Ford has launched an ECOnetic version of the Mondeo Titanium as a five door or estate, offering Eco savings on a higher spec cars for the first time. Were Ford listening to us? Probably not. But when we did the Fiesta ECOnetic Review earlier this year we did make a point of saying that we […]
VW sells 5 million cars in China
Volkswagen are celebrating five million car sales in China during 25 years of manufacturing. We hear ever day how big the car market is in China. So big, in fact, that it will soon become the biggest car market in the world. And every car maker is jumping on the bandwagon to sell and produce […]
The Stig – Some say he was arrested…
Top Gear’s Stig has been arrested twice recently. Once by the Garda in Dublin and once by a truck load of soldiers in the Mojave desert. As you may have noticed, we have run a couple of Top Gear stories lately. Nothing new there – we often catch up with the antics of the TG […]
New McLaren F1 – rendered
Coventry University graduate Matt Williams has created a 21st century McLaren F1 featuring three seats and BMW V10 power. As we’re all aware, McLaren launched the new McLaren MP4-12C in to the public consciousness last month with a full raft of pictures and a fair bit of technical information. And the response from the motoring […]
MINI E Test – a bit of a flop?
MINI has had a very muted response in its quest to find people to pay to test the MINI E Electric car. Just 515 applied. Having reported earlier on Ford looking for testers for the Focus BEV, we thought it might be interesting to have a bit of a dig around and see what sort […]
Ford Focus BEV – testers wanted
Ford are looking for testers for their Electric Focus (BEV) based in the Hillingdon area of London. Back at Frankfurt last month, Ford revealed the Focus BEV, a plug-in electric Focus which they told us they were intending trialing in the New Year. Well, things are moving on and Ford are now looking for 20 […]
Mégane Renaultsport 250 – Press Release
RENAULT ANNOUNCES SPECIFICATION FOR MEGANE RENAULTSPORT 250 * New Mégane Renaultsport 250 priced from just £21,995 on the road * Available in two versions: Mégane Renaultsport 250 Cup and Mégane Renaultsport 250 * Two chassis settings including the availability from launch of the Cup setting with a limited slip differential * Unique features in the […]
Mégane Renaultsport 250 – UK Details +video
Renault officially revealed the Megane Renaultsport at the Frankfurt Motor Show and have now released UK details and prices. Renault do a pretty good job with their Renaultsport models. Always fun for a wham, bam, thank you M’am thrash around, they offer a lot of fun – and performance – for not a ridiculous amount […]
Peugeot RCZ UK debut
The Peugeot RCZ launches in the UK in Spring 2010, but visitors to the MPH shows in London & Birmingham in November will get their first sight of the new Coupe. It took Peugeot a fair while to get the RCZ to market from when we first saw it. But it got revealed officially at […]
Mansory Panamera revealed
Mansory has revealed an aggressive reworking of the Porsche Panamera, with carbon fibre and a ground effects suspension. Kourosh Mansory and his team have a habit of taking cars from the UK and making them in to something exceptional – and sometimes exceptionally awful. We fell in love with the Mansory Cyrus at Frankfurt – […]