Back at the end of November, Ford UK announced that the new high performance version of its Ranger pickup truck – the Ranger Raptor is starting to be trailed by select police forces across the UK. Initially, South Wales Police had access to the pickup and in November, Autocar spoke to Ford who said several “covert teams” had asked about the Raptor and that they were “hopeful” more forces could start […]
At the North American International Auto Show in Detroit today, Lexus unveiled its latest car – The 2019 Avalon saloon car and according to a post from Apple blog MacRumors, it is the first new car from Lexus that will support CarPlay from Apple. This is something which a handful of car journalists have criticised Lexus for, as all the big main manufactures now support CarPlay and or Android Auto, including Volkswagen, […]
This weekend, more specifically this Sunday – Tesla is planning to reduce the current lineup of the Model S by removing the most affordable version they sell, the S 75. This news comes courtesy of Engadget, who reached out to Tesla today to confirm the news first reported by electric car blog, Electrek. This news isn’t new, this decision to slim down the Model 3 range was decided back in July, shortly […]
Tesla’s latest electric car, the Model 3 is scheduled to be on sale later this year – the company says it’s on time to commence building the final versions starting in July with the capacity to assemble up to 5,000 per week this year and 10,000 a week next year. This news was announced las week in the company’s Q1 earnings report. Branding issue With the Model 3, Tesla is facing some other issues […]
This week Tesla has announced some new top end model additions to the Model S and Model X line ups, both adding more range and better performance. For the Model S saloon range a new P100D model has now been added and has become the third fastest accelerating production car ever, coming only behind to the Ferrari LaFerrari and Porsche 918. To achieve this Tesla have included a huge 100kWh battery which […]
Jaguar has come a long way in the last ten years, back when Ford owned the company in the early 90s they were churning out old and used platforms and renaming under the Jaguar brand, this didn’t really work as the quality wasn’t there enough to justify the price that Jaguars were. Then in 2008 Ford sold the whole brand to Tata, an Indian car company that has helped bring […]
Earlier this week Tesla announced it’s smallest and most affordable model yet, the Model 3 and the whole company and Elon Musk is betting on that this will be in the right price range to be appealing to a lot more people and betting on the amount of pre-orders that it already has, it’s certain that this new model is definitely popular. As of a few days ago, Tesla had […]
The latest generation of Mazda MX-5 may have been initially criticised for the looks but the new forth generation incarnation does look good and it’s actually a good car as the MX-5 has just picked up the World Car of the Year 2016 award at the New York Motor Show. The plucky little sports car beat the likes of the Mercedes GLC SUV as well as the Jaguar XE, a car […]
This April Porsche is releasing a revised edition of the Boxster using the 718 name at the upcoming Geneva motor show this March, with a 2.0 litre engine and 296bhp. Porsche are opting for a four cylinder engine in this edition, interestingly for the first time since the 968 back in 1995. The Boxster 718 will be replacing the outgoing and current Boxster which is on sale now, in addition […]
Another day, more news about the Volkswagen scandal. Earlier today the German car company revealed that around 800,000 cars in Europe are affected by the emissions scandal. Many of the cars are diesel but also as of today we learnt that some petrol cars from VW, Skoda, Audi and Seat are also affected if they have a 1.4, 1.6 or 2.0 litre engine. VW stated: “Under the ongoing review of all […]
