This year marks 200 years since the Peugeot brothers entered the industrial age, converting the family’s cereal mill into a metal foundry. As a special birthday present the current day company is giving itself an updated logo. Along with the new logo comes a new tagline; Peugeot Motion & Emotion. The familiar Lion first emerged [...]

Peugeot say they are embarking on a new design direction. To make the world sit up and take notice they have released these images of their SR1 Concept. The concept car will make its debut at the Geneva Motor Show this March. Further pushing Peugeot’s future direction, the SR1 is powered by hybrid technology producing [...]

Swiss authorities are known for their intolerance of rule breaking, and so this has been proved with reports of a motorist being fined 299,000 Swiss francs (AU$316,000) for driving through the village of St Gallen at 100km/h. Wowsers, that’s a lot of moolah! Behind the wheel of his Ferrari Testarossa at the time the driver [...]

Porsche are not new to creating outstanding advertising for their cars. The Panamera family tree TVC from last year is proof of that. Now, they’ve released another top shelf piece promoting their history in racing. Take the jump and see this awesome ad for yourself.

As most readers will know Top Gear recently embarked on its latest world tour with their Live show. But, if the Mail Online is to be believed Top Gear will soon be setting off another global challenge. This time, though, it won’t be broadcast on your television screens. No, apparently, Top Gear have plans to [...]

BMW hopes to broaden the appeal of its volume selling 3 Series platform by adding a new Gran Turismo iteration. It was rumoured early last year that such a car might have debuted at last year’s Frankfurt Motor Show. But the closest we’ve come is recent reports of the 3 Series GT being spied in [...]

That’s the word on the tweet according to Jonny Smith. You’ll remember Jonny has already given us this potential scoop late year. This news follows reports from October last year confirming the show had been axed. Now, it looks as though Fifth Gear is about to take a leading role in Lazarus: The Auto Show. [...]

It looks like Mercedes-Benz is all set to tackle the Audi A7 and BMW 5 Series GT with a production version of the 2008 ConceptFASCINATION. Understood to be based on the next CLS platform the Estate version is rumoured to debut at the Paris Motor Show in October. Autocar reports the CLS Estate production will [...]

Volkswagen are happy on two counts as far as the 2010 Dakar Rally goes. Firstly, approaching half race distance Carlos Sainz currently leads the rally in his Race Touareg. However, of more importance to Volkswagen’s production vehicles is the debut of the new Amarok which is being used as a support vehicle during the event. [...]

Set me free, why don’t you babe. Get out my life, why don’t you babe. ‘Cause you don’t really love me. You just keep me hangin’ on. You don’t really need me. But you keep me hangin’ on… Yep, you guessed it, despite yet another deadline passing and a reported four bids received there is [...]

PerthNow brings us the absurd story of a Lamborghini Gallardo impounded under WA hoon laws. It has been alleged that the car was bring driven at speeds of up to 160km/h along the Reid Highway in Balcatta, Western Australia. Not so much absurd about this story then, until you realise the driver of the car [...]

Flavio Briatore, named conspirator in the Renault F1 “Crashgate” scandal, has had his name cleared (sort of) thanks to a French court ruling. The finding states that the FIA’s decision to give Briatore a lifetime ban contained “irregularites” and therefore it “ruled the sanction illegal”. The court also told the FIA they had no right [...]

Imagine a 640hp V8 coupled to a chassis weighing some 200kg less than your average mid size hatchback. Reckon you might be interested? Thought so. Welcome to Fenix Automotive, the latest motoring incarnation of Lee Noble. Yes, that knockabout Brit who loves strapping big motors to lightweight bodies. Having sold off his Noble Automotive outfit, [...]

There’s an interesting interview with WRC-bound Kimi Raikkonen over at The Red Bulletin website. Despite claiming he could return to F1 at a time of his choosing Kimi gives the indication his WRC debut cannot come soon enough. “It’s definitely the biggest challenge yet. I’ve got to learn everything from scratch. But I want the [...]

Following the reveal of the F10 BMW 5 Series last November comes this artist’s rendering of an Estate version. There’s not much else to report, other than the Estate version should be released by BMW later this year. For more on BMW’s new 5 Series click here. [Source: Auto Evolution]