It doesn't take much to entice me out of my office and when Pete phoned me up asking if I fancied a road trip to Mercedes-Benz World, I had a job to control my excitement. I have never really fallen in love with any Mercedes, but I do like them, but they are not a car that is ever on my list of cars … [Read more...]
Archives for January 2014
Michael Schumacher May Be In Vegetative State Forever
Fears are rising as it’s been nearly a month that Michael Schumacher had that horrific ski accident in the French Alps. Doctors who are fighting to save the life of the Formula 1 legend still do not have a date when they want to bring Michael out of the medical induced coma. Even though Michael … [Read more...]
Porsche 911 RSR Tackles New Season From First Grid Row
At the 24 Hours of Daytona, the Porsche 911 RSR fielded by the Porsche North America works team tackles the highly-competitive GTLM class from the first grid row on Saturday. For the inaugural race of the new Tudor United SportsCar Championship on the Daytona International Speedway, Porsche factory … [Read more...]
McLaren Automotive Expands Sales Network With Announcement Of Mclaren Bangkok
McLaren Automotive continues to grow and strengthen the global retailer network with the appointment of the latest retail partner in Thailand. McLaren Bangkok is the eighth location in Asia for the British high performance sports car brand, and marks the 30th market worldwide. McLaren Bangkok … [Read more...]
Caterham F1 Team And Caterham Racing Announce 2014 Driver Line-ups
Caterham F1 Team and Caterham Racing have confirmed their 2014 driver line-ups with the announcement that Kamui Kobayashi and Marcus Ericsson will race in Formula One in the forthcoming season with Robin Frijns and Alexander Rossi as F1 team Reserve Drivers. In addition, Alexander and Rio Haryanto … [Read more...]
Toyota FT-1 – Ultimate Sports Coupe Concept
Toyota for me has never really been a car company that I have a massive interest in. Yes, the Supra was a nice-looking car, and yes it was quick, but it was never a car that I ever really had the need or urge to go and drive. Then, there was the Toyota Celica.... All I am going to say on that is … [Read more...]
Large Porsche Turnout At The Sports Car Classic In Florida
The 24 Hours of Daytona on January 25th marks the start of the inaugural season of the Tudor United SportsCar Championship (USCC). For the first time in this new American sports car race series, Porsche runs a works team under the flag of Porsche North America. Porsche is represented by a large … [Read more...]
Joan “Nani” Roma Wins The 2014 Dakar Rally
Joan "Nani" Roma (ES) in the yellow MINI ALL4 Racing has won the 2014 Dakar Rally. The Monster Energy X-raid Team driver finished the toughest rally challenge in the world just 5:32 minutes in front of his teammate Stéphane Peterhansel (FR) in the black MINI ALL4 Racing. Nasser Al-Attiyah (QT) in … [Read more...]
Mclaren Gt Confirms Kevin Estre As Factory Driver For 2014 Season
Ahead of the 2014 season, McLaren GT has confirmed the addition of French driver Kevin Estre to its factory driver line-up for this year. The announcement follows Estre’s impressive performances throughout the 2013 season, which concluded with a podium finish at the Baku City Challenge in the 12C … [Read more...]
UK Police Now Also Have McLaren’s In Their Fleet
I was at the AutoSport 2014 event at the NEC and although a lot of people were disappointed by the standard of the show and what it lacked something did stand out for me, and that was the UK Police force now have a very nice addition to their fleet of Police cars, and that is the McLaren … [Read more...]
RC F: The Most Powerful Lexus V8 Performance Car Yet
Lexus today revealed the RC F, a high-performance version of its new RC coupe, at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The unveiling coincided with the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Lexus brand at same event. The great visual impact of the RC F is matched by the impressive … [Read more...]
New Porsche 911 Targa 2014
Featuring the innovative Targa roof: The world premiere of a modern classic World premiere of the 911 Targa: At the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit, Porsche is presenting the latest generation of the extravagant 911 model to the public. This model is the first to combine … [Read more...]
Porsche Delivers More Than 162,000 Vehicles
Porsche delivers more than 162,000 vehicles to customers for the first time For the first time in the history of the company, Porsche delivered more than 162,000 vehicles to customers across the world last year. This figure corresponds to an increase of 15 per cent in comparison to 2012. The … [Read more...]
World Premiere Of A Modern Classic: The Porsche 911 Targa
Stuttgart. Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG is kicking off 2014 with a spectacular world premiere by using the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) as a platform to showcase the Porsche 911 Targa1. The sportscar combines the design of a Porsche original with innovative technical solutions to … [Read more...]
2013 Was A Super Year For Supercars
well we are almost a week into 2014 and looking back at 2013 it was a super year for supercars. McLaren, Ferrari and not forgetting Lamborghini were all trying to out do each other by building high specced cars that cost millions of pounds, and I have to say it has been eye-opening and looking at … [Read more...]
The Elise S Cup R Makes Global Debut At Autosport 2014
The Elise S Cup R takes its place in the stable alongside big brothers the Exige V6 Cup and Exige Cup R and the mighty Evora GT4 in Birmingham between 9th and 12th January 2014, illustrating the variety of appeal of the Lotus Motorsport family. The Lotus suite of products caters for all levels of … [Read more...]