The 2014 Renault Megane has had a minor facelift and is now available to order from £16,745, with first UK cars arriving in January. [nggallery id=1630 template=customlinks] Renault has given the Megane a bit of a facelift for 2014, and the tweaked Megane debuted at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September. Now the new Megane […]
Saab 9-3 production starts again – cars to be sold online to Swedish buyers
The new owners of what was left of Saab – National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) – today re-started limited production of the Saab 9-3. Many thought, after the fiasco that was the demise of Saab after GM’s ownership – that there would never be a new Saab built at Trollhatten again. And, in many ways, they […]
Audi Q1 Compact SUV in 2016: OFFICIAL
The Audi Q1 – a compact SUV based on the Audi A1 – has been officially scheduled for launch in 2016 as Audi seeks to grow its sales of SUVs. It’s only a couple of months since we revealed that the Audi Q1 – Audi’s smallest SUV to date and based on the A1 – […]
New (2014) Mazda3 now on sale: Price from £16,695
The new Mazda 3 – revealed in the summer – is now on sale as a hatchback of Fastback from £16,695, rising to £23,345 for the 2.2-litre 150ps Sport Nav Auto Hatch. [nggallery id=1551 template=customlinks] The new Mazda3 arrived in the summer, but only now has Mazda got round to revealing prices as the new 3 […]
Toyota Verso is the first Toyota to get a BMW engine
The first fruits of the collaboration between Toyota and BMW has arrived with the 2014 Toyota Verso getting a 1.6 litre BMW diesel engine. Two years ago we reported that BMW would be supplying Toyota with diesel engines in Europe from 2014, And bang on time (as you’d expect from the Germans and Japanese) the […]
Volvo’s ‘Drive Me’ is the world’s first large-scale autonomous driving pilot project
Volvo are pushing ahead with autonomous cars, with the Drive Me Project aiming to have 100 autonomous Volvos on the roads of Gothenburg by 2017. [nggallery id=1717 template=customlinks] Like it or not, we’re rapidly moving to the point where autonomous cars will be the norm, with the driver only being involved in the act of […]
New BMW X5 gets a range of M Performance goodies
The new for 2014 BMW X5 will be able to step out of the BMW Showroom with an added does of butch thanks to a new range of M Performance parts. [nggallery id=1716 template=customlinks] It wouldn’t be a BMW unless you could make it look like it can go faster, even when it can’t. So […]
Mercedes-Benz sells 100,000 cars in a year in the UK for the first time
Mercedes-Benz has announced that it’s sold 100,000 cars in a year in the UK for the first time ever, with another full month still to go. It looks like Mercedes move in to a more convincing compact car with the new A-Class is already paying dividends, with Mercedes announcing it has already broken the 100,000 […]
Jaguar Land Rover build the millionth car at Halewood – a Range Rover Evoque
Jaguar Land Rover are celebrating building 1,000,000 cars at their Halewood Plant in Liverpool – a Range Rover Evoque. The Jaguar Land Rover Plant in Halawood was once best know for churning out the now defunct Jaguar X-Type – which it did until the X-Type was pensioned off in 2009 – but more recently its […]
VW e-up! electric city car costs £24,250
Volkswagen has revealed that the electric up! – the VW e-up! EV – will cost £24,250 when it gores on sale next week, with customers paying £19,250 after grant. [nggallery id=1445 template=customlinks] The Volkswagen e-up! (we’ve already done the northern jokes) was revealed back in March as VW’s weapon of choice for the electric city […]