Once again Sebastian Vettel proved his qualifying prowess by putting his Red Bull on pole position for the 2011 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. It is his fourteenth pole for the year and equals the record for most poles a single season with Nigel Mansell’s efforts in 1992. Incredibly, Vettel, now on 29 career pole positions, [...]
A retirement for Ford’s Mikko Hirvonen at the Rally of Great Britain has handed Sebastien Loeb his eighth consecutive WRC title. The rally is still in progress, but Loeb can no longer be beaten for the crown. “Mikko was going like a bat out of hell and we were scrapping for every tenth of a [...]
BMW UK has released this promo video for the F10 M5. It’s well shot, the audio sounds good (even though we suspect it’s been enhanced a little) and does anyone ever get tired of watching a car going sideways? Find out for yourself after the break. In the coming days we’ll have a special insight [...]
Volkswagen’s sassy Golf Cabriolet is now on sale in Australia. With four seats and and retractable soft-top roof it further enhances the model range of the Golf for local buyers. Offered for sale with only the 118 TSI spec engine the Golf Cabrio is priced from $36,990 for the 6-speed manual and $39,490 for the [...]
The stylish Range Rover Evoque has just launched in Australia and get ready, you’ll soon be seeing these everywhere. Certainly, Range Rover is doing its part to cater to the largest audience possible by offering the market an extensive model range. There’s four basic models—three 4WD and one 2WD—available in ‘Pure’, ‘Dynamic’ or ‘Prestige’ specification. [...]
McLaren’s Principal Race Engineer Phil Prew talks us through a lap of the 5.5km Yas Marina circuit ahead of this weekend’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. After the break you can see a preview of the race from Pirelli’s point of view.
The clever clogs from Wild Speed have produced a series of renderings of what they think the new BMW 4 Series coupé (F32) will look like. Of course, expected styling cues from the new F30 3 Series are all there and, also unsurprisingly, the mid-sized 4er looks a bit like a mini-me version of the [...]
The two warring Lotus factions have issued a joint statement that proves everyone really does live happily ever after. In the public eye, at least. We expect behind closed doors there have been many toys thrown out of cots. Apparently the two parties signed off an agreement in the last week or so with the [...]
Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz. My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends. And Lord, can it please be a $245,000 C63 AMG Coupé Black Series? There’s only 32 coming to Australia and I kind of need to know now if you can help or else I will probably miss [...]
Ron Howard and his merry men have recently been spotted shooting scenes for the upcoming movie Rush. The latest motorsport story to hit the silver screen will focus on the epic Niki Lauda–James Hunt battle from the 1976 Formula One season. Pistonspy has a great selection of images of the old skool Grand Prix cars [...]
Bimmerpost brings us some video of the next-gen BMW M3 undergoing testing at the Nürburgring. Although a fair portion of the clip shows the sedan and coupé prototypes on regular public roads as the cars make the short transit between the Nordschleife and BMW’s test facility in the village of Nürburg. We think we know [...]
It looks just like the old one, but Nissan is adamant they have made changes to their flagship GT-R model. First, the big news, a reversing camera is now standard! Of more merit is a 20PS power increase, taking the peak figure up to 550PS (404kW). Twenty seems to be the magic number, too, as [...]
The Richard Burns Foundation has released a poignant video remembering the life of the 2001 WRC champion. It’s been produced to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Burns’ title win and to promote the ‘Paint it Orange’ campaign which endeavours to improve the circumstances of others facing neurological injury and illness. You can support ‘Paint it [...]
Jason White’s Lamborghini Gallardo is a crowd favourite on the Australian tarmac rally scene. Always competitive and always spitting a few flames out the back. But it’s not very often that he wins a rally while his car is genuinely on fire. That’s exactly what happened on the weekend when he took out the 2011 [...]
Evo magazine has assembled 10 of the world’s best performance cars to try and establish which one they think was the best to hit the market in 2011. Following a few phone calls, 10 turned into 11 when they added the just released BMW M5 to the list. As you would. The results of eCOTY [...]