Peugeot 3008 Hybrid4: First drive

Peugeot 3008 Hybrid4: F...

Filed under: First Drive First came the electric car, then came the petrol hybrid. After this came the range-extender electric hybrid and now Peugeot has given us the latest hybrid car flavour – the world’s first diesel hybrid. Anyway, Peugeot’s rival to the Vauxhall...
24 Hours of LeMons Live Race Updates, Features, and More: Get ‘Em Right Here!

24 Hours of LeMons Live...

Car and Driver writers have been rubbing Bar’s-Leaks-smeared elbows with the miscreants who put on the 24 Hours of LeMons since the very first race , and so it follows— the way the Daewoo Maepsy followed the Holden Gemini—that we’d make an inexplicable sponsorship...
December 2011 Vehicle Sales: What the Headlines Don’t Tell You

December 2011 Vehicle S...

It Really Was a Toyotathon Sales of the Toyota Camry in 2011: 308,510 Sales of all Mazdas in 2011: 250,426 Sales of all BMWs in 2011: 247,907 Date of T?hoku earthquake: March 11, 2011 Date flooding started in Thailand: July 31, 2011 Minimum number of months Toyota operated below 100%...
Refreshed Renault Twingo finally has a figure

Refreshed Renault Twing...

Filed under: Latest News The facelifted Renault Twingo has been given a price nearly four months after its debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 2011. Entry to the new Twingo club now costs £10,350 for the Dynamique 1.2 16V 75, up from £9,995 for the pre-facelift...
MINI to produce another Cooper S GP?

MINI to produce another...

Filed under: Comment A rumour for a while, but a report by American car magazine, Car and Driver , seems to confirm that MINI are working on a hard-core John Cooper Works GP replacement. If you’ve not heard of the GP, it was a more powerful and lightweight two-seater version of the...
No New Mainstream VWs in the U.S. for Two Years as Internal Battle Over Three-Row SUV Continues

No New Mainstream VWs i...

Artist's rendering Volkswagen has made a huge push in the U.S. in the past two years. Over that span, the German company has launched three cars developed specifically for our market in the Jetta , Beetle , and Passat , the last of which is being built at a brand-new factory in...
Video: Lincoln MKZ Concept arrives smokin’ hot in Detroit

Video: Lincoln MKZ Conc...

Filed under: Concept Cars , Detroit Auto Show , Sedan , Etc. , Videos , Lincoln , Design/Style , Luxury Lincoln dropped plenty of jaws with the company’s MKZ Concept at the 2012 Detroit Auto Show , but the vehicle may have been a bit hotter than the company intended. Something...
Detroit: Editors’ Choice: Top Five 2012 Detroit Auto Show Debuts

Detroit: Editors’...

Filed under: Concept Cars , Detroit Auto Show , Hybrid , Sedan , Acura , Cadillac , Chrysler , Dodge , Ford , Hyundai , Electric That’s a wrap, folks. Press days for the 2012 Detroit Auto Show have come and gone, meaning there’s just one thing left to do: pick our favorites....
Video: Lamborghini smash severely dents owner’s pride

Video: Lamborghini smas...

Filed under: Humour It’s not too often that you see a fleet of Lamborghinis charging past you on the motorway. That said, it’s not too often that you see one smash into the central reservation either. This is why video clips like this make for cringe worthy and addictive...
Volkswagen Considering VR6 Replacements; Audi’s Turbo Five a Possibility

Volkswagen Considering ...

Volkswagen’s powerful, refined VR6 won us over in the new Passat—helping it  beat the Honda Accord in a recent Car and Driver comparison test—but it won’t stay in production, as-is, forever. Speaking with Dr. Ulrich Hackenberg, a member of the Volkswagen board of...

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