The Audi A6 Avant e-Tron Concept is revealed as Audi signals its intent to deliver an electric A6 Avant by 2024. The great car-buying public’s obsession with high-riding cars – together with the added practicality of extra height to bolt a battery pack under the car – has seen EV crossovers turn up with almost […]
The Prodrive Hunter – a 600bhp ‘All-Terrain Hypercar’ – pitched at Middle East buyers
The Prodrive Hunter is revealed as a road-legal Dakar off-roader with 600bhp and aimed at Middle East buyers. Costs from £1.5 million. What if you took a very special Dakar Rally car, threw the Dakar rule book out of the window and made it road legal, what would you end up with? One answer is […]
THIS is the new 690bhp Aston Martin V12 Vantage – but you can’t have one
The new – and last – Aston Martin V12 Vantage is revealed with 690bhp and good for 62mph in 3.4 seconds. And all 333 are already sold. Aston Martin has been fond of sticking its biggest engine in to its smallest car (no, not the Cygnet), so it’s about time the V12 went back in […]
Electric BMW i7 and new BMW 7 Series to DEBUT in April
BMW is set to reveal the new electric BMW i7 alongside the new 7 Series on 20 April, with the new 7 Series offering ICE and PHEV powertrains. We’ve seen the arrival of a new Mercedes S-Class and its electric sibling the Mercedes EQS in the 18 months, and arch-rival BMW is about to play […]
Hyundai Ioniq 5, Kia EV6 and Ford Mustang Mach-E – 2022 World Car of the Year finalists
The 2022 World Car of the Year finalists are announced, and it’s a fight between the Hyundai Ioniq 5, Kia EV6 and Ford Mustang Mach-E. Just last week, when we revealed that the 2022 UK Car of the Year is the Hyundai Ioniq 5, we bemoaned the fact that it now seems impossible for any […]
Will a McLaren F1 GTR run on DIESEL? It seems not.
Wealthy petrolhead Francois Perrodo managed to fill up the tank on his McLaren F1 FTR at BP in Chiswick with diesel. Which won’t be a cheap fix. The McLaren F1 is perhaps the most celebrated, and expensive, supercar ever made (challenged only by the Ferrari 250 GTO) and only 64 road cars and even fewer […]
Jaguar I-Pace EV batteries getting second life as portable energy storage units
Jaguar has partnered with energy specialist Pramac to develop portable energy storage units using second-life Jaguar I-Pace batteries. It’s no secret that electric car batteries have a shelf life – just like the batteries in your laptop or phone – but even when they reach the end of their useful life they’re full of valuable […]
A 1963 Peel P50 – the World’s Smallest Car – sells for £111,000
A 1963 Peel P50, the smallest car in the world, has sold for a near-record £111,000 at auction, the second-highest price ever paid for a P50. Top Gear, in the Clarkson, May and Hammond days, had probably more influence on what was perceived as appealing and not appealing than just about any other before or […]
Lexus LC Hokkaido Edition titivates the LC Convertible and Coupe
Lexus delivers a limited edition model – the Lexus LC Hokkaido Edition – with cosmetic tweaks and is available as Coupe or Convertible. It’s a decade since we first saw the Lexus LC as a Concept, a concept Lexus didn’t plan to turn in to a production model but, overwhelmed by the positive response, they […]
Ford Model E: Three new electric cars by 2024 including Puma EV and VW ID.4-based Crossover
Ford’s new EV division – Ford Model e – is planning three new passenger EVs and four new commercial EVs by 2024. Ford has now split its passenger car business in to two bits, with Ford Model e responsible for all EV models and Ford Blue responsible for ICE models going forward. Which is probably […]