The Latest News, Announcements And Rumours From The World Of Cars
A total of 61,868 new cars found a home in Britain during February 2012. That’s a drop of 2.5% compared with February 2011. However, the news isn’t all bad as total sales for 2012 are down just 0.8% compared with last year. Top 10 Best Selling UK Cars – Feb 2012 At the top of [...]
New car sales in Britain rose just 0.03% during January 2012 compared with the figure from 12 months ago. That’s an increase of just 200 cars to 128,853 during the month, but represents welcome signs of stability given the state of the economy. Top 10 Best Selling UK Cars – Jan 2012 Once again the [...]
A total of 119,188 new cars found a UK home among the mince pies and Christmas jumpers during December 2011. But the figures published by SMMT show that new car sales in Britain fell by 3.7% compared with December 2010. As expected, the Ford Fiesta was the best selling car of the month. It also [...]
A few weeks ago we brought you details of the new 2013 Peugeot 208. And bearing in mind the pedigree of the previous 200 series models, it has a lot to live up to. So you can hardly blame the suits at Peugeot for building up the hype. Well this is the second stage of [...]
A total of 134,027 new cars were sold in the UK during November 2011. Figures published by SMMT show that new car sales fell by 4.2% compared with November 2010. Top 10 Best Selling UK Cars – Nov 2011 1. Ford Fiesta – 6,195 Sales 2. Vauxhall Corsa – 5,234 Sales 3. Volkwagen Golf – [...]
Lotus has unveiled yet another special edition car. This time it’s a Lotus Evora GTE developed in conjunction with Swizz Beatz. Lotus CEO Dany Bahar pulled the covers off the special edition chrome Evora GTE at a special event at the IAC building in New York City last Wednesday. The PR But strip away all [...]
Remember that amazing Honda advert when all the car parts formed part of a massive chain reaction? Well now it’s your turn thanks to Honda’s cool new chain reaction browser game. Just drag and drop the random objects into the right order. Shuffle them around, try new ideas then click start to see whether you’ve [...]
Mercedes-Benz’s parent company Daimler has pulled the Axminster rug from under its poorly-performing Maybach brand. The luxury brand which has failed to live up to sales expectations since it launched in 2002 will cease production and disappear by 2013. Daimler boss Dieter Zetsche told German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung “we held extensive discussions internally about [...]
A racy new commercial for the Fiat 500 Abarth could be banned from television in the US and breaches Australian advertising regulations. And come to think of it, we don’t expect to see it on telly in the UK either. But can you guess why? Take a look at the ad, entitled “seduction” and draw [...]
Porsche has been tempting us with hints about a new entry-level “baby Boxster” for some time now. But as things stand, a final decision has still to be made. The final decision was due this year, but that may now be pushed back to 2012. In a recent interview with the Financial Times Deutschland, Porsche [...]
