Project Khan has announced they’ve given the Audi Q7 the Khan treatment to create the Audi Q7 Project. Having worked over the products of Land Rover in recent years to keep the orange inhabitants of Cheshire loftily mobile, Project Khan has now decided that Audi is deserving of its gifts and has set about ‘Khan-ising’ […]
Boris slashes electric car charging point plans
London Mayor Boris Johnson has cut funding to build electric car charging points in London by 65% Back in the Summer of 2009 Captain Boris announced to the Climate Change Conference in Seoul (how many carbon dioxides did it cost all the delegates to get there, I wonder) that he intended making London the electric car Capital […]
Kia Sportage Scottish Car of the Year
Time for another raft of motoring awards, this time the Scottish Car of the Year Awards judged by motoring experts from the Association of Scottish Motoring Writers (ASMW). It sounds from all accounts as if it was a jolly day out north of the border for PRs from across the motoring industry, all travelling to […]
Top Gear Stig Farm produces New Stig +video
Top Gear has been secretly breeding Stigs on the Top Gear Farm. And they have a new Stig ready to do the Top Gear Live Shows It was always going to be a problem when Ben Collins outed himself as the man in the Stig suit and decided he wanted to be recognised as actually being The […]
Lamborghini Murcielago production ends
Lamborghini are celebrating the final Murcielago – a Lamborghini LP670-4 – rolling off the production line at Sant’Agata. Despite the Lamborghini Jota (or Lamborghini LP700-4 as we may now have to call it) failing to make the Lamborghini stand at last month’s Paris Motor Show, the news that the last Lamborghini Murcielago has now rolled […]
BMW Vision EfficientDynamics gets green light +video
BMW has announced that their hybrid diesel electric supercar from Frankfurt 2009 – The BMW Vision EfficientDynamics – will go in to production in 2013. Probably the biggest show stopper at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show was the BMW Vision EfficientDynamics Concept, which offered a diesel hybrid setup withn two electric motors, M3 levels of […]
Skoda Octavia & Skoda Superb go 4×4
Skoda Octavia nd Skoda Superb get 4×4 platform and DSG ‘box on 2.0 TDI CR 140bhp We had a shout out for Skoda and what they do to make VW product their own when we ran story the other day on the new advert for the Skoda vRS, which shows how individual and inspired Skoda […]
2012 Buick Regal GS Revealed
GM has revealed the US version of the Vauxhall Insignia VXR – the Buick Regal GS – ahead of the Los Angeles Motor Show. Yes, I know. News on a Buick isn’t anything to get too excited about unless you’re the wrong side of sixty. And a resident of the US. But that was ‘Old’ […]
Audi A4 Black Edition, A5 Black Edition & A4 Technik launch
Audi has announced a Black Edition for the A4 and A5 offering trendy gloss black cosmetics and upgraded wheels plus a new trim level for the A4 – the Audi A4 Technik. The whole ‘Black Edition’ thing is a big seller at the moment. We had Jaguar launch the Black Pack for the XKR a […]
Nissan Cube’s woeful sales: Are they surprised?
Nissan are nursing dismal sales for the Nissan Cube in Europe despite stunning sales in Japan. But that’s because they’ve not allowed for cultural differences. Let’s start with the good news for Nissan and the Nissan Cube – it’s a big success in Japan, having sold more than a million in the last decade. It offers the Japanese a […]