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Abarth one make Trofeo racing series begins this year, with the official start being Easter Monday. The Trofeo series proved to be a remarkable success in its debut GB race season last year – featuring at top race tracks around the UK and in Italy – and a second season has long been anticipated. “We […]
Toyota Motor Corporation announced a global recall campaigns for certain Toyota and Lexus models on 24th February. These recalls do not affect right hand drive Toyota or Lexus models sold in the UK. As part of these global campaigns, Toyota is preparing to voluntarily recall some left hand drive European Lexus RX models to address […]
The previous generation BMW X3 wasn’t all that well received – not in the least a certain Mr Clarkson who tore it to bits as being not very good off road and not particularly great on road either. Will this new generation model fair any better? Find out in the Fifth Gear review.
Last night, I had the misfortune of having to travel into the city centre in a car when it was slap bang in the middle of rush hour. This shouldn’t have been a problem as I was travelling IN to town and not OUT. However, as per usual, you cannot predict the state of British […]
There’s a new fast Ford coming and this one is an evolution of the Ford Fiesta S1600. This pint sized pocket rocket will provide the same quality as the current version with the biggest improvement being to speed. Here’s the official information from Ford: Priced from £15,895 on the road, and limited to just 500 […]
James May provides yet another insightful article at The Times Online, discussing why we’re so obsessed with performance figures. To a degree, I’d say he’s right, especially with so many cars with similar levels of performance these days. Perhaps we’re almost reaching a plateau, where the next development in supercars won’t be to hit 0-60 […]
Graham runs through the latest car news in this video from Fifth Gear. It’s certainly worth a watch, not least because of the information on the newest monster car from Gumpert…
Lamborghini keeps producing special editions of the Gallardo and with very good reason. However, the Spyder is probably the best ‘standard’ production version. What would you rather have – this or the Audi R8 Spyder? The Lamborghini Gallardo represents a supercar that has it all – minus a roof that makes it just that more […]
CAR Magazine recently embarked on what can only be described as an extremely long drive – in nothing other than the GOlf BlueMotion. Here’s the release on just how far they went to test the abilities of this economical motor: The Golf BlueMotion is one of the most efficient and low CO2 emitting cars currently […]
Today, as the first MP4-12C production cars enter the McLaren Technology Centre, segment-best performance data and full technical specification for the innovative new high performance sports car is confirmed. 592 BHP @ 7,000 RPM 443lbs foot of torque @ 3,000-7,000 RPM Weight of 1434 kgs 24.2 MPG 455 BHP per tonne Top speed 205 miles […]