The new Mercedes S-Class Coupe – the new Mercedes CL – will arrive in the UK in September and cost from £93,565 for the S 500 Coupe AMG Line. [nggallery id=1765 template=customlinks] The new Mercedes S-Class Coupe arrived officially at the Geneva Motor Show in March, with the S 63 AMG Coupe revealed at the […]
Jaguar XE S revealed in Jaguar’s ‘Feel XE’ Project launch
Jaguar has enlisted Emeli Sandé, Stella McCartney and Idris Elba to front a campaign for the new Jaguar XE – Feel XE to express ‘Exhilaration’ as the new XE launches. Jaguar Land Rover has taken to the ‘celebrity launch’ with a vengeance in recent years, enlisting a wide range of faces from Victoria Beckham (and David in […]
Range Rover Sport SVR takes on the Nurburgring – and wins (video)
Land Rover has taken the new Range Rover Sport SVR to the Nurburgring to set a quick lap and have come away with a Nurburgring record for a production SUV. [nggallery id=1889 template=customlinks] We’re not sure at what point a car actually becomes a ‘production’ car, but that’s a tag Land Rover are putting on the […]
New Land Rover Discovery Sport to get 7 seats – and they’re (almost) revealed
The new Land Rover Discovery Sport – the first in a new family of Discovery models – will come with 7 seats as standard when it launches in 2015. We already know that the Land Rover Discovery Sport will be replacing the Freelander in Land Rover’s range next year as the first in a family […]
Boris planning war on diesel car drivers – London Mayor wants drivers of diesel cars to pay more
London Mayor Boris Johnson wants to charge drivers of diesel cars more to use the London congestion zone and increase their road tax. We’ve long banged on about the nonsense of basing the cost of motoring on the Co2 emissions of cars, and it seems the London Mayor, Boris Johnson, also realises that Co2-based taxation […]
2015 Kia Sorento teased (video) – European debut at 2014 Paris Motor Show
The 2015 Kia Sorento is teased by Kia ahead of a debut in Korea in August and a European public debut at the 2014 Paris Motor Show in October. The 2015 Kia Sorento will be revealed in South Korea next month (August 2014) – and get its European debut at the Paris Motor Show in […]
New Jaguar XE will return up to 75mpg – lightweight aluminium accounts for 75% of structure
The new Jaguar XE’s roll-out ahead of its debut on 8 September continues with details of the XE’s aluminium construction and 75mpg capability. The Jaguar XE will debut officially on 8 September, and Jaguar are busy rolling out details of what the XE will offer to keep interest and expectations high. Today’s instalment in the […]
Audi A3 Sportback e-tron price and specs – costs £34,950
The Audi A3 Sportback e-Tron plug-in hybrid goes on sale for £34,950 and comes with official economy of 176.6mpg. First deliveries Jan 2015. If governments are going to base car taxation on Co2 emissions, then car makers are going to build cars that ‘game’ the official tests. A perfect example of which is the new […]
Driving licence costs to be cut by almost a third
The Government is planning to cut the cost of first driving licences by up 32 per cent and renewal driving licences by up to 30 per cent. Actually the cost of applying foe a driving licence is a drop in the ocean compared with just about every other motoring cost, but the news that the […]
Hungarian Grand Prix (2014): RESULT
With Nico Rosberg on pole and Lewis Hamilton starting from the pits – and the promise of rain – the 2014 Hungarian Grand Prix promised to be a cracker of a race. What a difference a year makes – in 2013 Lewis Hamilton was on pole for the Hungarian Grand Prix, but this year, after […]