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Jaguar Land Rover Sales Give Best May Sales Ever

Jaguar Land Rover Sales Give Best May Sales Ever

Jaguar alone was up a massive 36%

Jaguar Land Rover had its best May sales ever, and Jaguar is doing especially well. Jaguar Land Rover sold 32,477 cars in May, a 12% improvement. Jaguar sold 6,174 cars, up 36%, and Land Rover sold 26,303 cars, up 8%. For the year from January...
17.06.2013 | 1184 views | 0 comments
MG Showcases MG3 at Birmingham Design Center

MG Showcases MG3 at Birmingham Design Center

It will go on sale in September

MG has revealed more details on its forthcoming MG3 hatchback at its Birmingham, England, European Design Center. Production of the MG3 will go on sale in a few weeks and sales in the UK will begin in September.  “It’s got a d...
17.06.2013 | 1685 views | 1 comments
Williams Happy with Bottas Despite Poor Canada Result

Williams Happy with Bottas Despite Poor Canada Result

Bottas qualified in third place for the Canadian Grand Prix

Williams is very happy with Finnish rookie Valtteri Bottas for his on-track speed and off-track attitude, despite him not scoring any points this season. Bottas had his best qualifying performance of his career at the Canadian Grand Prix where...
17.06.2013 | 2112 views | 0 comments
Audi Plans to Unveil Ultimate R8 GT at Le Mans

Audi Plans to Unveil Ultimate R8 GT at Le Mans

It will be the fastest version ever of the R8

The first generation Audi R8's production run is coming to an end in the coming years, and to celebrate the car's success Audi is planning to reveal a second version of the limited edition R8 GT that will be the fastest R8 ever put into pr...
17.06.2013 | 2988 views | 0 comments
Alfa Romeo MiTo Starts New 'Live Rock' Advertising Campaign

Alfa Romeo MiTo Starts New 'Live Rock' Advertising Campaign

It advertises the refreshed 2014 MiTo

Alfa Romeo started a new advertising campaign for the MiTo this summer called 'Live Rock' on June 16. The campaign will be on television, press, posters and radio in Italia to advertise the refreshed 2014 MiTo. The campaign starts a fr...
17.06.2013 | 9885 views | 0 comments
Lamborghini Gallardo Replacement Concept Due for Frankfurt

Lamborghini Gallardo Replacement Concept Due for Frankfurt

It is expected to go on sale next year

Audi and Lamborghini have not kept the secret very well that a new generation for the platform for the R8 and Gallardo are coming next year. The concept for the Gallardo successor is planned to debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September. Sales...
17.06.2013 | 5093 views | 0 comments
Toyota Chairman Wants Hybrid Sports Car to Be Supra Succesor

Toyota Chairman Wants Hybrid Sports Car to Be Supra Succesor

The car is in co-development with BMW

Toyota's incoming chairman Takeshi Uchiyamada says that he would like the upcoming sports car being co-developed by BMW and Toyota to be the spiritual successor to the Supra. He wants the car to have more performance than the GT86 so that...
17.06.2013 | 15367 views | 0 comments
Volvo S60 Joining Australian V8 Supercar Championship in 2014

Volvo S60 Joining Australian V8 Supercar Championship in 2014

Polestar will run the racing team

Volvo will enter the V8 Supercars Champsionship in 2014 with two S60s, and Volvo’s racing and tuning arm Polestar will run the team. Polestar and current V8 Supercars team Garry Rogers Motorsport will create Volvo Polestar Racing Austral...
17.06.2013 | 3659 views | 0 comments
The New 4 Series Is More than Just a 3 Series with Fewer Doors

The New 4 Series Is More than Just a 3 Series with Fewer Doors

BMW retuned the steering and suspension to be more sporting

BMW has explained it decision to double its nameplates with odd numbers for sedans and even numbers for coupes, ignoring the 6 Series Gran Coupe that is, by saying that it plans to further differentiate the style of its cars, and the best way to d...
17.06.2013 | 2529 views | 1 comments
Weekend Motorsports Preview: Lots of Touring Car Action

Weekend Motorsports Preview: Lots of Touring Car Action

There is NASCAR, DTM, Super GT and V8 Supercars this weekend

It is another fairly light motorsports weekend. The major touring car series all have races. Though if you are a fan of racing in the United States there is also an IndyCar Series race from the Milwaukee Mile and a Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Se...
14.06.2013 | 929 views | 0 comments

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