Land Rover are recruiting 275 new workers at Solihull – an increase of 5.5% in the workforce – to cope with a bulging order book. It’s less than a year since we were busy reporting that Jaguar Land Rover were expecting to have to make some pretty severe job cuts. Tata had seen losses of […]
Audi A1 – Seven specials at Wörthersee Tour 2010
Audi are out in force for the 2010 Wörthersee customiser Tour with 7 Audi A1s, a new R8 GT and a host of other Audis on display. Audi has more models than you can shake a stick at. And if you factor in every variation there is on the hugely speccable new Audi A1 then […]
Ferrari 400 Superamerica sells for £2.3 million
R.M. Auctions inaugural Sporting Classics of Monaco sale made a record €33 million, with a 1962 Ferrari 400 Superamerica making €2.8 million The world’s in the depths of the worst recession in a generation (or three). Banks aren’t lending to anyone who needs it – just to those who don’t. The Greeks are up in arms […]
Audi UK prices to rise this month.
Audi prices are due to rise on 24th May by 2%. But we think that the figures add up to an increase this year of over 10%. Unless we’re wrong. Audi has decreed that it’s time to bump up UK prices once again. Which seems a bit soon. If our reporting is accurate (it usually is) then Audi […]
McLaren F1 – You wait ages for one, and then 21 turn up.
McLaren invited McLaren F1 owners along to Woking to take a look at the new McLaren MP4-12C. They also asked them to bring their cars along. 21 did. The McLaren F1 is arguably the greatest car ever built. Many would disagree – Jeremy Clarkson being one – but many see the F1 as the pinnacle of motoring […]
Porsche Boxster Carrera GT lookalike. Seriously sad.
A car dealer in Germany is selling a 1997 Porsche Boxster for £45k because it looks like a Carrera GT. Apparently. We’ve seen some pretty horrible attempts to make a car look special. We’ve seen the guy in Greece who built his own Hellenic Enzo. We had the pair of hustlers who were building replica […]
New Fiat Uno launches – in Brazil
Fiat in Brazil has launched a new Fiat Uno with a choice of two bio-fuel engines and a rufty-tufty option – the Uno Way. The Fiat Uno was a mainstay of the Fiat range for most of the ’80s and ’90s. It offered cheap and cheerful – but not exactly reliable – motoring for a […]
Bentley Mulsanne (2010) – New video. Bit boring.
Bentley have sent us a new video of the 2010 Mulsanne coasting round Scotland. A bit dreary. Really. Bentley have been upping the PR on the new Bentley Mulsanne quite a bit of late. But we didn’t really play. They had a series of videos about the making of the Mulsanne. Which seemed potentially interesting. […]
Nissan Pathfinder & Nissan Navara – UK prices
Nissan has updated the Nisaan Navara and Nissan Pathfinder for 2010. We have prices and details of the extra kit. Nissan has been having a tweak at the edges for 2010 on a couple of their more rugged offerings – the Nissan Pathfinder and Nissan Navara – and has now released UK pricing for the […]
Porsche 911 GT2 RS leaks
Details of the Porsche 911 GT2 RS have leaked after a private event in Leipzig. We have a grainy picture and performance and price details. Not literally, you understand, but the details of the new Porsche 911 GT2 RS have found there way on to the interweb from that font of high-end help – Teamspeed. The 911 […]