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Newswheel staff :: 28 September 2006 :: Filed under Mid / rear engine sportscar, Audi, Audi R8, Europe & UK, Trade shows, US
It’s a dead ringer for the Le Mans concept. It’s closely related to the Lamborghini Gallardo. And it’s powered by a V8 lump pinched from the RS4 saloon. In short, there’s nothing remotely surprising about it. But it’s still the no-contest star of the Paris show. Audi unsheathed the new R8 mid-engined sportster today and suffice to say the car is pure class from bumper to bumper…
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Newswheel staff :: 25 September 2006 :: Filed under Mid / rear engine sportscar, Lotus, Europe & UK, US
Worrying command-economy connotations aside, just what to make of Lotus’s recently announced new five-year plan? Well, Lotus is certainly the sort of company where a major meltdown has always seemed a realistic possibility, even during the rudely healthy heyday of the Elise. Whatever, the company has announced a new mid-range model for 2008, along with a new Lotus/Proton high performance car and the delay of the Esprit until the fag end of 2009…
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Newswheel staff :: 25 September 2006 :: Filed under Saloon, Ford, Ford Mondeo, Europe & UK, US
Location: Bahamas. Subject: The new Ford Mondeo. Scenario: Full on, pants down exposé. As ever with this sort of pre-launch image leakage, the unseen hand of viral marketing is a distinct possibility. But it’s almost certain the car you see before you is the final production version of the new Mondeo…
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Newswheel staff :: 25 September 2006 :: Filed under Coupe, BMW, BMW 3 Series, Europe & UK, US
US rag Automobile has done the decent thing and strapped BMW’s new turbo-charged 335i coupe to a dyno. The results are sobering. The magazine tested two cars, both of which comfortably beat BMW’s 306bhp flywheel claim and one briefly peaked at around 300 at-the-wheels ponies…
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Newswheel staff :: 22 September 2006 :: Filed under Saloon, Ford, Ford Mondeo, Europe & UK
Officially, it’s just a show car. But even Ford admits the New Mondeo concept, revealed today and currently being prepped for its worldwide debut at the Paris motor show next week, is a dead ringer for the all-new 2007 Mondeo…
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Newswheel staff :: 20 September 2006 :: Filed under Mid / rear engine sportscar, Lamborghini, Lamborghini Gallardo, Europe & UK, US
Lamborghini will show a special edition black-on-black (matte paint is used on the roof and wing tops) Gallardo at the Paris show. The short story is that the Nera is a showcase for Lambo’s range of personalisation options…
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Newswheel staff :: 20 September 2006 :: Filed under Four-door coupe, Porsche, Porsche Panamera
Following last week’s initial Porsche Panamera test mule outing, more detailed images of the car have emerged. The new snaps confirm that the core architecture of the car caught testing appears very likely to be that of the final production vehicle…
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Neville Contractor :: 20 September 2006 :: Filed under Hatchback, Mini MPV / People carrier, Suzuki, Suzuki Swift, Europe & UK
Another day, another concept to wow les car enthusiasts at the upcoming Paris motor show. The Suzuki Splash (geddit? It’ll make a spl…oh, the pathos) is a knowing wink in the direction of the Japanese outfit’s forthcoming effort for the mini people carrier segment, currently populated by the Hondauxhall Jaziva or, er, whatever…
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Newswheel staff :: 19 September 2006 :: Filed under Audi, Europe & UK
It’s the ultimate reward for our finely honed sense of badge snobbery. Audi has begun work on a £30 million, seven-story showroom on the outskirts of London. The 17,667 square metre building is being erected on the Great West Road in Middlesex and will be the largest Audi Centre on the planet…
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Neville Contractor :: 19 September 2006 :: Filed under Mid / rear engine sportscar, Javan Sports Cars, Javan Sports Cars R1, Europe & UK
If the sudden onslaught of French-stylee futuristic conceptualisation is making you a little homesick (you’d think there’s an impending motor show in Paris or something), check out this vision of the track-attack future from Javan Sports Cars, resurrected from the bygone Strathcarron project…
