As you have probably realised by now, we are not huge fans of the (S)crappage scheme. It’s poorly drafted and really just a sop to the pressure put on the Government to emulate what the Germans did. And in truth it probably only helps buyers of budget cars and the dealers supplying them (but of […]
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BMW 5 Series GT – Leaked images ahead of launch
As we’ve discussed countless times, Mercedes and Audi seem to be filling niches in the car market no one even realised existed. But BMW is playing catch-up quickly. Many would say that the X6, and in particular the BMW X6M, is a car that fills a niche that doesn’t exist – but we have another […]
New Volkswagen Golf Estate revealed
We’ve had a chunk of VW releases lately, and several on the new Volkswagen Golf. We reported earlier on the VW Golf GTI Worthersee Concept car, and this afternoon early information and pictures have surfaced of the next Golf release – the new VW Golf Estate. Planned to be released at the end of the […]
Mitsubishi Lancer EVO X FQ330 SST launched
Mitsubishi has decided that there is a hole to fill in its Evo X range, so it has introduced the Mitsubishi Lancer EVO X FQ330 SST, to fit in between the FQ300 and the FQ360. The Mitsubishi Lancer EVO X FQ330 SST offers an increase of 29bhp over the FQ330, and features Mitsubishi’s new six-speed […]
Rolls Royce Ghost creates new jobs
We’ve seen lots on the Rolls Royce Ghost over recent months. From spy shots earlier in the year, to the reveal at Geneva and then a barely camouflaged Ghost at Dover Docks last week, it’s obvious that work on the production-ready version of the RR Ghost is well under way. But the RR Ghost will […]
VW bring Golf GTI and Polo Concepts to Wörthersee
The Wörthersee Tour is in full swing in Austria, and as we told you yesterday Audi has brought along the Audi Q5 Wörthersee Concept to show off, along with a handful of its latest models. But this is a VW as well as Audi show, so Volkswagen has gone one better and brought along a pair […]
New McLaren Car Plant confirmed
When McLaren revealed the formation of the McLaren Automotive Company last month, they said that they intended building 1,000 cars a year by 2011, rising to 4,000 a year by 2015. But where? McLaren said they needed to build a new facility – after all, the current Woking set-up certainly couldn’t handle that sort of […]
Volkswagen Scirocco R revealed
Well, we were close with our story on the Volkswagen Scirocco R20T. But it looks like VW are dropping the ’20T’ bit and sticking with VW Scirocco R. Fine by us. Car names are getting so long and convoluted it’s nice to see a car maker actually using something straightforward for a change. And unlike […]
Vauxhall Insignia VXR Sports Tourer revealed
Still on a Vauxhall tag this morning – Vauxhall are busy bunnies at the moment. We had the reveal of the new Vauxhall Astra last week, and the news that the Police are taking off-the shelf Insignia Sports Tourers. And maybe plod new something we didn’t- – that Vauxhall were to reveal the Vauxhall […]
UK Scrappage Scheme – get a cheap Nissan GT-R!
We’re not exactly fans of the Scrappage Scheme here, but we can see a degree of logic in it. But the system is too poorly conceived (and puts too big an onus on the car makers to match the taxpayers contribution) to be really effective. Yes, the Government put some conditions in place to stop […]