Volkswagen is to pay £193 million to settle ‘Dieselgate’ claims in the UK, drawing a line under the seven-year-old scandal. It’s almost seven years since the Volkswagen Dieselgate scandal first reared its head as the world discovered VW had been fitting ‘Defeat Devices‘ to its cars to cover excess NOx emissions, since when VW has […]
Volkswagen Touareg EDITION 20 celebrates two decades of VW’s big SUV
The Volkswagen Touareg EDITION 20 arrives to celebrate two decades of VW’s Touareg, with cosmetic tweaks and four engine choices. It’s two decades since the VW Touareg arrived as VW’s biggest SUV, with its basic underpinnings also heading to Porsche for the Cayenne and Audi for the Q7. VW has been bold in the past […]
Bentley Azure range delivers ‘WELLBEING’ for Continental GT, Flying Spur and Bentayga
The Bentley Azure badge returns as Bentley add it to ‘Speed’ and ‘Mulliner’ as a style package across the entire Bentley range. News that Bentley Azure returns suggests new convertible versions of Bentley’s Continental GT, but this time around ‘Azure’ is more than that – it’s a ‘Wellbeing’ makeover for every car in Bentley’s range. […]
BMW M4 50 Jahre Edition heading for the UK to CELEBRATE 50 years of BMW’s ‘M’ Division
BMW celebrates the 40th Anniversary of the BMW M Division with the M4 50 Jahre Edition, a cosmetic special edition heading for the UK. It’s 50 years ago today (24 May 2022) since BMW’s M Division came into existence, and it’s certainly made its mark. To celebrate, BMW is delivering celebration models of both the […]
Tiny Electric Citroen Ami costs from £7,695 in the UK
Citroen reveals prices and specs for the two-seat electric Ami starting at £7,695 and the ‘commercial’ Ami Cargo at £7,995. Electric cars are far too expensive for most buyers, with even an ‘average’ family-sized EV costing around £50k. But there is a cheap way to go electric, especially if you live in a congested city […]
New Ford Ranger Raptor goes on sale in the UK – and it’ll cost you almost £60k
The new Ford Ranger Raptor – the range-topping version of the new Ford Ranger – goes on sale in the UK with prices starting from £57,340. The humungous Ford F150 isn’t sold in the UK, but now you can have a slightly shrunken lookalike version in the new Ford Ranger Raptor, now on sale in […]
Polestar 3 – Polestar’s ‘Performance’ take on the Volvo Embla / XC90 – October debut
The Polestar 3 – the next EV from Volvo’s standalone Polestar brand – will debut in October as Polestar’s take on the next-gen Volvo XC90/Embla. It’s hardly a secret that electric car specialist Polestar is basically Volvo with a ‘Performance EV’ hat on despite its’ standalone’ mantra. And nor is it a secret that it […]
BMW M4 CSL REVEALED – 542bhp of M4 CS ‘Light’ for £128,820
The BMW M4 CSL arrives as a limited run of 1,000 M4s with weight reduction and added power. 100 for the UK from £128,820. The BMW CSL badge is a proper rarity, used, until now, only on the 1972 3.0 CSL and the 2004 M3 CSL. But now it’s back and attached to a new […]
1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Coupé SOLD for £115 Million
A 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Coupé, one of just two in existence and owned by Mercedes from new, is sold for a world record £115 million. Everyone knows that the most valuable car in the world is the Ferrari 250 GTO, with chassis #3413 selling in 2018 for almost £40 million, and rumours of a […]
THIS is the 2024 electric Renault Scenic – but with a hydrogen range-extender powertrain
The Renault Scenic Vision Concept is revealed as a look at the 2024 electric Renault Scenic, but previewing future technologies too. We’re well used to car makers churning out early looks at future EVs, so the arrival of the Renault Scenic Vision Concept (pictured above) previewing an electric Scenic for 2024 isn’t really anything new. […]