You may remember the pics and details from Peugeot’s Audi TT clone that were about released a month ago. Now, Peugeot has announced that they want a piece of the green market too, with this RCZ HYbrid4 concept. Headline figures are around 3.7l/100km, CO2 emissions of 95g/km and all while still having a smidge under [...]

The fifth round of the Australian MINI Challenge was held at Phillip Island last weekend. The first race on the program was held on Saturday and was televised live on Channel 7. If you missed it, fear not as here are two YouTube clips showing the broadcast in full. Nathan Caratti, from Glory Team Racing, [...]

Bernd Schneider, five time DTM touring car champion, takes Mr Giggle for a spin around a track in the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Gullwing. You do get a some feel for the car’s aural delights, even over the cheesy German to English voiceover. Also, after the jump, you can see another SLS clip (in German), sourced [...]

Things have been a bit quiet in car land for the last day or two. The calm before the Frankfurt storm, clearly. One little tidbit that has popped up, though, is this nifty little gadget from Volkswagen. It is a new, more realistic, 1 litre two seater concept city car. The “1 litre” name is [...]

Lotus have turned their “luxury” tourer, the Evora, into an out and out racer. The Type 124 (one twenty four) meets full FIA racing specifications and has been designed for endurance racing. There is a reasonably extensive factory backed calendar of races in line for the 124, starting with next year’s Nürburgring 24 hour race [...]

If you follow F1 you’ve been following the race fixing charges against the Renault F1 team, which focus on Nelson Piquet Jr’s crash at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix. It is alleged the incident was premeditated and created to force a safety car. With the knowledge the safety car was going to be introduced Renault [...]

Following the official, and not so official, leaks of information Lexus has finally revealed a set of images showing its LF-Ch Concept Hybrid in full. This is the car Lexus hopes will eat into the Audi A3/BMW 1 Series market. The presser below doesn’t go into too much detail, but it does explain the LF-Ch [...]

In one of the first non-official leaks in the lead up to the Frankfurt Motor Show we can get a sneak peak at the Audi R8 Spider. It’s a bit brown isn’t it! We don’t really know much about the Spider just yet, other than these pics tend to indicate the range will be headlined [...]

The Gullwing has landed! Just a few days out from the car’s official debut Mercedes-Benz have released a suite of images showcasing the SLS AMG ‘Gullwing’. There is an extensive press release below that outlines all the goodies you would expect such a car to have, from creature comforts to technological details. Of course, the [...]

Here are two official videos from McLaren Automotive which showcase the new MP4-12C. In the clip above, Ron Dennis talks about his new baby, while in the second clip we see Antony Sheriff, Managing Director McLaren Automotive, waxing lyrical about the 12C.

Celebrity car guy Jay Leno gets an inside look at the McLaren MP4-12C and is kind enough to share that look with the world. Someone really should give him a new shirt for Christmas, that denim number is getting a bit of a workout. Anyway, the clip is quite good and there’s a nice snippet [...]

McLaren Automotive is back, and back in a very big way. Seventeen years after the creation of the almighty McLaren F1 road car the company from Woking in Surrey is preparing its sequel. McLaren wants to bring hypercar performance in to the supercar market. That means they reckon the MP-12C will be up there with [...]

The organisers of the Australian MINI Challenge have come up with one pretty cool idea. It’s a try before you buy scheme that enables prospective racers an opportunity to drive one of the JCW racecars with current team owners present to offer advice and answer questions. There will be three dates on offer, taking place [...]

Has Audi Cape Town let the RS3 cat out of the bag? The above entry on twitter would seem to indicate, yes, it has! While speculation has been around for some time that Audi would be fitting the 2.5 litre inline 5 cylinder into the A3 platform to make an RS3 model, nothing has been [...]

Volkswagen New Zealand has recently launched a Golf GTI section on their website. Surely, Australia can’t be that far away now! After all, new model GTIs have been in the country for at least a month. Although, to be fair, it’s probably not worth expecting the New Zealand and Australian model roll outs for Volkswagen [...]