Lotus are to launch a new Lotus Elan in 2013, featuring a 4.0 litre version of the Evora V6 with up to 470bhp. I know, you’re starting to get bored and wondering how on earth Lotus can suddenly churn out a range of models that are seemingly poles apart from where they are, and expect […]
Lotus Eterne: Lotus flagship saloon revealed
Lotus has gone slightly berserk with new model announcements today. This is for a new Rapide-challenging range-topper – the Lotus Eterne. You’ll have to stick with this if you’re going through these in chronological order. There was no way we could seriously do one story on all of the Lotus announcements today, so you’re getting one for each. Sort of. […]
New Lotus Esprit revealed
Lotus has revealed the new Lotus Esprit, featuring the same power options as the new Lotus Elite and due in 2013. We’ve been banging on that the new Lotus Esprit would turn up at the Paris Motor Show forever. It seemed the most logical step, but then Lotus went and shoved a spanner in the […]
2011 Volkswagen Passat: Paris Motor Show 2010
Volkswagen has revealed the latest generation of the VW Passat at the Paris Motor Show Volkswagen like to call this 2011 VW Passat the seventh generation Passat. But it’s a sort of six and three-quarters Passat because, although every bit of sheet metal has been changed, the underpinnings stay the same. Up front the Passat […]
Audi Quattro Concept Revealed
Audi has revealed the Audi Quattro Concept, a 408bhp, shortned S5 designed to commemorate the original Audi Quattro. It was close. We almost got it right when we said that Audi would be bringing along the Audi UrQuattro Concept to Paris. We just figured they’d use the name of the original concept to commemorate 30 […]
Audi e-Tron Spyder revealed
Audi has brought their latest e-Tron to Paris – the Audi e-Tron Spyder – which offers great economy and good performance from a diesel hybrid setup. We reported at the start of September that Audi were going to bring an e-Tron Spyder to Paris and we thought, ‘Yep, another showcase car without much real releveance’. But we […]
Range Rover Evoque 5 Door revealed. Sort of.
After leaked photos of the Range Rover Evoque were published online, Land Rover has issued a single official photo. It’s not the biggest deal in the world but, for whatever reason, Land Rover had decided that they would keep the 5 door version of the Range Rover Evoque wrapped up for a while longer. They […]
Peugeot HR1 Concept – Peugeot 2008?
Peugeot has revealed the Peugeot HR1 Concept at the Paris Motor Show, a frugal, compact, funky, urban crossover which could point the way to a Peugeot 2008. At first glance you could be forgiven for thinking that the Peugeot HR1 concept is a Nissan Juke. It has that same funky feel the Juke does. And […]
SEAT IBE EV Concept at Paris
SEAT unveils the SEAT IBE Electric Car Concept which looks like it points the way to the SEAT version of the VW Up! How good’s your memory? Does the SEAT IBE Concept ring a bell? It should, because SEAT rolled out the IBE at the last major European Motor Show back in March at Geneva. […]
Lamborghini Sesto Elemento: Official
Lamborghini has released information on their ultra light, carbon fibre supercar – the Lamborghini Sesto Elemento Well, we played the game with Lamborghini’s Paris Photo tease. We ran them all, even though we got bored. But when we got wind yesterday that the tease was for the Lamborghini Sesto Elemento we almost forgave Lamborghini for driving […]