March 29, 2024
VW

UK pricing available on the 2011 VW Passat

Knowing their Passat is a volume car and considering the great quality feel it features in models of late it’s no wonder that the Germans at Volkswagen decided to allow people to place orders already. The first market open to orders will be the British one and that’s ok, except ordering usually requires something extra.

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Aston Martin

Aston Martin Cygnet gets green light for production

It seems that the little city car the coolest brand in the UK was showcasing at this spring’s Geneva Motor Show will hit the production line soon. Back at the infamous motor show this was nothing more than a Toyota IQ based luxury supermini done by Aston Martin as an attempt to keep in tune

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Bentley Luxury Cars

Bentley changing 18 month product cycle

The people over at luxury British manufacturer, Bentley, have announced that they will be slowly moving away from its 18 month product cycle. Why is that? Well mostly because according to a recent study they’ve conducted among their customers revealed that owners of Bentley products tend to drive their sports cars for an average of

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Volvo

2010-2011 Volvo recall

Yesterday the Swedes over at Volvo made an unfortunate announcement concerning a recall of some 2010 and 2011 model year vehicles that have been sold worldwide. The recall concerns 29,299 cars worldwide of which 536 have been sold in the U.S. and around 6,700 finding home in the U.K.

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Renault

Renault Clio Gordini pricing for the U.K.

Gordini is one of the names that is closely related to Renault’s motor sport actions that has fallen under the radar for quite some time now. It would appear that the French manufacturer is attempting a revival with the latest generation of Clio and a spec level that is most likely full of the “puppy

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Acura Honda

Honda introduces new engine for 2011 LMP2 race cars

The Automobile Club de l’Ouest announced revised technical regulations that will go into effect for the 2011 season and the current LMP1 and LMP2 classes will be combined into a single class based on the current P2 regulations but with smaller racing engines. The new rules also imply the creation of a new P2 class

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Porsche Tuning

Porsche Cayenne Coupe SUV Special teaser

Here’s a pretty interesting set of renderings, mostly because these aren’t just some photo editor being bored but a teaser for the future product of a British coachbuilder. The UK-based tuning house responsible for the future two door Cayenne is called Merdad and is owned by someone who previously worked with Uwe Gemballa.

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Lexus Toyota

11500 Lexus LS to be recalled

The recall Saga continues as Toyota Motor Corporation has just announced that it plans to call in 11500 Lexus LS worldwide spread over four models in order to fix some issues related to the steering wheel system of the car. The models in question are the LS460, LS460L and the LS600h, LS600hL hybrids, all equipped with

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Chevrolet

New Chevrolet Captiva LTZ version for UK Market

The British are getting a new top of the line model for the Chevrolet Captiva and it’ll get a trim-level name that’s quite often found on the stateside Chevrolet cars. The Chevrolet Captiva LTZ version will powered by a 2 liter turbo diesel engine producing 150 horsepower matted to either a five-speed manual or automatic transmission.

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Jaguar Land Rover

Jaguar and Land Rover sales boom

Jaguar Land Rover have been recording massive sales increases, in fact the registered growth in April when compared to last years situation is 61%. Tata Motors, who of course own the British car maker have said that worldwide unit sales last month were 17,909, with Jaguar accounting for 3,559 units; the same as last year

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Peugeot

Peugeot 406 Club meeting out to set record

The UK Peugeot 406 Coupe Club see this year as a massive opportunity to set a record for the largest gathering of 406 Coupes ever since this year there is a triple celebration involved that all revolves around the same date. The triple anniversary in question includes 200 years since Peugeot was founded, 80 years

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Mitsubishi

Mitsubishi Outlander facelift pricing announced

Mitsubishi’s British division have just announced some prices for the updated Japanese crossover. Along with the new prices Mitsubishi UK have also pinpointed some of the technical underpinnings of the “new” car and stated that this hestetics, as you can see for yourself, now line up with the rest of the range.

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MG

MG Zero Concept

Yet again, it’s the Beijing Motor Show that’s the event responsible for the announcement of this supermini concept car. MG, as we know, are owned by Chinese automotive manufacturer Nanjing so the launch being made here isn’t completely out of place.

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Chrysler Lancia

Lancia comes together with Chrysler

Yesterday, Fiat has had a presentation of it’s five year business plan has been full of surprises, one of which was Montezemolo resigning from his position as Fiat SpA chairman. Another unexpected piece of news from this presentation was in publishing the decision that would solve how the group will handle the selling and marketing

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Aston Martin

Aston Martin DB9 UK favorite car

Direct Line Car Insurance did a recent survey to mark the celebration of 25 years of existence and the poll had a very interesting question for the UK audience. Basically the survey set out to find out what is Great Britain‘s favorite car for the past 25 years that Direct Line has been around.

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