This just in: Caterham F1 has revealed the first picture of its 2012 Formula One contender. And it is thus. The racing outfit that used to be called Team Lotus but isn’t Lotus anymore because Lotus wanted to use the name Lotus, is the first team out of the blocks to reveal its 2012 Formula [...]
Rewind to 2008, and the last lap of the last race of the season in Brazil. You know the one, when Massa beats Lewis and thinks he’s clinched the title, only for Lewis to squirm around Timo Glock at the final corner, earning a crucial extra point and – more importantly – sneaking the F1 [...]
Toyota Estima Lucida G Luxury Joyful Canopy. Isuzu Mysterious Utility Wizard. Ford Probe. And now the grand pantheon of Cars With Very Silly Names has a new member. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the Dacia Lodgy Glace. Dacia Lodgy Glace. That’s ‘Lodgy’ to rhyme with ‘stodgy’. Or ‘dodgy’. That’s ‘Glace’ to rhyme [...]
‘Tis the week for tiny Japanese sports cars. Yesterday we saw the Honda Small Sports Car EV– a dinky all-electric concept – and today Daihatsu has released a few sketchy details and pictures of its D-X concept, a two-seater roadster set to be unveiled at the Tokyo show later this month. Unlike the Honda, [...]
GOOD NEWS! Morgan’s building a 94bhp Supersports-based electric superishcar. BETTER NEWS! It’s got a proper manual gearbox. The +E concept’s using a similar five-speed manual transmission to the six-speeder in the current V8-powered car. And providing it reaches production, it’ll be the only manual EV… in the world. Neil Cheeseman from the car’s electric drivechain [...]
While Top Gear mag was drawing up its cars of the year in a glitzy Portakabin on an industrial estate near Guildford, 58 Very Serious Men from 22 countries were compiling their own list for European Car of the Year. Interestingly, the Very Serious Men have drawn some similar conclusions to our own musings. Just [...]
