Not very long ago, buying a flagship luxury saloon the likes of the Audi A8 and fitting it with the small engine would have been seen as a poor choice leading to various issues in dealing with a lack of power and lead to a cheap image. It seems like the Germans at Audi are
The 2012 Ford Focus ST model is being tested seriously and spy photographers just can’t seem to get enough of it so here’s another sampling. As we can see, the car is still wearing camouflage and even if it’s the lightest of versions a manufacturer imposes on soon to be released models it is still
One of MR Car Design’s employees must have had a very boring day on the school run or a picnic in the company of a VW T5 Transporter. As a result of the sort of frustration you get with a miniature bus, the tuners turned it into the opposite concept, an over-sized sports car.
Globalization, gotta love it, this why we can see more and more models from one continent popping up on others. As recently the trend seems to focus on how European models get rebadged and sold off dealer lots in the United States and what’s happening with the Opel Astra GTC.
We’re still trying to understand why Toyota have been telling us about the FT-86 for so long and we don’t really have any hard facts on it. We just might have some now though, as the Japanese have finally pushed through for us and confirmed some of the speculated components going into it.
The Japanese at Subaru can’t really complain about the Impreza paying off its development effort, but they do have the right frame of mind. With the 2012 Subaru Impreza just around the corner, rumor is going round about how the company expects the sales increase to be quite substantial.
The Germans must still be smarting a little bit over whatever happened back in the Second World War, especially since the Americans sort of intervened on the whole situation. Why would I say that? Because the 2011 BMW X1, a very attractive model from Bavaria seems to be reluctant towards appearing on the U.S. market.
Ford’s cult car of late, the Focus ST is about to benefit from the facelift that’s already available on the majority of the somewhat duller lineup. The 2012 Ford Focus ST revealed itself in “close to production” concept shape at the Geneva Motor Show but since then, the Blue Oval has been tinkering with it.
Nearly everywhere you go in the automotive business you’ll get to see downsizing of engines, mostly for economical and ecological concerns. This reaches out even to the business sector and worse still (in their imagination) to the Americans, as Audi will now demonstrate.
Due to the updates within the 2011 BTCC regulations every single of the teams running in this competition have had to make significant changes to their cars. Toyota’s efforts at the competition are handled by the privateer teams Dynojet Racing and Hughes Motorsport/Speedworks.
Chevrolet’s Cruze is a pretty fascinating vehicle, but since Holden is going to sell it in Australia it does need something specific of a selling point. That’ll be the reason behind Holden currently developing a performance variant of the Cruze as they’ve just announced and showed us a few pictures.
Those of us who really do have a long memory still know about a sporting company called Alpine that worked under Renault’s wing. Spin the clock forward several decades and Renault is looking to create a new sport brand and you’d imagine that would be the name they pick.
Provided your feeling some family size pressure and you’re now considering a minivan, you may be pleased to know how Seat’s Alhambra just got a really tasty option added to the mix. The latest model of the Seat multi-purpose people carrier fill it up with stuff Alhambra gets the latest four wheel drive system available
The legendary Japanese roadster will soon see British showroom floors in a couple of special edition variants. Borrowing its name from a Japanese holiday island this particular special edition will be called the Mazda MX-5 Miyako.
You know the Audi A1 will soon be seen around the world and it’s already being famous. And what you should now know is that a hot S1 version which will compete with the Mini Cooper S.
Today was the first time the world could lay their eyes on the latest incarnation of VW’s Jetta sedan, the 2011 model that will soon hit stateside showrooms this October. For now, information on European availability and pricing is not available but there’s still enough to keep us busy.
