The Audi A7 – a four door coupe – will launch in 2010 and we have spy video of the A7 winter testing in Norway. The Audi A7 seems to have been coming for a long time now. A swoopy, four-door coupe it’s yet another of Audi’s attempts at niche-filling, and is aimed straight at […]
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Suzuki Kizashi – Geneva launch
Suzuki are to launch their Mondeo-sized Kizashi at the Geneva Motor Show in March featuring a 185bhp 4-pot petrol engine. What’s the Suzuki Kizashi, I hear you ask? Well, it’s Suzuki’s attempt at making a D Segment Car (think Ford Mondeo or Vauxhall Insignia) and so far it’s only been available in Japan and North […]
VW R Performance Division to launch
It’s being reported that Volkswagen are to emulate Mercedes, Audi and BMW by creating a performance division – R GmbH. I’m not sure that the reports that Volkswagen are to create a specialist division for performance cars, R GmbH, will make any difference at all to the products hitting the roads. But I’ve been known […]
BMW 335iS (2011) Press Release
The New BMW 335is Coupe and Convertible Special high-performance models exclusively for North American marketplace. Woodcliff Lake, NJ – Confirming what may have been this year’s worst-kept auto industry secret, BMW announces the introduction of the BMW 335is Coupe and Convertible, each destined to take a place in history among the line of desirable, often […]
BMW 335iS (2011) prices +video
BMW has released pricing for the 2011 BMW 335iS plus we have the first video of the 335iS on the move. Normally we would have made the headline ‘BMW 355iS US prices’, but as BMW has decided that the new 335iS is going to be a North America car only we guess that anyone looking […]
Nissan Qashqai production increased – jobs created
Nissan is to increase production at their Sunderland plant to cope with demand for the 2010 Nissan Qashqai creating 400 jobs. We thought the original Nissan Qashqai was a decent car. It looks set to improve in a number of important areas when the 2010 Qashqai hits showrooms in March, and it seems that the […]
Mercedes SLS AMG – production begins
Mercedes has started full production of the SLS AMG ready for the first cars to arrive with customers at the end of March in Germany. I don’t know why – as Mercedes hadn’t previously announced it – but we guessed that they’d already started to put the Mercedes SLS AMG in to production ready for […]
Toyota sticky pedal fiasco recall – now it’s Europe
Toyota are now having to recall cars in Europe to address the issue of faulty accelerator mechanisms. 2.3 million cars in the US are affected. Toyota has been having huge problems with sticking accelerator issues on their cars in the US. It seems a faulty mechanism does – under certain circumstances – stick on or return too […]
Porsche BlueSport back on – but we knew that
VW boss Martin Winterkorn has again been quoted as saying that Porsche will build a ‘Baby Boxster’ – the Porsche BlueSport. Last year it was a case of ‘Spot the BlueSport’ as rumours ran wild over which parts of the VW Group (what happened to re-naming it Auto Union – another of last year’s rumours?) […]
Ford B-Max to go in to production
Ford are to start production of the Fiesta based B-Max crossover at their plant in Romania with the help of a €400 million Euro loan from the EIB. It’s been a while coming, but it looks like Ford’s replacement for the Fusion is now ready to go in to production in Romania as the Ford B-Max, sitting […]