Newswheel staff :: 31 August 2006 :: Filed under Coupe, Audi, Audi TT, Europe & UK
New bumpers front and rear and RS4-aping alloys. We give you Audi’s S-Line styling and (we presume) chassis package for the new TT coupe. Meanwhile, rumours of a high performance TT variant approach critical mass…
Newswheel staff :: 31 August 2006 :: Filed under Saloon, Bentley, Bentley Arnage, Europe & UK, US
With the Conti GT-based Flying Spur grabbing all the headlines, it’s easy to forget about the tiring Arnage saloon. But Bentley hasn’t. The old girl soldiers on thanks to a range of upgrades for 2007…
Neville Contractor :: 30 August 2006 :: Filed under Coupe, Hatchback, Volkswagen, Volkswagen Scirocco, Europe & UK, US
SCIROCCO. A distinctly unpromising jumble of letters in a game of Scrabble, hot Sicilian winds and double word scores aside. But an evocative name to VW-fancying car enthusiasts across the globe. So evocative, in fact, VW reckons the abbreviated “Iroc” moniker of this Paris Motor Show-headed concept will be enough to whet appetites for its much rumoured PQ35 platform-based production sports coupe, due out in 2008. Yup, it’s the new Scirocco…
Neville Contractor :: 29 August 2006 :: Filed under Saloon, Alpina, BMW, BMW 3 Series, Europe & UK
Most card-carrying driving enthusiasts would sooner suck diarrhoea through a farmer’s sock than settle for four-pot diesel power. But if needs (and tax and company car restrictions) must, you might as well have the best. And this is probably it – the new BMW 3 Series-based Alpina D3, now on sale in Blighty for £26,995…
Newswheel staff :: 24 August 2006 :: Filed under Jaguar, JCB, Europe & UK, US
Well, we certainly wouldn’t have picked this one. But British construction machinery manufacturer JCB has announced an interest in acquiring Jaguar from FoMoCo. A spokesman has today confirmed a report in the FT that JCB would be happy to relieve Ford of Jaguar on one condition: it must be split and sold separately from Land Rover…
Newswheel staff :: 23 August 2006 :: Filed under Four wheel drive, SUV, Land Rover, Land Rover Defender, Land Rover Range Rover Sport, Europe & UK, US
Land Rover has dropped Ford’s impressive new oil burning bent eight lump into Range Rover Sport to create the Sport TDV8. Compared with the existing TDV6 (which lives on) the new engine cranks out around 40 per cent more power and torque and still returns just about bearable fuel economy – 25.5mpg for the combined cycle. Meanwhile, the crusty but lovable Defender has once again received a minor makeover…
Newswheel staff :: 23 August 2006 :: Filed under Crossover, SUV, Mercedes Benz, Mercedes Benz R-Class, Europe & UK, US
Ponder, if you will, the current Mercedes-Benz SUV model range: the old-timer G-Class, revamped M-Class and the crazy-big new GL-Class. Suffice to say, M-B has plenty of SUV metal on its books. So, where exactly does that leave the six-seater, all-wheel-drive R-Class? Somewhere spanning the amorphous “crossover” divide between an upper-segment family, executive or estate car and an SUV or an MPV, that’s where. But precisely what kind of customer is supposed to offload the significant sum of £74,115 on the new range-topping R, the R63? It isn’t exactly obvious…
Newswheel staff :: 22 August 2006 :: Filed under Rover, Europe & UK
Sold for an undisclosed sum to an unidentified buyer. Such is the miserable fate of the Rover car brand. BMW announced today that it had come to a preliminary agreement to offload the rights to Rover. According to the AP newswire, Ford Motor Company now has 90 days to exercise its first dibs option on the brand – a right it acquired when it purchased Land Rover from BMW…
Newswheel staff :: 22 August 2006 :: Filed under SUV, Honda, Honda CR-V, Europe & UK, US
No technical details have been released as yet. But in the mean time point your peepers at these first leaked images of Honda’s next CR-V mid-sized SUV. The most significant styling cue is probably the slopping side window, no doubt designed to give the car a more dynamic profile. However, there’s also more than a hint of Volvo XC-90 in them there tail lights…
Newswheel staff :: 21 August 2006 :: Filed under Mid / rear engine sportscar, Porsche, Porsche Cayman, Ruf, Europe & UK, US
Nice car, the Cayman coupe. But it’s not exactly a classic beauty. Nope, it suffers from a few too many fussy details and awkward styling cues to earn that accolade. But what if you could buff out the dodgy side air intake, clean up the front bumper, add a pair of elegant flying buttresses and delete the crappy rear-quarter window? Well, you’d have a winner and it would be called the Studio Torino RK Coupe…
Newswheel staff :: 21 August 2006 :: Filed under SUV, Porsche, Porsche Cayenne, US
Porsche’s US sales division has opted not to bother with a 2007 model year update for the Cayenne SUV. Dealers will continue to sell the 2006 variant until the facelifted 2008 Cayenne arrives early next year. Of course, this probably says as much about the rather contrived model year system in the US as it does about flagging Cayenne sales…
Newswheel staff :: 19 August 2006 :: Filed under Ford, Hyundai, Jaguar, Europe & UK, US
Thanks, but no thanks. So, says Korean car maker Hyundai in response to mounting rumours that it would relieve Ford Motor Company of the Jaguar brand. The Hyundai mothership released a statement yesterday categorically denying it had any interest in acquiring the near-catatonic cat.
