Volkswagen has announced a new top of the range Passat – the VW Passat Highline Plus – featuring SatNav, Bluetooth and a chrome grill. I suppose that when you’re trying to shift a huge range of cars it’s always useful to have a model to fit every niche. VW – and particularly Audi – milk […]
McLaren MP4-12C – Development Video
McLaren Automotive have released video of the development process on the new McLaren MP4-12C, including track time at the Nurburgring and the Top Gear test track. Two months ago McLaren revealed their new supercar – the McLaren MP4-12C. Beyond some disappointment that the styling was a little generic, the praise for the potential of the […]
Toyota Aygo Platinum released
Toyota has launched a top of the range Aygo – the Toyota Aygo Platinum – with leather trim, 14″ alloys and a silver paint job. As a City Car the Toyota Aygo is far from a bad choice. In fact, it’s quite a good choice. It does all the City Car stuff rather well. Its […]
Electric cars will speed up Climate Change – Press Release
Switching to electric cars could speed climate change The idea that a wholesale switch to electric cars would automatically reduce CO2 emissions and dependence on oil is one of a number of myths dispelled by a major new report conducted on behalf of the Environmental Transport Association (ETA). The report found that whilst there were […]
Electric cars will speed up Climate Change
A report published today by the Environmental Transport Agency concludes electric cars will speed up global warming. First you have to buy in to the ‘Man-Made Global Warming’ argument. Which as you know we don’t. But if you do, you may be rather surprised to find a report by the Environmental Transport Agency (ETA) released […]
The 73 year old Supercar killer
A 73 year old Florida businessman has been responsible for writing-off at least 10 supercars in the last few years, including five Ferraris. Here at Cars UK we tend not to report on exotic cars involved in crashes. True to say it’s a bit of an interweb phenomenon and generates a lot of traffic. But […]
BMW invests £450 million in China
BMW and its Chinese partner Brilliance are to invest up to £450 million to build a new plant in China and extend the BMW range. The car market in China is seen as the big future for car makers. Rising at a tremendous rate (up 75% this year) China is a place car makers need […]
VW Touareg BlueMotion Hybrid for Detroit
Volkswagen are to reveal the Touareg BlueMotion Hybrid at the Detroit Motor Show in January together with the new 2010 VW Touareg. VW are taking the whole ‘Eco’ game seriously. They are rolling out ‘BlueMotion’ versions of cars across the range at regular intervals, the most recent being the sub 100g/km Golf BlueMotion. But most […]
Volvo XC60 – Star of New Moon
Volvo has been playing at product placement and has got the Volvo XC60 to play a starring role in the teen vampire flick New Moon. Product placement can work with cars in big films. Just look at what the original James Bond films did for Aston Martin, from the DB5 in Goldfinger to the DBS […]
Cadillac Converj to be built
Cadillac are going to put in to production the Converj – a Chevvy Volt based hybrid – although not until 2012. The Cadillac Converj (daft name) was shown as a concept at the Detroit Motor Show earlier this year and signalled a new direction for Cadillac – it was decent looking and smaller than an […]