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Newswheel staff :: 29 April 2008 :: Filed under Cabriolet, Front engine sportscar, BMW, BMW M3
Drop-top versions of BMW’s M cars are traditionally a little off message when it comes to driving dynamics. That’s the price you pay for hacking the roof off, compromising structural integrity and cranking up the kerb weight. But the new M3 Convertible is the first BMW to feature the firm’s new seven-speed M Double Clutch Transmission (M DCT). So, it’s a little more interesting than your average 155mph sun trap…
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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 :: 15 May 2007 :: Filed under Cabriolet, Coupe, Hatchback, Audi, Audi A5, Europe & UK, US
The A5 and S5 coupes were just the beginning, folks. According to reports, Audi is tooling up to release a wide range of variants based on its new coupe, including an inevitable uber-hot RS5, a cabriolet and an intriguing shooting brake concoction…
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Newswheel staff :: 11 May 2007 :: Filed under Cabriolet, Front engine sportscar, Mercedes Benz, Mercedes Benz SLR, Europe & UK
Let’s be honest. MB’s SLR supercoupe doesn’t really add up. Perhaps it’s the gloopy, unsubtle ‘90s concept car styling. Or maybe the torque-converter gearbox which belies its supercar pretensions. And what about the hair-trigger brakes? Whatever, the SLR is neither fish nor foul, sportscar nor luxury coupe. But that hasn’t stopped Mercedes from attempting to reignite interest in the long-nosed road missile with this new drop-top revision…
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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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Newswheel staff :: 15 November 2006 :: Filed under Cabriolet, Roadster, Aston Martin, Aston Martin V8 Vantage, Europe & UK, US
Enjoy the ineffable beauty of the new V8 Vantage Roadster, revealed yesterday, while the honeymoon lasts, folks. For it will soon be a pestilence upon the humble roads of west London – when the Roadster arrives, Aston Martin will surely be beating well-heeled customers out of showrooms with a shitty stick. Well, so long as the boutique British sports car brand survives the process of being defenestrated from the Ford empire…
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Newswheel staff :: 24 October 2006 :: Filed under Cabriolet, Coupe, BMW, BMW 3 Series, Europe & UK, US,
Previous contender for 2006’s worst kept secret award and a first for BMW, give it up for the 3 Series Convertible, the German outfit’s debut folding hard-top cabriolet. The three-piece folding contraption hurtles up or down in just 22 seconds but comes at a price in terms of cost and kerb weight…
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Newswheel staff :: 08 September 2006 :: Filed under Cabriolet, Renault, Europe & UK
No doubt purely in the interests of symmetry, Renault has released details and images of the Nepta concept car, due to be unsheathed in public at the end of the month. Consequently, all three of the big French brands have now shown their hands in the lead up to the Paris motor show which kicks off on the 28th (Edit: Newswheel’s bad – it was actually Peugeot who released details of the 207 EPURE last)…
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Newswheel staff :: 08 September 2006 :: Filed under Cabriolet, Coupe, Peugeot, Peugeot 207, Europe & UK
With the Paris motor show approaching, the concept cars are coming
thick and fast. Today’s effort is this coupe-cabriolet from Peugeot
based on the new 207 hatchback. Although the car’s sci-fi fuel cell
powertrain is an unlikely candidate for production, there’s little
doubting that, styling-wise, you’re looking at the new folding-hardtop
equipped 207 CC…
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Newswheel staff :: 02 August 2006 :: Filed under Cabriolet, Coupe, Brabus, Mercedes Benz, Europe & UK, US
With 517bhp and 612lb/ft on tap from a twin-turbo, 5.5-litre V12, Merc’s range-topping SL600 coupe-cabriolet isn’t exactly short on shove. Which makes you wonder what exactly is the point of Merc’s in-house 612bhp, 737lb/ft hot rod version, the painfully pricey SL65 AMG? Perhaps a stab at the title of the most pointlessly powerful roadster on the planet? If so, then bad luck to Mercedes and AMG, because German tuning house Brabus has peeled back the wraps on its own contender, the 730bhp SV12 S…
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Newswheel staff :: 30 June 2006 :: Filed under Cabriolet, Coupe, Jaguar, Jaguar XKR, Europe & UK, US
With three weeks to go until its first public outing at the British
Motor Show, Jaguar has pulled the trigger on the all-new XKR. On paper,
Jag’s new flagship GT (available from launch as both a coupe and
cabriolet) doesn’t deliver many surprises. But there’s plenty of power
courtesy of a mildly fettled version of the trusty AJ-V8. And with
significantly less poundage to drag around thanks to that all-aluminium
construction, the latest XKR should be fairly nippy…
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Newswheel staff :: 26 June 2006 :: Filed under Cabriolet, Alfa Romeo, Alfa Romeo Spider, Europe & UK,
