The Porsche 911 Dakar – a Porsche 911 with real off-road chops – is teased ahead of a debut on 16 November at the Los Angeles Motor Show. As we said when we reported on Porsche’s mission to climb the world’s highest volcano in a modified off-road 911 last week, “after this outing, a 911 […]
Electric Porsche Taycan passes 100,000 builds – and some Taycans have done more than 100k miles
Three years on from its debut, the electric Porsche Taycan has passed the 100,000 build mark and now outsells Porsche’s sports cars. It’s seven years since the Porsche Mission E Concept was revealed at the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show (remember motor shows?) as Porsche more than hinted at what was to come in an electric […]
Audi e-Tron is now OFFICIALLY the new Audi Q8 e-Tron
The Audi e-Trongets a facelift and in the process becomes the new Audi Q8 e-Tron, Q8 e-Tron Fastback and SQ8 e-Tron. A couple of days ago, Audi teased the arrival of a facelift for the electric e-Tron and in the process revealed the facelift would also see a new name for Audi’s range-topping electric SUV. […]
New Peugeot 408 goes on sale in the UK with prices from £31,050
The new Peugeot 408 goes on sale properly in the UK, with prices from £31,050 for the entry-level model to £45k for the First Edition. Back in June, the Peugeot 408 arrived as Peugeot’s take on the Citroen C5 X as a sort of everyman car with raised ride height and butch appearance, spanning genres […]
Volvo EX90 gets ANOTHER tease ahead of tomorrow’s debut as the new electric XC90
With the new Volvo EX90 due to arrive tomorrow as an electric XC90, Volvo U is back with another, not very revealing, tease. For all Volvo’s proclamations about an electric future, they’ve been quite slow to deliver electric cars with, so far, just the XC40 Recharge and C40 Recharge on the market as actual BEVs, […]
New Citroen C5 X and new C5 Aircross get IMPROVED PHEV powertrain
Citroen has upgraded the plug-in hybrid powertrain in both the C5 X and C5 Airross to offer an improved EV range. EV anoraks condemn plug-in hybrids as the worst of both worlds, and that’s not helped by the bonkers official economy figures proclaiming three-figure mpg when, in the real world, you don’t have a prayer […]
Audi e-Tron and e-Tron Sportback about to turn in to the Audi Q8 e-Tron and Q8 e-Tron Sportback
The Audi e-trona and e-Tron Sportback will turn into the Audi Q8 e-Tron and Q8 -Tron Sportback with a facelift to debut on 9 November. The Audi e-Tron arrived back in 2018 as Audi’s first serious electric SUV push, but it’s starting to fall a bit behind more recent premium EVs. We’d expected the e-Tron […]
Ford Fiesta regains sales TOP spot in October – but Nissan Qashqai is this year’s best-seller
New car registrations in the UK rose by 26.4 per cent to 134,344, with the Ford Fiesta regaining top spot. But it’s the Nissan Qashqai at the top for the year so far. New car registrations are still a long way short of numbers pre-Covid as its hangover and supply chain problems constrain production. Despite […]
Can a Porsche 911 get to the top of the world’s HIGHEST Volcano?
Porsche has modified a 911 Carrera 4S to tackle a climb up the world’s highest volcano – Ojos del Salado in Chile. For at least the last decade, there have been rumours that Porsche plans to build an off-road 911 – however incongruous that may seem – dubbed the 911 Safari. Those rumours have intensified […]
Watch Lewis Hamilton give the Ineos Grenadier a bit of a THRASHING
The ‘Real New Land Rover Defender’ Ineos Grenadier is given a workout by Lewis Hamilton, with Ineos boss Jim Ratcliffe riding shotgun. Sir Jim Radcliffe, boss of chemical giant Ineos, had a back of a fag packet moment back in 2016 and decided he wanted to build a 4X4 true to the ethos of the […]