Peugeot has launched the Bipper Tepee – a van based MPV offering five seats and sliding doors for under £10k. The daft name fits the Bipper Tepee. It’s a pretty daft looking vehicle. There will be some who love it, but most won’t. It is what it looks – a van with windows and seats. […]
Toyota Auris 2010 Updates
Toyota has introduced a number of changes to the 2010 Auris including exterior styling tweaks and higher quality interior trim. We’re back on the ‘Home Market’ tack again, this time with the Toyota Auris. As we’ve said before, car makers have a habit of updating their models in their home market before rolling out the […]
Top Gear upsets Belfast
Top Gear has been condemned by politicians for its extravagant stunts whilst filming a piece for the next series in Northern Ireland. We ran a report a week or two ago about the Top Gear boys filming a piece for the next series in the Carpathian Mountains. The locals loved it. We had loads of […]
Audi A1 – more detail
Audi has revealed that there will be Sportback, Cabriolet, Crossover and even an S1 version of the new A1. As part of Audi’s quest to cover every conceivable niche imaginable, it has been trailing an A1 model for years. In 2007 we had the A1 Concept and at Paris last year we had the Audi A1 Sportback […]
Vauxhall safe in Magna deal
The Unite union is claiming it has agreed a deal with Magna for no compulsory redundancies at Vauxhall. With all the to-ing and fro-ing in the deal to offload Europe’s GM businesses – Opel and Vauxhall – it had been feared that Opel would win and Vauxhall would lose. But it seems that union bosses […]
David Couthard Speeding fine for 160mph in a 30mph limit
David Coulthard – driving a Red Bull F1 – has been fined for speeding at 160mph in a 30mph zone at an event in Mumbai. On the face of it the headline does suggest that DC was being a little careless getting nicked for doing 130 mph over the speed limit. And you could reasonably […]
Electric generation from traffic flow
Israeli scientists have come up with a system to generate electricity from traffic flow – Parasitic Energy Harvesting. We have to confess – in case you hadn’t already noticed – that we’re a pretty sceptical bunch when it comes to electric cars and the whole lemming-like dive in to EVs as the Holy Grail (just […]
New Volvo Dealers – in Billericay!
Volvo has added two new dealerships – Billericay and Chesterfield – to take their total to 104 in the UK. I know, it’s hardly cutting-edge, must-have news that Volvo has opened a couple of new dealerships – one in Billericay and one in Chesterfield. But even though we pride ourselves on bringing you the latest […]
SUVs – Huge in India
Sales of big SUVs and 4x4s are rising rapidly in India, where the prestige and off-road ability make it the car to own. Car buyers in the West flooded in to SUVs / 4x4s of one sort or another over the last decade. But the current economic woes have brought the SUV bandwagon to an […]
2012 VW Beetle confirmed
The next generation Volkswagen Beetle – due in 2012 – will offer more variants from the Eco to the Halo in an effort to emulate the success of MINI and the Fiat 500. To be fair, it’s not as if Volkswagen ever intended dropping the Beetle from its range. But VW’s US boss – Stefan […]