It could just be a rumour, but we’re hearing it from quite a few places, including the Nurburgring where Aston Martin have recently set up shop. The word is that Aston Martin are working on a more focused, harder-edged DBS. The Aston Martin DBSR, perhaps? If the rumours are true, and we’re starting to think […]
Nissan LEAF EV does 367mpg!
Well I’m glad it’s not just us who saw GM’s claims for the economy on the Chevy Volt at 230 mpg as stretching credulity. It seems the guys that run the NissanEV Twitter account were equally sceptical. So they’ve announced that they’ve worked out that the Nissan LEAF EV will do 367mpg! As we said, […]
Chevy Volt will do 230mpg
Yes, you read that right. In a press conference today GM has claimed that the Chevy Volt – when it finally turns up in late 2010 or more likely mid-2011 – will achive mileage equivalent to 230mpg. Some claim. How they’ve worked it out we don’t really know. Perhaps they plucked a figure out of […]
Toyota Verso D-Cat 150 Auto introduced
Toyota do make fine cars. But unfortunately, many of the fine cars they make are fine cars in terms of construction and reliability, not in terms of the enjoyment they deliver. Boring would probably cover most. My Dad drove a Toyota in his later years and it suited him fine. Once a traffic police car […]
Jaguar Land Rover sorts its finance
Jaguar Land Rover owners Tata have been waiting for Lord Many and his minions to stump up a loan guarantee to help the company move forward all year. But there seem to have been some pretty big obstacles in the way. Initially the Government wanted to impose a board member on JLR – which Tata […]
Dodge Viper to get Ferrari V10?
Chrysler has tried – and failed – to sell its halo super car brand that is the Viper. But why did it want to sell? Surely it makes sense, even in our eco-obsessed world, to keep hold of the one brand that Chrysler has that is recognised throughout the world as important. So, strapped as […]
Schumacher won’t be back
It was, to say the least, a surprise to us all when Ferrari announced that Michael Schumacher was returning to Formula 1 to fill in for the stricken Filipe Massa. Was this a step too far even for the exceptional talents of Schumacher, we asked. Was it in fact a public demonstration of the arrogance […]
GM opens on Ebay
It’s a brave new world out there in the the car business. Big, established names have fallen by the wayside, and iconic names from the past are being gobbled up by predatory minions. And as we all know, the ‘General’ (GM) has fared worst than most. It has suffered the ignominy of falling from the […]
Jaguar XKR Convertible by Arden
When we did our Jaguar XFR Review recently we came away believing that the XFR has the measure of its German competitors, including the might BMW M5. So it would be fair to assume that the XKR equally holds its own against rivals. And in our opinion, it does. But there are criticisms from some […]
New Kia Sorento at Frankfurt
As with its sister company Hyundai, Kia is inexorably moving in to the mainstream, and is starting to produce cars that compete with the best models from Europe and Japan. Already on the cards is the new Kia Cee’d at Frankfurt, and Kia has now confirmed that it is bringing the new Kia Sorento to […]