Today is a good day for your ears. At the LA Auto Show, Jaguar has unveiled the most powerful and fastest cabrio in its history: the XKR-S convertible. Happy birthday, aural canals! Like the fixed-roof XKR-S, the convertible Jag uses a 5.0-litre V8 with a twin-vortex supercharger to develop an eardrum-rupturing 542bhp. Though it weighs [...]
For those that fork out £136,000 for a Bentley Continental GT W12, the price of fuelling it probably isn’t much of an issue. So why has Bentley gone to the immense trouble of developing a brand-new V8 version that’s more economical, but will cost very, very nearly the same? OK, so having a version with [...]
The only reason that you would buy a Rolls-Royce Ghost is because you can’t afford a Phantom. It’s the same story with the Porsche Coxster. Some say that this car tells the world your wife has left you. It doesn’t. What it says is: “I haven’t got enough disposable income to stretch to a 911.” [...]
Audi wins the 2011 Spa 24hr race 62 cars representing 13 different manufacturers convened at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps over the weekend to contest the annual endurance feat that is the 24 hrs of Spa. And Audi won. Again. Fresh from the marque’s 2011 Le Mans win, the Audi Sport Team WRT R8 LMS driven [...]
This’ll make your buttocks clench so tightly your backside will start gumming at the seat. It is, as far as we can tell, an Isuzu Trooper merrily overtaking some cars in what looks like an orderly and responsible fashion. Then, without warning, its right-hand rear wheel comes off. As in completely off. Like, totally detches [...]
The supervisory board of the Tognum, the engine manufacturer is now in the hands of Rolls Royce and Daimler. The two company hold the 98.8% of shares of the company, therefore they now have the power to control the motor manufacturer, with the main person in charge, Andreas Renschler, the head of commercial vehicle division [...]
