Peugeot is rolling out updates for the 2008 and electric e2008, with new trim levels with added equipment and styling updates. Last week, Peugeot revealed updates for the 208 range for 2022, including a few styling tweaks and a titivation of the available trim levels. And now it’s time for the 208’s SUV sibling – […]
New Electric MG4 EV UK Prices and Specs announced
MG announces prices and specs for the recently revealed electric MG4, with prices starting at £25,995 and a choice of three trim levels. MG may have a bit of a storied past, but its Chinese owners haven’t cashed in on that with a sports car (although that could soon change), but they have managed to […]
Looks like Lexus is planning a cheaper, and less powerful, electric RZ with the RZ 300e
Lexus has filed trademark applications for ‘RZ 300e’, so it looks like the RZ 450e is getting a cheaper, and less powerful, sibling. Back in April, Lexus revealed their first proper EV with the arrival of the Lexus RZ 450e, a new EV based on the underpinnings of the almost as new Toyota bZ4X. But […]
New Car Registrations DOWN by 9% in July
New car registrations in the UK fell in July by 9.0 per cent as supply-chain shortages continue to style production. To no one’s, great surprise, new car registrations in the UK were down again in July, with 112,162 cars registered, down from 123,296 in 2021, a fall of 9 per cent, with the blame laid […]
Lamborghini profits UP by 70% – and sold out until 2024
Lamborghini reveals its sales were up by 5 per cent in the first half of 2022, but profits increased by a whopping 70 per cent. It’s just a few days since we reported that Bentley made as much profit in the first six months of 2022 as it did in the whole of 2021, despite […]
Dacia Duster Commercial updated – and UP in price
Dacia has given the Duster Commercial – its ‘Van’ take on the regular Duster – a bit of an update, which comes with a price increase. A year ago, Dacia updated the Duster SUV – and increased its price – and that was followed a few months later by a similar update for the Duster […]
Jaguar Land Rover aim to improve electronic RELIABILITY with new testing facility
Jaguar Land Rover has a new Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) laboratory at Gaydon to ensure future models are electronically reliable. Jaguar Land Rover is still dogged with a reputation for unreliability, although they’re on a mission, again, to address it as a new generation of Range Rover and Range Rover Sport start to arrive. There’s no […]
Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe Plug-in Hybrid now on SALE in the UK
The new Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe Plug-in Hybrid is now on sale in the UK, with prices starting at £69,130 and rising to £82,130. It’s almost a year since the new Jeep Grand Cherokee was unveiled, and six months since we got UK details. And now we get specs and prices for the new Grand Cherokee […]
New Nissan X-Trail UK debut on 6 September
Nissan announces that the new X-Trail SUV will debut in the UK on 6 September, more than a year after the new X-Trail debuted in Japan. The current Nissan X-Trail is a fine family SUV and is actually Nissan’s best-selling model globally, although in the UK the Qashqai out-sells it comfortably. That perhaps explains why, […]
Peugeot 208 – including electric 208 – model range updated…AGAIN
Peugeot is updating the 208 – including the electric 208 – for the second time in eight months with improved model specs. We all know car prices have risen as car makers ride out the ‘Chip’ shortage and Covid problems by delivering better spec cars, rather than bargain basement entry models, to keep profits buoyant […]