[nggallery id=2101 template=customlinks] Volvo has revealed the Lounge Console Concept at the Shanghai Motor Show featuring everything the pampered chauffeur-driven executive could need in an XC90. Volvo’s new XC90 signalled the real start of the ‘New’ Volvo, with new engines, new platforms and a new drive to challenge the German Premium marques wherever they can – […]
Porsche 918 Spyder hits 217mph on public roads (video)
The Porsche 918 Spyder – Porsche’s hybrid hypercar – has hit 350kph (217mph) on Australia’s Stuart Highway, taking just 40 seconds from 60-350kph. As far as we can work out, there are currently just three places you can take a road car and drive as fast as you want: the German Autobahn, the Isle of […]
Jeremy Clarkson: Toyota thank sacked Top Gear star (video)
With Jeremy Clarkson sacked – and the future of Top Gear unclear – Toyota have put together a short video to thank Jeremy for his years of torturing Toyotas. Toyota and Jeremy Clarkson haven’t always had the same opinion about Toyota cars, but the end of Jeremy’s current Top Gear run sees Toyota stepping up to […]
New Jaguar XF revealed after high-wire stunt in London
The new Jaguar XF has been revealed following its high-wire debut in London, looking like a grown-up XE and sporting big efficiency gains and equipment. [nggallery id=2079 template=customlinks] The new Jaguar XF won’t get its public reveal until the New York Motor Show next week, but it’s been sailing through the air over the Thames […]
New Ford Focus RS plays on mountain roads (video)
The new Ford Focus RS was finally revealed last month – and debuted at Geneva 2015 – and now we have a promo video for the RS, out playing on mountain roads. [nggallery id=2036 template=customlinks] We’ve been without a Ford Focus RS in the current Focus range, but Ford changed that with the long overdue […]
Range Rover Evoque Convertible revealed – deep under London (video)
The Range Rover Evoque Convertible has been revealed in a video shot under London in the new Crossrail tunnels ahead of a production debut in 2016. The Range Rover Evoque Convertible was revealed by Land Rover as a concept at Geneva in 2012, and despite it looking like a non-starter for production just a year later, Land Rover […]
2015 Bentley Continental GT & Flying Spur Facelift – cosmetic tweaks and more power for the W12
The Bentley Continental GT and Flying Spur range get cosmetic tweaks and cabin upgrades for 2015, with the W12 getting even more power. Debuts Geneva 2015. [nggallery id=2046 template=customlinks] Even when Bentley delivered the new Continental GT range in 2011, it wasn’t exactly a revolution in design, more a quiet evolution. So don’t expect the […]
Jaguar XE on track at Spa with Martin Brundle and Idris Elba (+video)
As part of Idris Elba’s ‘Road Trip’ from London to Berlin in the new Jaguar XE, he stops at Spa-Francorchamps to play out with F1 driver Martin Brundle. [nggallery id=1938 template=customlinks] As we reported last month, Jaguar has recruited actor Idris Elba to play with the new XE on a winter’s journey from London to Berlin, […]
New Ford Focus RS hooned and thrashed by Ken Block (video)
With the new Ford Focus RS finally revealed, Ford has released a video of ace hooner Ken Block taking the Focus RS by the scruff of the neck at a Ford Plant. The new Ford Focus RS has finally been revealed, and what better way to show what it’s really like than to give it to […]
Mercedes-AMG GT – Destroyer of Porsche 911 dreams (video)
[nggallery id=1939 template=customlinks] Mercedes has released a promo video for the new Mercedes-AMG GT, proclaiming it the destroyer of childhood dreams of the Porsche 911. Little boys – and big boys too – dream of Porsches, but Mercedes believe they’ve crushed those dreams with the arrival of the Mercedes-AMG GT, and they’re not shying away from taking […]