Cars

Volkswagen could launch a smaller all electric car in a few years

Volkswagen launched the ID.3 all electric here in Europe and the UK earlier this year and its the same outside space as a Golf, with the same wheelbase as a much larger Passat giving the car more room inside. Volkswagen is looking to expand the line up with a smaller car, probably called the ID.1 and it’ll be more Polo sized. Volkswagen has been dabbling with smaller electric cars for […]

New VW Golf R on sale now, priced at £39,270

Volkswagen announced the all new Golf R last month and this week, the prices have been announced and it is on sale too, starting at £39,270. For the full breakdown on the new Golf R, click here In short, the new Golf R has more power at 316bhp, 310lb ft torque from the 2.0-litre engine and four wheel drive like all Golf R models. 0-60 is handled in 4.7 seconds, quicker […]

New VW Golf GTI Clubsport on sale, with 296bhp

This week, Volkswagen has put the new Golf 8 GTI Clubsport on sale and its priced at £37,215, comes with 296bhp, larger brakes and much more. The new car is based on the brand new Golf 8 GTI, which was only launched a few months ago. The Clubsport version is £4,000 more than the standard GTI and it offers more power, going from 242bhp to 296bhp, as well as ore […]

Volkswagen is going to stop taking part in motorsport

Volkswagen has announced that it is not going to be taking part in any more motorsport going forward, including touring car racing, rally as well as the new ID R all electric race car. The company wants to start “pooling its strengths” to push its electric car business forward. Volkswagen only started the ID R project in the last few years and has had a success with it at Pikes […]

Honda will stop selling combustion only cars in Europe in 2022

A few weeks ago, the UK Government brought forward the cut off date for the sale of brand new combustion only based cars from 2040 to 2030, with 2035 for hybrids and Honda has responded to say that in Europe at least, it’ll stop selling cars that are only powered by an ICE engine in 2022. This means that after 2022 the new cars that the company sells will either […]

Jaguar launches new F-Pace SVR with refreshed look and more power

Jaguar has updated the new F-Pace with a new facelift recently, both inside and out and this week the SVR version has been announced. It has more power than the old model as well as the infotainment improvements from the facelifted model. The new Jaguar F-Pace SVR still has the 5.0-litre supercharged V8, which is made in the UK with 542bhp, but this time with more torque at 516 lb […]

Ford announces new Mustang Mach-E GT Performance Edition with 480bhp

This is the new Performance Edition of the current Ford Mustang Mach-E GT, the all electric SUV from Ford and today the company has announced that the GT version will actually have more power than originally estimated, at 480bhp which is 21bhp than the company had estimated. The new Performance Edition actually has the same power, but 34 lb-ft more torque bringing it up to 634 lb-ft. The standard Mach-E […]

Volkswagen ID.3 was the best selling electric car in Europe last month

Here in Europe, electric car sales have been increasing by a lot, based on the numbers of October 2020 which saw an increase of 153% compared to October 2019. Last month, 1,127,624 cars were registered and 26.8% of those cars were electric with the best selling car being the brand new Volkswagen ID.3, which sold 10,475. Earlier this year in April, Tesla saw success as the best selling overall car […]

Tesla has had to recall some Model Y cars due to loose bolts

Tesla this week has had to recall a number of Model Y SUVs due to a potentially loose bolt in the steering system. 437 cars have been recalled so far. The bolts connecting the front upper control arm and steering knuckle may not have been torqued to specification. If not properly secured, the upper control arm can unseat from the steering knuckle, resulting in excessive negative or positive camber and […]

Tesla hints it might make a hatchback EV

Elon Musk, Tesla CEO has recently hinted that for the market here in Europe a smaller Tesla EV, in the form of a hatchback might be coming at some stage. All he said was, when speaking to Bloomberg: “In Europe, it would make sense to do a compact car. I’m sure there will be others as well.” Elon Musk More compact cars are important part of the market here in […]