The Porsche Taycan Turbo S, fitted with Performance Kit, takes the Nurburgring lap record from the Tesla Model S Plaid with a 7:33 time. Even before the electric Porsche Taycan was officially launched, Porsche was on a mission to prove that an electric Porsche is still a Porsche, and it can set records just like […]
Bentley Mulliner Batur TEASED – previews new Bentley design
The Bentley Mulliner Batur is teased ahead of a Monterey reveal as a Coupe take on the Bentley Bacalar and previewing Bentley’s future design language. Two years ago, Bentley revealed the Bentley Bacalar as a run of just 12 ‘special’ Bentleys based on the Continental GT and each costing £1.8 million, despite which they’d all […]
New Lamborghini Urus TEASED playing at Pikes Peak
There’s an updated Lamborghini Urus on the way, ahead of which Lamborghini is teasing the new Urus on the Pikes Peak Hillclimb. Believe it or not, it’ll be five years at the end of this year since the Lamborghini Urus arrived to give Lamborghini a proper SUV to compete with SUVs like the Bentley Bentayga […]
Electric Skoda Enyaq iV gets new battery management and new option packs
Skoda updates the electric Enyaq iV with enhanced battery management, OTA updates and a raft of option packs. Not so very long ago, cars used to get a mid-life update after two or three years to keep metal shifting out of showrooms. But now, as cars turn into mobile computers, updates come as often as […]
Peugeot 2008 – and electric e-2008 – UPDATED with new trim levels
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 […]