The new Lotus Emira is revealed as the last ICE car from Lotus, a successor to all the current Lotus models with up to 400bhp and prices from £60k. It’s a few months since learnt that Emira is the name of the new Lotus sports car, replacing all that Lotus currently offers, and the last […]
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Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port to build electric vans for Vauxhall, Opel, Peugeot and Citroen
Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port plant is to become the first Stellantis plant to build solely electric vans for Stellantis, including Opel, Peugeot and Citroen. Following on from the news that Nissan is creating a huge EV centre in the North East, it’s the North West’s turn to get some good news: Stellantis announces the Vauxhall Plant […]
Dacia’s ‘Shockingly Affordable’ prices rack up 200,000 UK sales in eight years
Eight years on from the first Dacias arriving in the UK, Dacia celebrates the delivery of the 200,000th Dacia in the UK, a Dacia Sandero Stepway Prestige. There was a time when Dacia, Renault’s budget brand, didn’t sell anything in the UK and the only way most knew they even existed was thanks to Top […]
New BMW 2 Series Coupé teased, rather pointlessly, ahead of Goodwood FoS debut
The new BMW 2 Series Coupé, due to debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this week, returns for a new tease ahead of that debut. The whole ‘Tease’ thing for new cars is a bit of an oddity in a world where the interwebs have already divulged more than the car makers’ teases do, […]
Bugatti Rimac is OFFICIAL – owned by Rimac and Porsche
Rimac and Bugatti combine to make Bugatti Rimac LLC – 55% owned by Rimac and 45% by Porsche – with EV tech development in Rimac Technology. It’s getting on for 10 months since we reported that Rimac was planning to buy Bugatti. And now it has, effectively, although in partnership with Porsche. The newly-formed Bugatti […]
Electric Citroen e-SpaceTourer MPV gets MASSIVE £14k price cut
The electric Citroen e-Spacetourer MPV gets a massive price cut with the new e-Spacetourrer Business Edition costing £14k less than the outgoing models. MPVs may not be very fashionable at the moment, but if you’re a business ferrying lots of people around – or have a very large family – they are pretty unbeatable at […]
UK New Car Registrations UP in June, but DOWN on 10-year June Average – Blame ‘Covid and Chips’
New car registrations in the UK rose by 28% in June compared to June 2020, but Covid hangover and Chip shortages hampered recovery. As you’d expect, new car registration in June easily surpassed those in June 2020 when car dealers were grappling with a new way of working amid the Covid pandemic. A year on, […]
Electric Porsche Taycan can lose its ‘Spark’ – 43,000 recalled
The Porsche Taycan, Porsche’s first electric car, is being recalled to fix faulty software which can cause a total loss of power. 43,000 Taycans affected. It’s getting on for two years since the Porsche Taycan was revealed as Porsche’s first electric car, and mighty impressive it is. Now with a range of models from the […]
Electric Volkswagen ID.3 and ID.4 range shake-up brings actual choice
Volkswagen’s electric offerings – the VW ID.3 and VW ID.4 – get a major range shake-up that abandons fixed specs and delivers more choice. Car makers have always loved a long options list to tempt buyers into spending far more than they intend, but as we see the acquisition of cars emulating a phone contract […]
Abarth 695 Esseesse – a new limited-run of Abarth’s take on the Fiat 500
The Abarth 695 Esseesse arrives as a limited run Abarth 695, adding styling tweaks, reduce weight and more downforce. Fiat may be heading down the EV road with its new electric Fiat 500, but its performance brand, Abarth, isn’t up for that, at least not yet. Instead, it continues to make hugely fun performance models, […]