Newswheel staff :: 31 July 2007 :: Filed under Estate/Wagon, Hatchback, Mini, Europe & UK
It may be a classic British icon. But the modern Mini is firmly in German hands. No use sulking, therefore, about the fact that BMW decided not to bother engineering the new Mini Clubman to suit our crazy right-hand drive needs. For the record, the Clubman is essentially a stretched Mini with increased luggage and passenger space. And it has a funky asymmetric suicide-door layout that ain’t exactly optimal for right-hand drive markets…
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Newswheel staff :: 26 July 2007 :: Filed under Coupe, BMW, BMW 3 Series
The evidence is anecdotal at best. But it seems the waiting list for BMW’s new M3 may be suffering something of an exodus in the UK. Following several lukewarm road test reports in the usual UK print press publications, web forums are buzzing with customers claiming to have cancelled orders.
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Newswheel staff :: 26 July 2007 :: Filed under Hatchback, Mini MPV / People carrier, Ford, Ford Focus
Ford’s really rather excellent C1 chassis underpins several winning products including the second generation Focus and C-Max compact MPV. So, it’s more than a little odd that the ailing US auto giant has so far declined to offer any C1-based models to US customers. However, reports now suggest that former England cricketer Ford’s incumbent bigwig Alan Mulally has had a change of heart. Both the 2nd gen Focus and the C-Max will be in US showrooms no later than 2011…
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Newswheel staff :: 26 July 2007 :: Filed under Crossover, BMW, BMW X6
BMW’s plans to build a crossover-coupe come SUV aren’t exactly news. But we’d no clear idea of what the new model will look like. Until now, that is. Those tireless, tree-dwelling snappers Brenda Priddy & Co have caught the X6, as it will be known, on the prowl in Germany.
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Newswheel staff :: 26 July 2007 :: Filed under Saloon, Porsche Panamera
The idea of a Porsche-built saloon car has always been more a matter of dollars and cents in the Cayenne idiom than about satisfying hard core driving enthusiasts. But we were still hoping the Panamera would be a looker. After all, the slinky CLS four-door coupe is arguably Mercedes’ finest looking model. Sorry to say therefore that the latest spy images of Porsche Panamera saloon reveal a distinctly dumpy design.
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Newswheel staff :: 20 July 2007 :: Filed under Cabriolet, Coupe, Front engine sportscar, Mercedes Benz
Tricky to know for sure what Mercedes' next move in the high-end sports car market will be. What with rumours of a mid-engine supercar resurrected from the failing ambers of the McLaren partnership and more recently reports of a new alloy front-engine coupe, a model that’s expected to share its underpinnings with the next SL…
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Newswheel staff :: 20 July 2007 :: Filed under Crossover, Ford
It may be all doom, gloom and bottom-dwelling balance sheets Stateside. But Ford Europe is soldiering on valiantly with some interesting product launches. Having injected a little pizzazz into the mainstream MPV market with the S-Max, Ford is following up with the Kuga crossover. A preview version of the final production Kuga will be shown at the Frankfurt show in September…
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Newswheel staff :: 20 July 2007 :: Filed under Estate/Wagon, Skoda, Skoda Fabia
Releasing murky teaser photos of highly anticipated new models is an age old PR tactic. But is Skoda being a little optimistic by taking that approach with the distinctly utilitarian new Fabia estate model? Apparently not, because we’re going to play along and publish the photo…
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19 July 2007 :: Filed under Mid / rear engine sportscar, Ferrari, Ferrari F430
First things first, folks. This is definitely not the F430 Challenge Stradale. A lightweight, battle-ready F430 with a dose of extra power might sound an awful lot like an F430 Challenge Stradale. But it ain’t. It’s the new F430 Scuderia, ummm-kay?
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19 July 2007 :: Filed under Aston Martin
The last Vanquish will roll off the line at Aston’s Newport Pagnell
facility tomorrow, sniffle sniffle. The boutique British brand has been
trickling out handbuilt gentleman’s expresses from the midlands factory
since the misty days of 1954…
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Newswheel staff :: 19 July 2007 :: Filed under Volkswagen
Fancy losing $1 billion a year for three years on the trot? Didn’t think so. But that’s what VW’s US arm has reportedly achieved. It’s unsurprising, therefore, that rumours have emerged indicating that Volkswagen might pull out of America altogether…
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Newswheel staff :: 17 July 2007 :: Filed under Mid / rear engine sportscar, Porsche, Porsche 911
In a rather inevitable move following the recent leak of tech specs and images from an official brochure, Porsche has done the sensible thing and released details and images of the upcoming GT2 flagship variant of the 911 range. In typical GT2 fashion, Porsche has turned up the wick on the boost and ditched drive to the front wheels…
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Newswheel staff :: 17 July 2007 :: Filed under Coupe, Front engine sportscar, Alfa Romeo, Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione, Europe & UK, US
Yours for a piffling 159,300 Euros: we give you the final Euro list price for the Alfa Romeo 8C uber coupe. That’s a whisker over £100,000 at current exchange rates…
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Newswheel staff :: 13 July 2007 :: Filed under Coupe, BMW, BMW 3 Series
Too soft, too civilised, not special enough. That’s the verdict following the initial round of road tests of BMW’s rather licentiously anticipated new M3 performance coupé. Whoopsie…
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Newswheel staff :: 13 July 2007 :: Filed under Gordon Murray Design
Gordon Murray, best known as the designer of the McLaren F1 uber car, has launched his own car design company. And the first project of the imaginatively-monikered Gordon Murray Design company? A radical, fuel-efficient city car, codenamed T25…
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Newswheel staff :: 09 July 2007 :: Filed under Coupe, BMW, BMW 1 Series, Europe & UK
Creeping gargantuanism. It’s the ever present plague of the modern motor car. So, with each new model BMW’s painfully popular 3 Series coupé gets a little portlier. Take the flagship of the current (non M3) range, the 335i. It clocks in at 1,600kg and is a massive 350mm wider than a mid ‘90s E36 3 Series. But what if you’re after something a little smaller, more driver focused and, hell, maybe a bit cheaper, too? Well, BMW has just delivered. The new 1 Series Coupé has been unveiled and it will be available with BMW’s mega 3.0-litre twin-turbo straight-six…
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