What is it like? First up, it looks just as well proportioned and perhaps a shade more imposing than the standard model, which has been much praised for its own shape. This is a major achievement: it is far more common for stretch models to lose their sense of “rightness”…
Pictures and details of the Mercedes-Benz S-class S600 have leaked online ahead of the car’s official reveal at the Detroit motor show next week. The S600 will top the standard S-class line-up, sitting below the AMG versions in the range. A specification sheet leaked alongside these pictures indicates the S600…
This is convoluted, but bear with me. You may have noticed that Nissan has grafted a London taxi-esque grille and headlight ensemble to the front-end of its NV200 van-based London cab. It’s a sensible attempt to make the beast’s mission more obvious as it plies the city streets, and was…
Elio Motors showed off its three-wheeler at the International CES technology show in Las Vegas this week and announced the next step in its plan to put the vehicle into production. The US company’s model plan is to produce an ultra-frugal, low-cost vehicle using 90 per cent of domestically sourced components. The…
The launch of the Caterham Aeroseven has been pushed back to 2015 owing to a complete redesign. The 600kg, 237bhp AeroSeven was originally scheduled to go on sale in Autumn of this year. Caterham Group CEO Graham Macdonald told Autocar that the delay was needed to make changes to the…
You might not have seen MG Motor’s previous effort, the 6, around your way much, but rest assured, the Chinese/British hybrid badge is not going away. Sizeable investment in Longbridge has put some genuine meat back on the manufacturer’s borrowed bones and the second model to be (re)built on the…
Anyone involved in the British motorsport industry knows that it is one of this country’s major success stories, but a new survey has shown just how impressive it really is. The Motorsport Industry Association has just completed a review of the UK’s Motorsport Valley Business Cluster. If that sounds like…
These spy pictures are reported to show a new Ferrari race car, with speculation suggesting it could be a prototype for anything from a new LaFerrari hypercar-based racer to a full blown LMP1 Le Mans racer. The car, which was testing at Fiorano for the second time in the past…
Rolls-Royce is seriously considering reconfiguring its environmentally friendly Goodwood factory to build the proposed SUV model, according to CEO Torsten Müller-Ötvös. The factory, built on the Goodwood estate at Westhampnett, near Chichester, was opened in 2003 to build the Rolls-Royce Phantom, and stands in an officially designated Area of Outstanding…
They may make the best mile-eaters in the world, but Britain’s luxo-limo manufacturers, Rolls-Royce and Bentley, combined yesterday to save me a journey of at least four hours and 225 miles. By coincidence, both companies chose yesterday — and locations in Central London — to reveal their results for 2013.…