When Alfa Romeo launched its inordinately sassy, Pininfarina-designed Duetto Spider at the Geneva Show back in 1966 it made something of a rod for it’s own back. Such was that car’s timeless beauty that an all-new Spider didn’t appear until the mid-1990s, some three decades later. Although the most recent model’s wedge-shaped styling certainly held its head above water, it lacked the almost incomparable visual appeal of the original. Ten years on and we find ourselves at the Sicily-based press launch of the newest Spider. Now you’ll have to trust us on this, but roof either up or down, this Brera-based Spider looks even better in the metal than it does in photos…
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Newswheel staff :: 21 June 2006 :: Filed under Cabriolet, Front engine sportscar, BMW, BMW M6, Europe & UK, US,
To a list of world debuts that already includes the Jag XKR, Civic three-door and Freelander 2, may we add BMW’s M6 Convertible. Granted, the British International Motor Show won’t exactly be worrying the organisers of the Geneva and Frankfurt shindigs. But for an event that was near-as-dammit dead just a few years ago, the London show is looking distinctly healthy. Indeed, the M6’s British blow off is a first for any BMW…
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Newswheel staff :: 21 June 2006 :: Filed under Cabriolet, Front engine sportscar, Mazda MX-5, Europe & UK, US
In an unusual move for an established drop-top, Mazda has retro-fitted a folding hardtop to the MX-5 roadster. To be known in the UK as the Mazda MX-5 Roadster Coupe, the new variant will be publicly unveiled at the British International Motor Show in London next month. Whether this qualifies as good news for a compact, lightweight sports car that majors on responsive driving dynamics ain’t exactly obvious…
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Newswheel staff :: 20 June 2006 :: Filed under Cabriolet, Mid / rear engine sportscar, Porsche, Porsche Boxster, Europe & UK, US
Porsche’s pricing structure has just gone from perplexing to downright preposterous. The Stuttgart-based sports car manufacturer has announced plans to upgrade the Boxster rag-top with engines from its tin-top sibling, the Cayman coupe. The result? Porsche is now asking customers to fork out a £6,000 premium for an open-top 911 at the same time as flogging Boxsters for thousands less than fixed-roof Caymans…
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Newswheel staff :: 04 June 2006 :: Filed under Cabriolet, Coupe, Porsche, Porsche 911, Europe & UK, US
The Porsche 911 Targa. A philosophical, nay epistemological, challenge to Porsche lovers everywhere. But whether you reckon a bonce-buffing chestwig chariot like the Targa deserves a place in the 911 range matters not. The 997-vintage Targa is on the way. Time to learn to love it, kids…
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Newswheel staff :: 28 May 2006 :: Filed under Cabriolet, Coupe, Volkswagen, Volkswagen Eos, Europe & UK,
Folding hardtops. They’re heavier, more complex, more expensive to engineer and manufacture and rob you of more luggage space when stowed than a conventional fabric roof. That’s not terribly clever. But sod the intellectual argument: a folding hard top is sexier than a swarm of silicone-enchanced C-list celebs, right? Possibly. And there are at least security and safety advantages. More importantly, however, coupe-cabriolets are simply what Joe Punter wants. And who is VW to deny him? Give it up, therefore, for the Eos, VW’s first folding hardtop model…
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Newswheel staff :: 03 May 2006 :: Filed under Cabriolet, Coupe, Roadster, Mercedes Benz, Mercedes Benz SLK, Europe & UK, US
Love it or loathe it, it seems the end is nigh for the SLK’s
F1-inspired, SLR-derived bonnet and grille treatment. Word comes down today
from Germany’s Auto Strassenverkehr magazine that MB has decided to take the
laser to the roadster’s protruding nasal implement in favour of a new treatment
more in keeping with MB’s recent offerings…
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Alex Ricciuti :: 31 March 2006 :: Filed under Cabriolet, Coupe, Ford, Ford Focus, Europe & UK, US,
Troll your average car-themed site or blog, Stateside, and amongst the usual web-based comment bile the odd clear-headed theme emerges. Try this one for size: why are certain killer European car models is not available in the US? Example required? How about the new Ford Focus Coupe-Cabriolet, intro’ed at the Geneva show earlier in March…
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Newswheel staff :: 02 March 2006 :: Filed under Cabriolet, Coupe, Ford, Ford Focus, Volkswagen, Volkswagen Eos, Europe & UK, Trade shows, US,
On paper, it’s no contest. The Eos not only packs the classier VW badge. It also has a completely unique body that enables it to sneer at the hatchback derived likes of Ford’s new Focus CC. But in the metal, there’s a lot less separating Ford’s new folding hard-top equipped Focus from VW’s much delayed Golf-based Eos. Both are elegant, desirable and a clear cut above Peugeot’s 307 CC, the Opel/Vauxhall TwinTop and the Renault Megane Coupe-Cabriolet.
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