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Newswheel staff :: 19 September 2006 :: Filed under Mid / rear engine sportscar, Noble, Europe & UK
Worried about the ominous silence emanating from the Leicestershire HQ of small-time sports car outfit Noble? We have been, too. But fret no longer, all is (apparently) well. Although the details are currently borderline non-existent, Noble has revealed that a cash injection from an unnamed backer has secured the future of the company and also allowed for further development of the upcoming M15 supercar…
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Newswheel staff :: 18 September 2006 :: Filed under Ford, GM, US
The hard evidence remains to slim to none. But according to the usually
reliable industry bible that is Automotive News, the possibility of the
mother of all automotive mergers has been discussed by senior company
executives. Yup, Ford and GM could be doing the tango…
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Newswheel staff :: 15 September 2006 :: Filed under Mid / rear engine sportscar, Lotus, Lotus Europa S, Europe & UK
An Elise variant too far. That’s the overall impression from the first round of road tests of Lotus’s latest in UK print magazines. Indeed, it’s telling that weekly title Autocar doesn’t even give the Europa S pride of place on its cover. That’s got to be a first for a new Lotus model…
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Newswheel staff :: 14 September 2006 :: Filed under Hatchback, Honda, Honda Civic, Europe & UK
More refined but no quicker than the outgoing model. And available with dual-zone air con and cruise control. Not quite the road-racing repertoire you might expect from a new ricer-ready Type-R model from Honda (that’s enough r’s, Ed)…
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Newswheel staff :: 14 September 2006 :: Filed under Four-door coupe, Porsche, Porsche Panamera, Europe & UK, US
Three years ahead of its official 2009 launch date, the first full-body Porsche Panamera prototype has been caught testing. For now, there’s a solitary image orbiting the interweb, but it’s enough to confirm that the production Panamera won’t come close to the concept sketches released by Porsche in terms of sleekness. In fact, it’s a less aggressive shape with a more conservatively raked windscreen than existing four-door coupe designs such as M-B’s E-Class-based CLS…
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Newswheel staff :: 13 September 2006 :: Filed under Coupe, Mercedes Benz, Mercedes Benz CL coupe, Europe & UK
It’s hardly a surprising move. But it could produce a world beating package. Mercedes-Benz has shoe horned AMG’s new naturally aspirated V8 powerhouse into the sleek CL coupe. The CL63 joins the increasingly impressive list of Paris show debutants due to be unveiled at the end of the month…
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Newswheel staff :: 13 September 2006 :: Filed under SUV, Audi, Audi Q7, Europe & UK
It’s exactly what the world has been waiting for. A five-metre, 2.5-tonne SUV powered by a V12 production diesel engine pumping out precisely 493bhp and 737lb/ft. This, friends, is the new Audi Q7 V12 TDI…
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Newswheel staff :: 13 September 2006 :: Filed under MPV / People carrier, Volkswagen, Europe & UK
Ahead of its official public unveiling at the Paris auto show, VW has fired off images and initial technical details for the refreshed Touran compact MPV. It’s largely a cosmetic effort that involves grafting VW’s latest, more rounded and organic corporate protruding nasal implement onto the rather boxy and dowdy Touran…
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Newswheel staff :: 12 September 2006 :: Filed under Coupe, Front engine sportscar, Alfa Romeo, Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione, Europe & UK
The final production version of Alfa’s awesome Maserati-powered coupe will be unveiled at the Paris motor show later this month. Power comes courtesy of Maser’s familiar 90 degree bent-eight in 4.7-litre 450bhp trim…
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Newswheel staff :: 12 September 2006 :: Filed under Hydrogen, Saloon, BMW, BMW 7 Series, Europe & UK, US
Momentous news, folks. The Hydrogen 7 has passed both BMW’s obligatory Product Development Process and homologation under the usual rules and standards in both Germany and the ECE. In short, BMW’s first hydrogen-powered production car is ready for the road. But it’s not clear if it’s actually for sale…
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