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Newswheel staff :: 21 April 2008 :: Filed under Saloon, Opel / Vauxhall, Vauxhall, Vauxhall Insignia
Gone are the days when the upper medium segment – the repmobile, y’all
- ruled our roads with polyester-suited impunity. Actually, buyers have
generally buggered off in favour of premium brands or niche models -
soft roaders, crossovers and all that jazz. Sales are therefore on the
slouchy side of slumpy. And yet there’s still something slightly
momentous about the launch of a new sales rep special from one of the big
players. At least the new Vauxhall (Opel to our friends across the
Channel) Insignia is handsome and promises to be moderately high tech - LED
lighting and active dampers are options, an EcoFLEX model is on the
cards. And it will of course lend its underpinnings to a wide range of
models in GM’s brand portfolio…
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Newswheel staff :: 10 April 2008 :: Filed under Coupe, Saloon, Volkswagen, Volkswagen Passat
For a car that will live and die on style alone, we’ve an inkling the Passat CC four-door coupe’s clothes are a touch too retiring. Nevertheless, VW has big plans for the new model including a six-year sales target of 300,000. That’s big money for a niche model. Anywho, the Passat CC goes on sale this autumn. Therefore, to oil our sumps in preparation for this new halo model, VW has released full tech specs including details of the DSG-touting, all-wheel drive 3.6 V6 model…
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Newswheel staff :: 30 August 2007 :: Filed under Saloon, Audi, Audi A4, Europe & UK
OK, the A4 is the meat and potatoes of the Audi’s saloon-car range. And
the existing A4 has been doing roaring business. So, you can forgive
Audi up to a point for hedging its stylistic bets with the all-new A4, revealed for
the first time today. But it really is spectacularly unadventurous…
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28 August 2007 :: Filed under Saloon, Jaguar
Creating a ripper of a concept like the Jaguar C-XF is all very well. But you’ll wish you hadn’t bothered when you wheel out a significantly toned-down production version and the insults start flying. And so it is with the new Jag XF saloon, officially revealed for the first time today. Whatever you think of it, the XF simply isn’t as dramatic and cohesive as the C-XF concept…
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Newswheel staff :: 03 August 2007 :: Filed under Saloon, Mercedes Benz, Mercedes Benz E-Class
Well, possibly. Motorauthority has shopped up some renderings showing how the next E-Class, due out in 2009, might just look. Plenty of styling cues have been taken from the recently refreshed entry-level C-Class saloon, while the overall vibe is crisper and more dynamic than the rather bland jelly-mould aesthetic of the current E-Class…
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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 :: 17 May 2007 :: Filed under Saloon, Vauxhall, Vauxhall Vectra, Europe & UK
Mass-market, mid-sized saloons ain’t exactly money spinners anymore. In Europe, compact execs like BMW’s 3 and the Audi A4 have become today’s high-volume repmobiles. But Opel / Vauxhall’s upcoming Vectra is still an important design and technology bellwether for the company. It will also lend its underpinnings to a wide range of GM vehicles around the world from Saturn to Saab…
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Newswheel staff :: 11 May 2007 :: Filed under Saloon, Saab, Saab 9-3, Europe & UK
Due out later this year, these are the first official images of the facelifted Saab 9-3. At least, that’s what they purport to be. And frankly, a mildly tweaked 9-3 isn’t something you’d expect anyone would bother to fake. So, we’ll give these leaked snaps the benefit of the doubt…
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Newswheel staff :: 02 May 2007 :: Filed under Saloon, Nanjing, Rover
Crusty old Steve Cropley, Autocar’s Antipodean anglophile, has the scoop on the first production variants of Nanjing’s resurrected Rover 75. “Reassuringly British,” quothe Cropley, though we dare not speculate what Britishness means in the context of modern motor manufacturing…
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Newswheel staff :: 26 March 2007 :: Filed under Saloon, Hyundai Genesis, Europe & UK, US
First it was the Japanese that came, saw and didn’t quite conquer those crusty old European luxury brands. So, is it South Korea’s turn to take a swing at the Olde Worlde? Hyundai is certainly looking a like a serious contender courtesy of the Geniesis, a new V8 saloon ‘concept’ due to be unsheathed at the New York motorshow next month…
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Newswheel staff :: 09 February 2007 :: Filed under Saloon, BMW, BMW M5, Europe & UK, US
As we reported back in November, Stateside public demand has forced BMW to backtrack on its original decision
not to offer the M5 supersaloon with a triple pedal, stick twiddling transmission
(though European and British buyers remain stuck with the robot box as the only
option). However, justification for BMW’s reluctance has now emerged courtesy
of a report suggesting that the US-only manual M5 suffers from excessive axle
tramp…
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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…
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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…
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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?
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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…
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Newswheel staff :: 13 December 2006 :: Filed under Estate/Wagon, Saloon, Ford, Ford Mustang, Europe & UK, US
The Mustang muscle car is one of the very few upbeat plot threads to come out of the woeful overall story arc of Ford Motor Company’s recent performance. What therefore to make of a new report detailing Ford’s plans to launch a whole family of Mustang models in an attempt to cash in on the model’s iconic image?
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Newswheel staff :: 12 December 2006 :: Filed under Four wheel drive, Saloon, Mitsubishi, Mitsubishi Lancer Evo, Europe & UK, US
The first official images and details of Mitsubishi’s latest Lancer saloon have been released. The new model, which is based on a revamped platform that also underpins the Outlander ute and will lend its core architecture and bodyshell to the upcoming Evo X, will be wheeled out at the Detroit motor show early next year…
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Newswheel staff :: 08 December 2006 :: Filed under Saloon, Maserati, Maserati Quattroporte, Europe & UK, US
How close is the Quattroporte to greatness? It’s a question that might be answered thanks to the latest development of Maserati’s uber-saloon: a plain old torque-converter gearbox in six-speed trim courtesy of specialists ZF…
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Newswheel staff :: 06 December 2006 :: Filed under Saloon, Jaguar, Jaguar S-Type, Europe & UK
Jaguar’s aging, Lincoln LS-derived S-Type saloon has received a buff job for its final year on sale. Apart from the usual cosmetic tweaks, the big news is a major overhaul / simplification of the engine range and some serious price cuts. The most significant changes are the deletion of all naturally-aspirated V8 models and an enormous Ł5k price drop on the supercharged S-Type R…
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Newswheel staff :: 06 December 2006 :: Filed under Saloon, Lexus, Europe & UK, US
That’s right, folks. The creative geniuses at Lexus Towers have come up with a brilliant single-letter designation for the brand’s new performance division. It’s the letter ‘F’, and it simply stands for ‘fast’…
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