Newswheel staff :: 24 January 2007 :: Filed under Porsche, Porsche 911, Porsche Boxster, Porsche Cayman, Europe & UK, US
That Porsche is the world’s most profitable car company is not news. But can the German sports car outfit really be banking $28,000 (£14,000) with every car sold? That’s what the analysts at B&D Forecast reckon…
Newswheel staff :: 23 January 2007 :: Filed under Saloon, Mercedes Benz, Europe & UK, US
It’s bigger, safer, faster, stiffer, pointier and, well, all the usual jazz. Mercedes has taken the wraps of the latest C-Class saloon and predictably it’s heaving with new technology and features including adaptive damping as standard on every car…
Newswheel staff :: 11 January 2007 :: Filed under Saloon, Lexus, Lexus IS, Europe & UK, US
If the LF-A supercar is a taste of what Lexus is planning for the future, the IS-F is the first tangible example of the brand’s effort to establish serious performance car cred. Based on the BMW S Series-sized IS saloon, the IS-F packs a 400bhp, 5-litre V8 and a whole raft of rather tasty chassis and drivetrain mods…
Newswheel staff :: 11 January 2007 :: Filed under Coupe, Front engine sportscar, Lexus, Lexus LF-A, Europe & UK, US
First shown in concept form at the Detroit show two years ago, Lexus’s various development versions of the LF-A V10 supercar have been seen banging in laps at the usual test facilities for around 18 months. Now the Japanese luxury brand has prepped a new concept revision that is said to be extremely close to the final series production variant…
Newswheel staff :: 11 January 2007 :: Filed under Saloon, Cadillac, Cadillac CTS, Europe & UK, US
For GM’s indigenous luxury brand, Cadillac, the only way is up when it comes to European and particularly UK sales. Just 200 Caddies found homes in Blighty in ’06. Still, that’s at least a 100 per cent boost over 2005. But will the all-new CTS be good enough to turn America’s only luxury into a genuine player in the olde worlde?
Newswheel staff :: 11 January 2007 :: Filed under Saloon, Jaguar, Europe & UK, Trade shows, US
Given the rollercoaster ride that is Ford’s day-to-day existence, we’ll forgive you for taking this with a pinch of salt. But the Blue Oval’s new head honcho Alan Mulally spake thusly to the assembled throng at the Detroit motor show: “Jaguar is not for sale at this time.” Meanwhile, the wraps have come off the company’s latest show car, the C-XF…
Newswheel staff :: 05 January 2007 :: Filed under Hatchback, Opel / Vauxhall, Opel / Vauxhall Corsa, Vauxhall, Europe & UK
Vauxhall extended its high performance brand to its entry level model this week with the launch of the Corsa VXR. Power comes courtesy of a blown 1.6-litre four-pot mill pumping out 189bhp and capable of pushing this compact hatch to 140mph…
Newswheel staff :: 04 January 2007 :: Filed under Cabriolet, Rolls Royce, Rolls Royce Phantom Drophead Coupé, Europe & UK, US
Are you seriously well heeled? In search of an honest, no-nonsense land yacht with nary a hint of sports car pretension? Well, give it up for the new Rolls Royce Phantom Drophead Coupé, a car so opulently well bred, we’re even willing to put aside our usual aversion to typographical minutiae and bequeath it with its rightful acute accent…
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