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Mini to go rallying
Dan Trent writes:Mini has confirmed entry to next year’s World Rally Championship, following rumours a rally version of the new Countryman 4×4 was under development for the WRC by Prodrive. All true it would seem, the Mini Countryman’s entry into next year’s WRC confirmed by BMW and signalling what could be a thrilling new […]
Posted: July 27th, 2010 under News.
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MSN Cars Golf Bluemotion already a winner
Richard Aucock writes:
MSN Cars enjoyed some awards success last night, courtesy of our new VW Golf Bluemotion long-termer. Well, we say awards success, in a remote sense: see, the Golf was made Green Car of the Year at the What Car? Green Awards 2010.
Thoroughly deserved, was the general view. VW’s achieved 99g/km and […]
Posted: July 14th, 2010 under News.
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BMW 1 Series M Coupe vid
Dan Trent writes:BMW is teasing us with info about its new 1 Series M Coupe, a video of a camouflaged prototype hooning about at the Ascari Race Resort currently posted on the M Power website with contributions from M boss Dr Kay Segler. The good Herr Doktor’s interview is pretty heavy on the käse for sure […]
Posted: July 9th, 2010 under News.
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Behind the scenes at McLaren
Dan Trent writes:
After a triumphant first public outing at the Goodwood Festival Of Speed at the weekend I was down at McLaren this morning to see more about the MP4-12C supercar.
I first visited McLaren’s Woking-based ‘Technology Centre’ back in the Mercedes SLR days – the SLR was built here but now the relationship […]
Posted: July 6th, 2010 under News.
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Renault DeZir: French for “Yeah, baby! Yeah!”
cj hubbard writes:
‘Ello , ello – it appears Renault has built itself an electric Audi R8. This is the DeZir, a brand new Renault concept coming to the Paris Motor Show in September. And amongst other things, it also appears as if someone has been murdered all over the interior.
If Renault is upset about the […]
Posted: July 6th, 2010 under News.
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Gordon Murray’s T.25 - genius or folly?
Dan Trent writes:As the ‘man what built the McLaren F1′ Gordon Murray’s status as a god-like genius is forever assured. A real feel for what drivers want, an uncompromising eye for detail, insistence on utter perfection and unstinting dedication to the cause of performance through light weight (with a little help from a 627hp […]
Posted: June 29th, 2010 under News.
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Why Alfa Romeo is so cool
Dan Trent writes:
The football team may have crashed and burned yesterday but Italy could at least celebrate 100 years of one of its most famous and evocative car brands. Yes, Alfa Romeo has turned 100, yesterday’s ‘official’ birthday just part of the celebrations with the Italian brand taking centre stage at next week’s Goodwood […]
Posted: June 25th, 2010 under News.
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Lexus LFA test driver killed in Germany
Dan Trent writes:Sad news from Germany this morning that Toyota’s chief test driver Hiromu Naruse has been killed in a crash while driving the forthcoming limited edition Nurburgring version of the LFA supercar. Though the track of course has a notorious reputation the accident actually occured on a road outside the circuit, Haruse’s LFA […]
Posted: June 24th, 2010 under News.
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Trucking hell – now that’s just showing off
cj hubbard writes:
You might have heard of Ian Cook. He’s that geezer who paints pictures using radio controlled cars – regardless of what you think of the upshot, there’s no arguing it wasn’t a bloody good marketing idea.
Anyways, he’s now gone one better. In order to promote Comma’s new £2million motorsport ticket […]
Posted: June 9th, 2010 under News.
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Mercedes SLS test drives on offer!
Richard Aucock writes:
British supercar fans are being given a special opportunity to drive the SLS AMG gullwing by Mercedes-Benz UK.
The firm says normal test drives are simply not possible, so rare and special is the 571hp motor. However, special ‘hidden’ links on a new website are offering a lucky few the opportunity […]
Posted: June 8th, 2010 under News.
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