The Latest News, Announcements And Rumours From The World Of Cars
This is the Ford Focus. It’s also their first completely electric car…ever. And it’s on display at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show now. Powered by a 23 kWh lithium-ion battery pack, the Focus Electric has a target range of 100 miles and can be recharged in 3-4 hours. Based on the fossil-fuelled five-door hatchback, most [...]
When the 2012 Geneva Motor Show kicks off on March 6th, Seat will whip the covers off this, the new Seat Toledo concept. The previous Toledo was a supersized MPV, essentially an Altea with an awkward boot swelling out the back. The new fourth-generation Toledo which is based on the Volkswagen Jetta slots into the [...]
This is the Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid and it is here to save the world. Official figures indicate that it can cover 134.5 miles per gallon of petrol while breathing out just 49 g/km of CO2. That makes it Britain’s most efficient car by a considerable margin, provided you don’t count completely electric vehicles. But [...]
The new 2013 Volvo V40 is expected to debut at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show in March. And while Volvo has started to ramp up the promotional intensity with a silhouette teaser on Facebook, they’re too late. In fact, after a series of leaked images (from Auto Motor Sport Sweden, Dutch site Autoblog.nl, French magazine [...]
This is the newly facelifted 2012 Toyota Prius. Available in the UK from March 2012 priced from £21,350 the third generation hybrid continues to improve in terms of refinement and quality. So let’s see what changes have taken place. In Inside, the changes are aimed at raising the perception of quality. New trim, upholstery and [...]
The annual What Car awards ceremony took place in London on January 11th and awarded 17 prestigious titles. Judged by a panel of journalists from the What Car magazine headed by editor Chas Hallett, German manufacturers did exceptionally well, collecting 10 of the 16 category awards and the overall car of the year title. Winners [...]
This is the new 2013 Ford Mondeo, revealed to coincide with the launch of the new Ford Fusion at the 2012 Detroit Motor Show. Confused? Ford no longer makes market-specific models, so each model has to be used around the world. In America the Fusion is a Mondeo-like family saloon unlike the blue-rinse shopping buggy [...]
Welcome to the first ever Motoring Spy Awards. It’s that time of year again dear reader, when the interweb is awash with awards and year-end reviews. So here is our humble contribution to the world of motoring medals. We’ve got 14 prestigious awards to dish out including 3 awards voted for by Motoring Spy readers, [...]
This it the new 2012 Suzuki Kizashi. It’s their first bash at a mid-size saloon. And if our Japanese is any good it means “a sign of great things to come”, which sounds rather optimistic and hopeful. But will it live up to such a grand epithet or will it be crushed underfoot by rivals? [...]
This is the Mazda Takeri Concept which recently made its debut at the 2011 Tokyo Motor Show. The slinky saloon features many of the styling cues and high-tech equipment which will appear on the next-generation Mazda 6 when it goes on sale in January 2013. And although Mazda’s new mid-size car will grow to fulfill [...]
