We have a photo of the Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster undisguised on the road in Hamburg, ahead of its debut at the New York Motor Show this month. It’s not too hard to tell we’re coming up to two major motors shows in April – the New York Motor Show and the Shanghai Motor Show. […]
2012 BMW M5 leaks
The first photos of the 2012 BMW M5 (F10) have leaked after a private presentation in Munich, ahead of the official reveal at Shanghai later this month. As is often the way with new cars, there’s lots of pre-amble until the point where car makers deliver them up at a Motor Show or an appropriate […]
Jaguar XF 2.2 Diesel confirmed. Surely not?
Jaguar has issued a press release saying the Jaguar XF will get the 2.2 litre diesel engine with a debut at New York. Which must be a fib. The headline says that the Jaguar XF 2.2 Diesel is real. Surely not? A year ago we heard that Jaguar were going to give the XF the 2.2 litre […]
Porsche Panamera Turbo S: Official
Porsche has officially revealed the Porsche Panamera Turbo S which will get 550hp and cost £122k when it goes on sale in June. New York debut. Yesterday we reported that Porsche was about to reveal a new halo at the top of the Panamera range – the Porsche Panamera Turbo S. And today they’ve obliged. […]
Porsche Panamera Turbo S – Shanghai debut
It looks as if Porsche are about to add a new halo model to the Panamera range – the Porsche Panamera Turbo S – which will debut at the Shanghai Motor Show. Just as we expected, the Porsche Panamera has turned out to be yet another cash cow for Porsche, following on from the very successful Cayenne and […]
Lexus CT 200h: Supercharged CT 200h at New York
Lexus tuners Fox Marketing are preparing a supercharged Lexus CT 200h for Lexus to show at the New York Motor Show next month We’ve constantly bemoaned that Lexus are so obsessed with hybrids that they’ve forgotten there’s a world of people who want more from a car than a mere transport appliance. Which is rather sad. More than the rest of […]
Electric Rolls Royce Phantom: 102EX at Salon Privé 2011
Rolls Royce will be showing the electric Phantom at this years Salon Privé and the Rolls Royce category in the Salon Privé Concours d’Elégance features a number of rare Rolls cars. The Geneva Motor Show 2011 saw Rolls Royce take the wraps off the biggest electric car, with the biggest bank of batteries, we’ve seen so far – the […]
2012 Audi S8 will get 520 hp Twin-Turbo V8. Really?
It’s being reported that the 2012 Audi S8 will get a 4.0 litre, twin-turbo V8 with 520hp. Which doesn’t really seem enough. There was a time when we thought that the Audi S8 had come to the end of its life. We thought all things ‘Green’ and the economic woes of the world would put […]
Brilliance A3: China’s BMW X1 substitute. A Rose by any other name?
BMW’s Chinese partner Brilliance is to launch a BMW X1 lookalike at the Shanghai Motor Show in April – the Brilliance A3 The easy headline would be ‘Brilliance A3 – BMW X1 Clone’. But that would be a little unfair to Brilliance. Western car makers – as we’ve mentioned many times before – are compelled […]
Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster: New York debut
It now seems clear that the Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster will be revealed at the 2011 New York Motor Show in April. It’s been quite a long time coming, the Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster. The Mercedes SLS AMG Coupe made its debut at Frankfurt in 2009, complete with Gullwing doors and a two-fingered salute to McLaren. And […]