Eagle E-Types have built the 1000kg Eagle E-Type Lightweight Speedster which will debut at this year’s Salon Prive, and can do 0-60mph in under 5 seconds. Two years ago Eagle, makers of the sort of E-Type Jaguar engineers would have given up at least a limb each to be able to build, took to Salon […]
Salon Privé 2011: Night Shift
Salon Prive 2011 – which has moved to Syon Park – will include an evening ‘Pommery Picnic’ on the Friday evening for the first time It may be a bit of an exagerration to say that Salon Privé – one of our favourite ‘Car’ outings – is going to include a night shift in 2011 […]
Salon Privé 2010: The Cars
Salon Prive 2010 started today with a huge assortment of Supercars and Hypercars littering the lawns of the Hurlingham Club in Chelsea. Salon Privé. It’s an event we are always happy to cheerlead because it offers a great day out in great surroundings together with some of the best and most interesting cars on the planet – […]
Salon Privé 2010: Hypercar Heaven – including Panther Six
This year’s Salon Privé will have a ‘Hypercar Concours’ which will include the Panther Six and the McLaren F1. It’s getting closer to Salon Privé 2010, that annual festival of all things ‘Super’ in cars at the Hurlingham Club, and this year there’s an extra reason to toddle along for a day of petrol and […]
Salon Prive: Atomik 500 UK Debut
A fun debut at this year’s Salon Prive is the Fiat 500 based Atomik 500, an electric city car with supercar performance. You wouldn’t necessarily think that a Fiat 500 based car would be the sort of thing that would turn up at Salon Prive, much less have its UK debut. But the Atomik 500 is no […]
Lexus LFA at Salon Privé 2010
Salon Privé has announced that this years show at the Hurlingham club will include the Lexus LFA. We reported last week that all the Lexus LFAs that are destined for the Japanese market have already been sold. We also hear from Lexus that they have had more ‘Expressions of Interest’ on the LF-A than they […]
Salon Privé confirmed for 2010
The Supercar Fest that is Salon Privé – complete with good grub and great surroundings – has been confirmed for July 2010. Car shows may be struggling at the moment, as is the whole car industry. But it tends to be the ‘Traditional’ car show that is seeing fewer visitors and less car maker interest. The […]
IFR Aspid – simply astonishing
We covered a fair bit of information on this year’s Salon Prive, from the Classic Cars on show to the drop dead gorgeous Eagle E Type Speedster. But one car we looked at, which we haven’t reported on, is the IFR Aspid. Not the best known name in the motoring world, IFR – and it’s […]
Eagle Jaguar E-Type Speedster revealed
As we’ve already reported, Salon Prive is a must-go event for the car passionate. But even the none car passionate understand the love that people have for the iconic Jaguar E-Type. And no one knows more about making the E-Types fit for the 21st century than Eagle. Eagle has been restoring and re-building Jaguar E-Types […]
Salon Prive 2009 – a Good ‘Do’
If ever I took my Dad out to an event and he enjoyed himself, he always said the same thing – “That was a good do. Thanks”. And so it is with Salon Prive – a ‘Good Do’, thanks. And it really is. Yes, the price of entry is a somewhat eye-watering £125-200 (depending on […]