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Newswheel staff :: 28 February 2006 :: Filed under Front engine sportscar, Ferrari, Ferrari 599 GTB, Europe & UK, Trade shows, US
Yup, the Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano (that track-derived moniker suffix was unveiled at the show today) is one of those cars that has to be seen in person to be fully understood. Verily as we waded through the sea of carefully buffed Eurotrash gatecrashers swilling about Ferrari’s stand (you were dead right about that Tom…) and caught our first glimpse of the 599, we instantly realised the error of our ways. The 599 is sex on wheels. Well, as long as you choose the right alloys…
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Newswheel staff :: 28 February 2006 :: Filed under Cabriolet, SUV, Ford, Ford Focus, Ford S-Max, Europe & UK, Trade shows
Ford ripped the wraps off the S-Max and Focus CC a few hours ago. Of course, like most of the other cars due to debut at Geneva, the surprise had been spoiled by the release of official PR images prior to the show. Still, a first hand viewing always helps to sort the sheds from the sure things…
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Newswheel staff :: 28 February 2006 :: Filed under Mid / rear engine sportscar, Porsche, Porsche 911, Europe & UK, Trade shows, US
So, the new Porsche 911 Turbo will be among the quickest, if not the quickest, point-to-point four-wheeled machine on planet earth. On that we can all agree. But that doesn’t prevent it from looking like a tractor compared with its arch in-house rival, the lean and mean new GT3.
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Newswheel Staff :: 28 February 2006 :: Filed under Hatchback, Peugeot, Peugeot 207, Europe & UK, Trade shows, US
We’ll make a modest start to our coverage of the offensive display of conspicuous consumption that is the 2006 Geneva Motor Show with Pug’s new baby, the 207…
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Newswheel staff :: 27 February 2006 :: Filed under Trade shows
It’s travelling day today as Newswheel motors over to Switzerland with the rest of humanity, and a motoring hack or two, for the Geneva show. Keep your scanners peeled from first light tomorrow as we’ll be up at the arse of sparrows to bag all the hot launches quite literally as they happen…
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Newswheel staff :: 25 February 2006 :: Filed under Four-door coupe, Mercedes Benz, Mercedes Benz CLS, Europe & UK, US
Better late than never. M-B has jumped on the petrol direct injection bandwagon. Of course, calling it plain old direct injection won’t do, so it’s stratified-charged gasoline injection, or CGI for short, in Mercedes-Benz parlance. Anyway, Merc’s first DI engine has been dropped into the slinky CLS four-door coupe just in time for next week’s Geneva shindig. And the good news is that it’s both more powerful and more fuel efficient than the engine it replaces. Cross your fingers, folks, we may yet escape creeping death by diesel…
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Newswheel staff :: 24 February 2006 :: Filed under Cabriolet, Ford, Ford Focus, Europe & UK
And so the list grows. To the Peugeot 307 CC, Renault Megane Coupe Cabriolet, Vauxhall Astra TwinTop and VW Eos please add the new Ford Focus CC.
