Top Gear has been secretly breeding Stigs on the Top Gear Farm. And they have a new Stig ready to do the Top Gear Live Shows It was always going to be a problem when Ben Collins outed himself as the man in the Stig suit and decided he wanted to be recognised as actually being The […]
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Lamborghini Murcielago production ends
Lamborghini are celebrating the final Murcielago – a Lamborghini LP670-4 – rolling off the production line at Sant’Agata. Despite the Lamborghini Jota (or Lamborghini LP700-4 as we may now have to call it) failing to make the Lamborghini stand at last month’s Paris Motor Show, the news that the last Lamborghini Murcielago has now rolled […]
BMW Vision EfficientDynamics gets green light +video
BMW has announced that their hybrid diesel electric supercar from Frankfurt 2009 – The BMW Vision EfficientDynamics – will go in to production in 2013. Probably the biggest show stopper at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show was the BMW Vision EfficientDynamics Concept, which offered a diesel hybrid setup withn two electric motors, M3 levels of […]
Skoda Octavia & Skoda Superb go 4×4
Skoda Octavia nd Skoda Superb get 4×4 platform and DSG ‘box on 2.0 TDI CR 140bhp We had a shout out for Skoda and what they do to make VW product their own when we ran story the other day on the new advert for the Skoda vRS, which shows how individual and inspired Skoda […]
2012 Buick Regal GS Revealed
GM has revealed the US version of the Vauxhall Insignia VXR – the Buick Regal GS – ahead of the Los Angeles Motor Show. Yes, I know. News on a Buick isn’t anything to get too excited about unless you’re the wrong side of sixty. And a resident of the US. But that was ‘Old’ […]
Audi A4 Black Edition, A5 Black Edition & A4 Technik launch
Audi has announced a Black Edition for the A4 and A5 offering trendy gloss black cosmetics and upgraded wheels plus a new trim level for the A4 – the Audi A4 Technik. The whole ‘Black Edition’ thing is a big seller at the moment. We had Jaguar launch the Black Pack for the XKR a […]
Nissan Cube’s woeful sales: Are they surprised?
Nissan are nursing dismal sales for the Nissan Cube in Europe despite stunning sales in Japan. But that’s because they’ve not allowed for cultural differences. Let’s start with the good news for Nissan and the Nissan Cube – it’s a big success in Japan, having sold more than a million in the last decade. It offers the Japanese a […]
Jaguar XF Black Pack revealed
Following on from the success of the Black Pack option on the XKR, Jaguar are now offering the Black Pack on the XFR and XF Diesel S The Jaguar XF has been a huge success for Jaguar, selling more recently in the UK than the comparable BMWs and Mercedes. And justifiably so, it’s a very […]
Tesla SUV in 2014 – Tesla Model X
Tesla has revealed that they are planning on building an electric SUV – the Tesla Model X – based on the same platform as the yet to arrive Model S. Tesla is a strange amalgam of a Silicon Valley company and a car maker. With a distinct leaning to the Silicon Valley side of the equation. Not […]
Nissan LEAF makes Car of the Year 2011 shortlist. Stupid.
The yet-to-be-released Nissan LEAF bizarrely makes the shortlist for the 2011 Car of the Year Has the world gone completely barking mad? Why on earth would the Car of the Year panel include a yet-to-be-released electric car – The Nissan LEAF – which is inferior in every way to all the other cars on the […]