Richard Madeley – journalist and broadcaster – is writing for Cars UK as a guest car reviewer in the first of an occasional series of ‘Stars Test Cars’. It’s always interesting to read car reviews – well, it is for us – and equally interesting to see how people judge the car they’re driving. We tend to […]
Mercedes SLS AMG Black Series planned?
It looks like Mercedes is planning a Black Series version of the SLS AMG Gullwing with up to 700bhp and a 3.0 second 0-60mph. We’ve only just had the official launch of the Mercedes SLS AMG Gullwing at Frankfurt, and it won’t hit the roads until well in to 2010. But we also know that […]
New BMW M1 – the Green Supercar
BMW are planning a new M1 Supercar based on the Vision EfficientDynamics Concept seen at the Frankfurt Motor Show by 2012. It’s been on the cards for years – a range topping Supercar from BMW. The last was the M1 from the late ’70s (actually conceived as a joint project between BMW and Lamborghini), which is an […]
New Land Rover Defender – Project Icon
Land Rover are working on a new Land Rover Defender – Project Icon – based on the current Discovery and due to market in 2012. Yesterday we wrote about the future of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and noted that – despite the new models JLR are planning – one model that would continue would be […]
Overfinch Range Rover – the Holland & Holland Edition
Overfinch are to build a £140k Range Rover in conjunction with Gun Makers Holland & Holland Overfinch has always done good things with the Range Rover. They’ve made a very sound business out of taking Land Rover’s flagship model and giving it the power and on-road manners keen drivers always sought. And they add a […]
Volvo Plug-in Hybrid by 2012 – confirmed
Volvo has confirmed they will bring a plug-in Hybrid to the market by 2012, offering 150 mpg and 50g/km CO2. Back in June we reported that Volvo were working on a plug-in hybrid that they wanted to bring to market by 2012. To be honest, we were a little disparaging about their plans as we […]
SEAT Altea XL (2009) – the advert
SEAT are running a new advert for the Altea XL, featuring a ‘Brother Monster’ who – however big he gets – still fits in to the Altea XL. The SEAT Altea is really a jacked-up SEAT Leon. But it was a sensible crossover/estate thingy from SEAT which didn’t really mimic anything else available in the […]
2010 Mitsubishi Outlander Press Release
Mitsubishi’s 2010 Model Year Outlander Reveals Aggressive Styling and Upgraded Features Mitsubishi Motors Australia Limited (MMAL) is pleased to announce the arrival of the 2010 model year Outlander featuring a distinctive and aggressive styling make-over which includes the company’s trademark “jet fighter” grille, and a host of new comfort, convenience and safety appointments. Improvements to […]
New Mitsubishi Outlander (2010) surfaces
Mitsubishi has launched the 2010 Outlander in Australia. UK launch is expected early in 2010. Back in April – at the New York Motor Show – Mitsubishi showed off the Outlander GT Concept. It was clear that this was pretty much a production ready version of the Outlander with its new – more aggressive – […]
Jaguar Land Rover – The Real Future
Jaguar Land Rover are investing £800 million in new technology to create a range of world beating Jaguars and Land Rovers. Yesterday we reported on two bits of news from JLR. First up was confirmation of our story from last month that the Range Rover LRX will debut in 2010 and go on sale in […]