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Newswheel staff :: 24 February 2006 :: Filed under Mid / rear engine sportscar, Porsche, Porsche 911, Europe & UK, US,
We’ll never know whether Porsche planned it this way. If last week’s picture leakage hadn’t happened, perhaps Porsche might have held out until the Geneva show started. But the wraps have officially been taken off the 911 GT3. Forget the chintzy lash-up that is the new 911 Turbo (well, everything’s relative) and pilot your peepers towards the awesomeness that is the new GT3…
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Newswheel staff :: 23 February 2006 :: Filed under Coupe, Saab, Saab Aero-X, Europe & UK, US
As we slavishly reported earlier in the month, Saab is tooling up to demo its new design language at the Geneva show, in the form of a coupe. This coupe, in fact. Known as the Aero-X, leaked images have been doing the usual rounds on the intraweb and thus in the time honoured me-too tradition we present them to you…
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Newswheel staff :: 23 February 2006 :: Filed under Estate/Wagon, Four wheel drive, Audi, Audi A6, Audi AllRoad, Europe & UK, US
Clearly official PR photographs, but not apparently an official release. Audi is due to wheel out the new All Road at Geneva next week and while there are absolutely no technical deets in the wild, these leaked pictures do at least prove one thing – the vertical chrome grille inserts that first appeared in the TT Shooting brake concept could well become a default feature on many Audis…
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Newswheel staff :: 22 February 2006 :: Filed under Front engine sportscar, Aston Martin, Aston Martin DBS, Europe & UK, US
File this one under unconfirmed-but-very-plausible and then batten down the hatches. An image purporting to show the upcoming Aston DBS coupe has leaked onto the great interweb…
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Newswheel staff :: 22 February 2006 :: Filed under Cabriolet, Volkswagen, Volkswagen Eos, Europe & UK, US
So, the Peugeot 307, Renault Megane and Vauxhall Astra are all available with bona fide folding hard tops. But with all three sharing hand-me-down body panels with their deeply ordinary hatchback brethren, they’re permeated with an air of try hard desperation – you just know they’d have their own clothes if they could afford it. Enter the VW Eos. Sure, it’s little more than a re-jigged Golf. But it does boast fully bespoke tailoring all round. And UK pricing has just been revealed…
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Newswheel staff :: 22 February 2006 :: Filed under Cabriolet, Estate/Wagon, Four wheel drive, Audi, Audi A4, Europe & UK, US
A wagonised version of Audi’s M3-spanking RS4? We can jive with that. But despite the availability of an S4 drop-top, we still weren’t expecting the Germans to drop that screamer of a V8 into the bouffant buffer that is the A4 cabriolet…
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Newswheel staff :: 22 February 2006 :: Filed under Mid / rear engine sportscar, Lamborghini, Lamborghini Murcielago, Europe & UK, Trade shows, US,
Spare a thought for Lamborghini. What with the Pagani Zonda F, the Big Bad Bug, Porsche’s Carrera GT and the old enemy Ferrari going strong, not to mention the likes of the Koenigsegg CCX, supercar makers have to get up awfully early in the morning to make an impression these days. Indeed, the competition is now so hot that not even 631bhp is enough to allow this evil new Lambo to bust any top speed or acceleration records. But who cares, because the Murcielago LP640 is the baddest looking boy in town…
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Newswheel :: 21 February 2006
It wasn’t impressive when it was first unveiled back in October. And
the interveing months haven’t done it any favours. But BMW’s hard core,
run-out version of the current Mini, the John Cooper BMW and John
Cooper Works GP, will get its first public outing at Geneva next week.
Headline tech specs include 218bhp, that’s a massive 8bhp more than a
Cooper S Works, and – brace yourself for impact – weight savings of
40kg. Ho, and indeed, hum…
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Newswheel staff :: 21 February 2006 :: Filed under Cabriolet, Vauxhall, Vauxhall Astra, Europe & UK
Oh yes, it’s cheaper than its closest rivals. But not by much. The new folding hard-top equipped Astra Twintop can be yours for just £16,995. For that you get the base Twintop with a rather lethargic 1.6-litre petrol mill…
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Newswheel staff :: 21 February 2006 :: Filed under Estate/Wagon, Saloon, Audi, Audi A4, Europe & UK
Rejoice all ye corporate drones. If your company car budget doesn’t quite stretch to the 3.0-litre V6 A4 TDI, but you’re still desperate to break the shackles of four-cylinder bondage we have good news for you. Audi has improved the cheapo V6 diesel option for the A4 with an uprated 2.7-litre V6 engine.
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Newswheel staff :: 21 February 2006 :: Filed under MPV / People carrier, Ford, Ford Galaxy, Ford S-Max, Europe & UK,
Ford has pulled the wraps off its new MPV pairing, the Galaxy and S-Max. Yup, both cars are clearly built on the same basic architecture (they’re structurally identical from the B pillar forward). And they’re both chips off the SAV concept block (that’s the show car Ford wheeled out at last year’s Geneva shindig). But courtesy of some wheelbase tweaking and careful engine selection, Ford is pitching the two models at very different target markets.
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Newswheel staff :: 20 February 2006 :: Filed under BMW, Europe & UK, US
The stats are in and the speculation is over. BMW has dished the deets on its hotly anticipated new turbo engine, the N54 Biturbo. Contrary to recent rumours that the new straight-six lump would pack anywhere between 330bhp and 370bhp, BMW has capped output at a relatively modest 306 ponies.
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