The British at Bentley may have had it their own way with the dodging of emissions regulations and so on but in the end they kind of ended up losing. Nowadays they are pretty much forced to face the music and start delivering cars with smaller, more efficient engine soon or there's trouble. Enter the Bentley Continental's new V8 engine....
Few days ago we talked a special edition of the current Mercedes S-Class, a model which is specially designed for the Italian market and comes to celebrate the successful life of the model considering that the next generation S-Class is very close to us. Mercedes called it the Grand Edition, more details being available here. If the special edition developed...
At the same official shindig where the i3 EV was unveiled, BMW revealed the bigger brother, the i8. A joint article would have probably been fitting but I do have a special treatment for the latter so we'll go a different route. You see, while the i3 and the i8 come from the same family and even share some technology,...
It's been so long since we've first heard about the BMW i3 EV concept and we've had such a great number of occasions on it being tested and spied that it's almost boring. Really, I feel this way and it's why I'm not very impressed with the Bavarians finally doing the complete unveiling bit, the sharing of details and so...
We got some special news for the North American citizens with a more eco-friendly approach when it comes to transportation. Daimler's subsidiary, Car2Go, a company which offers carsharing services will bring a fleet of Smart ForTwo electric models in North America, a total of 300 units following to be available. According to the official details, the car rental company will...
It's been a long time since we lastly talked about a tuning package created for a model bearing Jaguar's badge but today we have the opportunity to present a new styling kit, this time developed by the Japanese specialists from Wald International. The tuning house decided that it is the right time to revise the Jaguar XJ X350 and this...
The German tuning house decided to create a tuning kit for the current Maserati Gran Turismo S, a package called Superior Black Edition which brings both aesthetic and performance upgrades for the Italian supercar. The performance tweaks are not very impressive but the styling improvements significantly increase the car's appearance and make it more attractive if it hasn't been yet....
Exceptions to MPVs being boring exist, most of them happen when instead of getting a daily chore of ferrying loud kids, they act as a bus for more or less loud business executives. That's where stuff gets really interesting as the interior fittings and equipment becomes impressive and they actually get used instead of destroyed. One of the finest of...
I'll take my chances on this one, unless you're a Dakar rally or Top Gear enthusiast, you probably won't have heard about Bowler. They are a very small British company which specializes in very tough off-road monsters that are based on Land Rover products. Since for years they've been making off-road racing cars with a not inconsiderable amount of success,...
The Americans from Ford decided to unveil the 2012 model year Explorer, a model which receives some improvements in terms of equipping but also gets a new 2.0-liter EcoBoost unit with class-leading EPA rating of 28 mpg on the highway. Actually, the 2012 Ford Explorer is the first model in the range to get the new fuel efficient four-cylinder unit....
