Fifteen horsepower in a car is hardly anything to get excited about, even if it only has 550kg to lug around. But these were the keys stats of BMW’s first car, the 3/15. If it looks familiar to our British readers, that’s because, essentially, the car was an Austin 7. After the jump you can [...]
Some car dealers will go to extraordinary lengths to attract publicity, but Porsche Centrum Gelderland in the Netherlands seems to have hit the sweet spot with this stunt. They have covered a 911 Carrera S in chocolate to attract attention to themselves. And, hats off to them, it has worked with this little blog on [...]
Earlier hopes of a hotted up all-wheel drive Audi A1, likely to wear Audi’s hallowed S1 badge, ready to take it up to the MINI John Cooper Works could be dashed. Back in January Auto Express told us of Audi’s plans to build a 200hp S1 fitted with a rear-biased quattro drivetrain. Now, new details [...]
Ouch! Here for your enjoyment, if you can call it that, is 10 minutes of YouTube carnage titled “Crazy Finns Crashing”. Seems noone bothered to the tell the Finnish the old motorsport adage, to finish first, first you have to finish. Given the recent Jenson Button rumours, you have to wonder if we will see [...]
Well, Volkswagen to run Amarok at Dakar, to be precise. Volkswagen’s new pickup will be used as the official support and fleet vehicle of the 2010 Dakar Rally (1-17 January). Continuing to suffer something of an identity crisis the Dakar will again be held in South America (Argentina and Chile), starting and ending in Buenos [...]
The Guardian currently leads its sport page with a story declaring that reigning F1 world champion Jenson Button has agreed to join the McLaren team on a three year deal. While nothing has been made official, just yet, it is expected the £6 £18 million deal will be signed off in the coming days. Button’s [...]
Chris Harris from Evo is fast becoming my new anti-hero. He’s doing many of the things we’d all love to be doing, and yet, I hate him at the same time! After the jump you can watch as he spends a few minutes showing off in a Porsche 911 GT3 RS, before really rubbing our [...]
If we’re to believe the spin McLaren and Mercedes will part ways under mutual agreement. The basics of this agreement were given in Daimler AG’s announcement of the BrawnGP buy-in. Now, McLaren are making happy family noises, as well. A statement on the McLaren website begins, “McLaren and Mercedes-Benz are delighted to announce a realigned [...]
As the day passes the news gets bigger for BrawnGP. While nothing in F1 is ever certain, the Button to McLaren move looks to be gathering momentum. With Rubens Barichello’s step to Williams already confirmed, BrawnGP will need a new pairing to defend their constructor’s title. That title defence looks set for a massive boost, [...]
Now that Episode 1 of Top Gear‘s fourteenth season is locked away in the vault, Andy Wilman has given a preview of what is in store for the rest of the series. Wilman has given brief outlines of the six remaining episodes and it looks like there might be a week off, with the final [...]
The eBay auction for Michael Schumacher’s 1994 B194 Benetton-Ford was due to end in a few hours. You may recall the bidding last week was as high as €2.6 million (AU$4.2m), but the listing on eBay.de has been down for over 24 hours now. Hmm, it seems something is rotten in the state of Denmark. [...]
Jenson Button, 2009 Formula One World Champion, is trying to work who he wants to do his Sunday driving with in 2010. Under usual circumstances you’d reckon you might stick with the guys at BrawnGP, who pretty much served a drivers title to you on a silver platter, in part due to a very, very [...]
If you’re not a captain of industry then the closest you may get to a Porsche is through one of their driving schools. Currently Porsche UK is running a competition for a chance to take part in their Porsche 911 Evolution III drive day. The YouTube clip above shows what’s in store with a good [...]
As you will most likely be aware Series 14 of Top Gear premieres on UK screens tonight. Kicking the season off is an appearance by Australia’s own Eric Bana. According to Top Gear’s Transmission blog Eric was a popular guest, “You can always tell the really sound people amongst TG guests by how much they [...]
You’ll remember yesterday’s sad story of the Bugatti Veyron taking a dip. Amazingly, the incident has been captured on video and can be seen below after the jump. Adding some humour to the tragedy is the expert commentary provided by the guys behind the camera. Let’s call them Lloyd and Harry: Lloyd: [murmurs] That will [...]