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. Not only is that happening,...
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. What gives me the liberty...
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. When the 2012 Audi A6 goes on sale in the U.S. it will also be offered with...
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. Their latest of creations sports a new engine, turbocharged of course as is fashionable these days with...
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. The hot version of the Holden Cruze is supposed to...
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. As it happens, the French think otherwise and they chose to...
