The stylish and impressive Bentley Continental has just stepped up a gear to impress – with the unveiling of this convertible version. So not only can you can impress with one of the world’s most incredible vehicles, you can also […]
Would it be a cliché to begin this with a contrived gag about the VW Beetle being popular with Beatles fans and now music lovers have a Fender version to buy? The new VW Beetle Fender I think so, but […]
I’ve flagged up before on this blog that the new safety criteria for cars is going to cause manufacturers some serious headaches – and so it has come to pass. In what will, no doubt, be a regular update on […]
No-one makes jokes about Skoda cars anymore and the revamped Octavia is the perfect illustration of why not. The new family hatchback is bigger, with (it’s claimed) class-leading interior space. It goes on sale next March with a ‘hot’ petrol […]
It’s hard to believe but the new generation of the popular VW Golf is in its seventh incarnation. The New VW Golf The new Golf is lighter, safer, more advanced, more spacious, more efficient and better equipped than previous generations […]
Yours truly has been scouting out the South of France on an expedition called ‘holidays’ for a while. What he found there is that Frog-land France is a great place for gear-heads with a nostalgic inclination, especially in the rural […]
Here’s something cool: one reigning stereotype about hybrid cars was mangled by Volkswagen this week. Namely, that they’re slow, I mean, that is exactly what everybody thinks about them, right? Ever since the early twentieth century people and companies with […]
The Hyundai-Kia combination currently is the world’s fourth largest carmaker, after Toyota, GM and VW – not necessarily always in that order – but ahead of the other giant called Ford. In other words, they’re big! There’s no denying the […]
Volkswagen was one of the first Western carmakers to partner up with a native Chinese manufacturer to produce and sell VW cars in China. Now it turns out that one of their partners, FAW – First Automobile Works – is […]
Only four more weeks and my better half and I will be packing stacks of junk in the car and head for Southern France. It’s hot there: air conditioning is a must. Unfortunately the a/c on my lovely 1998 BMW […]
Beetle lovers will be able to enjoy two engines to the range with either a 2.0-litre 140 PS TDI turbodiesel engine, or a 2.0-litre 200 PS TSI turbocharged petrol engine. The latter is enough to propel this bug from zero […]
The sales of new cars in Europe keep on falling it seems. The good news (of sorts) is that the fall in June was less than the fall in previous months. Celebrating a smaller fall seems a bit like throwing […]
The current Seat Leon never appealed to me one bit. I’m of the opinion that lines and design elements need to have a ‘reason’ and not be (seemingly) randomly placed. In the Leon there was only one thing that completely […]
I’m not 100% sure if they were the first, but at the back end of the nineties, VW came up with a new incarnation of a (very) old model: the New Beetle. Since then, many carmakers have followed suit. Mini […]
