is part of the story) you’d probably […]
Tesla-Toyota RAV4 EV: LA Catchup +video
Toyota has produced an electric RAV4 – the Tesla-Toyota RAV4 EV – in collaboration with Tesla. 35 test cars will run in 2011 before production starts in the US in 2012. A couple of weeks ago we ran a story on the Tesla Toyota RAV4 EV, an electric Toyota RAV4 endowed with electric car gubbins by Tesla. That’s the same Tesla […]
Ecotricity Nemesis: The UK Tesla
Ecotricity, makers of wind turbines and eco-electricity, has created Ecotricity Nemesis, a Lotus-based electric car – just like the Tesla Roadster Dale Vince has built Ecotricity – an environmentally-friendly electricity generating company – from nothing to an annual investment of £25 million in wind energy. Which casual readers here would think we would find appalling. But far from […]
Pagani C9 won’t get SL65 Black V12
Pagani has announced that the Pagani C9 – the Zonda replacement – will get a custom AMG V12 and not the V12 from the Mercedes SL65 Black. Didn’t we know that? It’s been a while since we heard anything about the Pagani C9. In fact the last thing we reported – which, surprisingly, hasn’t been widely […]
AMG and Ducati join forces
It has been announced that Mercedes performance division – AMG – is to join with Italian superbike maker Ducati in joint promotion ventures We didn’t see this coming, we must admit. And at first glance we really don’t really see the synergy. Mercedes AMG are to join up with Italian superbike makers Ducatti to acess new customer […]
Fiat 500: US Spec Fiat 500 revealed in LA
Fiat has revealed the US-Spec Fiat 500 at the Los Angeles Motor Show, suitable fettled for the American car buyer and costing from $15,500 It would have been completely unthinkable just a few years ago; a small Fiat not just entering the US market but doing so amid much domestic anticipation and razzmatazz. But it’s happened – the […]
2011 BMW 6-Series Convertible debuts
BMW has revealed the 2011 BMW 6-Series Cabriolet. Available initially as the 640i or 650i it goes on sale Spring 2011. Perhaps BMW wants to grab a slice of the top-end convertible action next Spring, or maybe they just fancied turning normal model launch convention on its head by launching the soft-top first. But whatever […]