Geely pays homage to British icons at Shanghai 2011. Geely Emgrand EC6-RV is a MINI Cooper by another name, & the Geely Englon SC7-RV is a civilian London Taxi. Regular readers – in fact anyone who takes notice of car news – will probably recognise Geely as being the Chinese car maker who bought Volvo […]
Lexus CT 200h by Fox Marketing gets 300bhp
The Lexus CT 200h by Fox Marketing has debuted at the new York Motor Show, complete with Eaton Supercharger, wide body and 300bhp. You may recall, at the end of last month, we reported on the Lexus CT 200h by Fox Marketing, a pimped and tarted Lexus CT 200h which was going to feature a […]
Kia Soul Facelift: New York catch-up
Kia has given the Kia Soul a nip and tuck for 2011/2012, with a new, more powerful, direct-injection 1.6 litre petrol lump and some cosmetic tweaks. As the car world seems to become more corporate and bland with every year that passes, truly ‘Marmite’ cars get fewer and fewer. But one car that is still […]
2012 Mercedes E63 AMG gets Twin-Turbo 5.5-Litre V8: New York 2011 Catch-up
Mercedes has given the 2012 E63 AMG a heart transplant with the new 5.5 litre twin-turbo V8. All the better to take on the new M5. And the Jaguar XKR-S It’s always the same; however hard we try there’s always something of proper interest that slips through the net when there’s a motor show on, […]
2012 Subaru Impreza debuts at New York
The 2012 Subaru Impreza has been launched at the New York Motor Show. On sale in the UK later in 2012 we will only get the hatch, not the saloon. We had what we thought was a taster of the 2012 Subaru Impreza back at the Los Angeles Motor Show in November when we saw […]
Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport & Super Sport China specials
Bugatti has shown two Chinese customer cars at the Shanghai Motor Show, a carbon fibre Veyron Super Sport & a Matte White Veyron Grand Sport. Really, we don’t need to look at economic groups of nations – like the G8 or G20 – to judge how affluent a country is, or is becoming. We should just look which countries buy a […]
Mugen Honda CR-Z to be supercharged
The Mugen Honda CR-Z special planned to show at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this year will get a supercharger and deliver 200bhp – and still be a hybrid. We’re not the biggest fans of the Honda CR-Z, despite it being a decent-looking car. It’s a car born out of the necessity for Honda to […]
2012 Jaguar XK debuts at New York +video
Jaguar has revealed the 2012 Jaguar XK at the New York Motor Show, with a refresh to the nose, the tail and the interior for 2012. It’s not as big an overhaul as the 2012 Jaguar XF, but Jaguar has sensibly had a play to freshen up the XK and keep it looking crisp for a while […]
2012 Jaguar XF: New XF & XFR New York reveal
Jaguar reveals the 2012 Jaguar XF and XFR at the 2011 New York Motor Show, with a raft of small changes and the new, 2.2 litre diesel XF. Update: We now also have video of the 2012 Jaguar XF and the 2012 XFR below. Exactly as expected, and with pretty much all the changes we predicted, […]
Mazda LIVE from the New York Motor Show
We’re hosting the Mazda press conference LIVE from New York, where Mazda will unveil its SKYACTIV technology and the Mazda CX-5 in the guise of the Minagi Concept We haven’t done a Mazda Motor Show press conference live feed before, so when Mazda called us and asked us if we’d like to – and mentioned […]