Newswheel staff :: 16 August 2006 :: Filed under Coupe, Dodge, Dodge Challenger, Europe & UK
It may be speculation based upon supposition. But it’s still an intriguing suggestion. Could the Dodge Challenger go on sale in 2008 for just $30,000? The information comes courtesy of a Chrysler promotion in the US known as the “Ask Dr Z” sweepstakes (the doctor in this case being the moustachioed Dr Dieter Zetsche of DaimlerChrysler). According to the fine print of the competition, the “approximate retail value” of one of the prizes, namely a 2008 Dodge Challenger R/T, is just $30,000…
Newswheel staff :: 15 August 2006 :: Filed under Saloon, Peugeot, Europe & UK
A carbon chassis and a rear-mounted, wide-angle V12 turbo diesel kicking out 700bhp. Oh, and a top speed in excess of 300kph. Call us a bunch of weather-beaten, cynical old hacks. But if Peugeot ever builds anything that even remotely resembles this new diesel powered super-saloon concept we’ll happily guzzle the contents of a worn out Halfords car battery, circa 1984…
Newswheel staff :: 14 August 2006 :: Filed under Hatchback, BMW, Mini, Europe & UK, US
We’ll bin the flowery prose-infested preamble and cut to the chase on this one. Following the recent preview event in Holland, BMW has unsheathed the first completely undisguised images of the all-new R56 generation Mini…
Neville Contractor :: 14 August 2006 :: Filed under SUV, Land Rover, Land Rover Defender, Europe & UK
Ford Motor Company’s balance sheet may be boring its way inexorably to the earth’s core. But the Blue Oval does have one brand that’s still pulling in a few pounds: Land Rover. The launch of the second-gen Freelander, the new Rangie Sport HST and new, more powerful diesel engines in the Range Rover prove that the boys from Solihull are busy. Now they have turned to the elderly Land Rover Defender, which is in desperate need of a mojo injection…
Simon Davies :: 12 August 2006 :: Filed under Mid / rear engine sportscar, Porsche, Porsche 911, Ruf, Europe & UK, US
There’s no such thing as too much power. And there’s always space for yet another infinitesimally differentiated high-performance riff on the ever-green Porsche 911. Such is the philosophy of Porsche tuning company Ruf. Give it up, therefore, for Ruf’s latest creation, the R Kompressor…
Newswheel staff :: 09 August 2006 :: Filed under Mid / rear engine sportscar, Lamborghini, Lamborghini Gallardo, Lamborghini Murcielago, Europe & UK, US
Sales up by 45 per cent year-on-year for the Jan to June 2006 period. That’s a significant success for Lamborghini by any measure and confirmation that membership of the sprawling VW empire is suiting the the Italian sports car outfit rather nicely…
Newswheel staff :: 09 August 2006 :: Filed under SUV, BMW, BMW X5, Europe & UK, US
Like it or loathe it, BMW’s X5 was the original driver-friendly antidote to the usual slack-at-the-tiller land yacht SUVs. In fact, the first X5 is so good that the new model, unveiled by BMW today, will need to be technological tour de force to stand a chance of seriously improving on it. Which is handy…
Newswheel staff :: 04 August 2006 :: Filed under Mini MPV / People carrier, Citroen, Citroen C4 Picasso, Europe & UK
Citroen has fired off the first salvo of PR snaps and verbiage for the new C4 Picasso compact SUV prior to the car’s official launch in September. The design ethic for the latest Picasso sticks with Citroen’s contemporary but somewhat discombobulated family look. A huge panoramic windscreen that cuts into the roof and doubles vertical visibility for front seat passengers is probably the car’s numero uno party trick…
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