We have video of the Lamborghini Gallardo LP550-2 Valentino Balboni Spyder blatting round the Nurburgring ahead of a probable launch at the Paris Motor Show. Lamborghini is aiming to bring a new car along to every major motor show. But Lamborghini’s meaning of ‘New Car’ is probably slightly different to the rest of us. What Lamborghini […]
Green Car Award Winners – all more polluting than a Porsche 911
We look at the real emissions – Hydrocarbons, NOx and CO – of the winners of this week’s What Car Green Car Awards. Earlier today we did a round-up of this year’s What Car Green Car Award winners. Which many find of interest as they believe the right thing to do is buy a car […]
Top Gear’s James May does 259mph in a Bugatti Veyron Super Sport
Top Gear have been in on the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport speed record, with James May (Captain Slow) hitting 259.11mph in the 1200hp Veyron Super Sport. The Top Gear boys were running rumours around a few days ago that they had been in on the new world record speed for a production car set by the […]
What Car Green Car Awards 2010
The 2010 What Car? Green Car Awards have been made, so we though we should do a round-up of winners so you know what has this year’s biggest green halo. Over the last 48 hours we seem to have endless press releases drop in our inbox claiming kudos for winning one of the 2010 What […]
MINI-Minor – the new mini MINI
BMW appear to be planning an ultra compact, 2 or 3 seater, MINI Minor which could show at Geneva in Spring 2011. I guess you need to be old enough to remember the Morris Mini Minor to make any sense of the headline. When the Mini was launched in 1959 you could have it in […]
Citroen C3 1.4 VTi Exclusive Price & Specifications
Full price and specification details for Citroen’s super mini C3 – this one is the C3 1.4 VTi Exclusive This particular Citroen C3 – the Citroen C3 1.4 VTi 95bhp Exclusive – is the cheapest version you can grab of the new Citroen C3 in Exclusive Trim. Although the smaller 61bhp 1.1 litre and the […]
Citroen C3 1.4 VTi Exclusive Video (2010)
We recently reviewed the Citroen C3 1.4 VTi Exclusive. This is video of the car we reviewed. A couple of weeks ago we had a Citroen C3 in for review, and were actually rather impressed with what was on offer. True, it doesn’t offer the most dynamic drive in the world, but unless you are after a […]
Citroen C3 1.4 VTi Exclusive Photo Gallery
We recently had a top of the range Citroen C3 in for review – the C3 1.4 VTi Exclusive – so we sent our snappers off to do their job. Beauty is in the eye of the behodler, and our photographers said that the new Citroen C3 has some very interesting lines. It’s more rounded […]
Chevrolet Volt gets 8 year battery warranty
GM are trying to deflect possible obstacles for sales of the Chevy Volt by offering an 8 year warranty on the batteries and their components. You have to admire GM. They’ve come out and answered critics of electric cars – like us – who claim that not only are electric cars pointless in anything other than a […]
Volvo Emissions Equality Campaign – Great move
Volvo is calling for more emphasis on non-CO2 emissions on cars and a labelling system showing NOx, hydrocarbon and particulate emissions for new and used cars. Whenever we get the opportunity – as regular readers will know – we complain about the current obsession with CO2 emissions on cars and call for car makers and Governments to act on […]