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 – […]
New McLaren F1 in 2012.
The new McLaren dealers have been pushing McLaren to deliver them more than just the MP4-12C, so the new McLaren F1 should now arrive by 2012. Away from Formula One the focus at McLaren recently has been about building their new ‘Factory’ for producing a new line of cars. And the push in to the […]
Audi R8 Spyder – now available as semi-skimmed 4.2 V8
As expected, Audi are to make a V8 version of the R8 Spyder. No price confirmed but on sale late Summer 2010. It never takes a genius to work out what Audi plans to do with every model in its range – expand it. And if they haven’t got a model in their range that […]
Aston Martin DB9 Facelift revealed
Aston Martin has given the DB9 a facelift for 2010 / 2011. But don’t worry. It’s very subtle. The DB9 is still gorgeous. Remarkably, the Aston Martin DB9 has been with us since 2003. Yet it still conspires to look as fresh and appealing – and let’s face it, just downright beautiful – as it did when […]
Toyota’s Hiromu Naruse dies in LFA Nurburgring accident
Toyota’s Chief Test Driver Hiromu Naruse has been killed after crashing the Lexus LFA Nurburgring he was driving on the 410 near the Nurburgring. Frankly, we’re not too sure of all the details, but it appears that Hiromu Naruse, Toyota’s Chief Test Driver – and Akio Toyoda’s personal driver – has been killed on a […]
Mercedes SLS AMG E-Cell – First prototype
Mercedes has revealed the first running prototype of its electric Gullwing Supercar – the Mercedes SLS AMG E-Cell – resplendent in its tennis-ball yellow paint job. We called it the Mercedes SLS AMG eDrive when we first talked about an electric SLS Gullwing last year. Although to be fair that’s what Mercedes called it when they gave […]
New Lotus Esprit about to debut?
Lotus are promising the “…evolution of an icon” at the Paris Motor Show. Are we finally about to get the new Lotus Esprit? The truth is we don’t actually know. As far as a new Lotus Esprit goes, we’re pretty sure Lotus signed the Esprit off for production late last year after the Evora – which needed […]
New Porsche 928 revealed?
Does a sketch of what looks like a cut-down, 2-door Porsche Panamera on a Porsche website signpost a new Porsche 928? It’s a fair question when you see the sketch above – is this the new Porsche 928? Especially when you learn that this sketch was produced by Porsche and is in the header of […]
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 […]
McLaren UK Dealers named
McLaren has revealed that its three UK dealerships – Manchester, London and Birmingham – will be run by Sytner, Jardine and Rybrook respectively. Last month McLaren trailed a bit of info on the setup of the McLaren dealer network round the world, although it wasn’t naming names at that point. But now it has. The […]