‘Jay, you look at the dials,’ I said to my passenger, ‘I’ve got other things to concentrate on.’ We were doing about 270km/h and rising fast.
Driven: Porsche Panamera
at 9:46 am on Monday June 29, 2009
Euro Mugen on its way?
at 3:31 pm on Tuesday June 16, 2009
Not so long ago I blogged about how Honda needed a halo model to re-boot the brand after mothballing Swindon for so many months. It’s reassuring to know that the powers that be in Japan are devotees of Top Gear.
Koenigsaab is born
at 3:08 pm on Tuesday June 16, 2009
Until this morning I couldn’t reliably spell Koenigsegg. It was a little company of fewer than 50 employees making fewer than 20 cars a year. Now it has effectively taken over Saab.
Vauxhall: culling the weak
at 3:08 pm on Friday June 5, 2009
This economic chokehold on the motoring industry is squeezing air out of everyone, but it’s doing us a great service at the same time. It’s culling the weak. Separating the wheat from the chaff.
Callum on new XJ
at 12:22 pm on Wednesday June 3, 2009
OK, it’s a bit less adrenaline-filled than that fiery Ken Block video, but here’s Jaguar design guru Ian Callum giving a quick preview of the new XJ, due to arrive in July:
Vauxhall-Opel gets its new owner
at 1:59 pm on Monday June 1, 2009
Well, Foreman called it wrong. I thought Fiat would get control of Vauxhall and Opel, but the giant Canadian car-components-maker Magna won. I was looking at it from an automotive point of view, and the result was skewed by politics.
Good odd or bad odd?
at 12:40 pm on Friday May 29, 2009
I’ve just returned from having a privileged early poke at BMW’s 5 Series Gran Turismo, a bizarre cross-breed of 5, X5 and 7 Series, with a bit of X6 thrown in for the cod coupe styling.
LF-A is go for Tokyo
at 9:23 am on Thursday May 28, 2009
Good grief. The endless wait for the world’s teasingest supercar is finally… nearly… over. The 500bhp Lexus LF-A will arrive at this October’s Tokyo show. That’s almost four years since they showed the concept.
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