Archive for June, 2010

ELECTRIC car news reports often contain reference to trials, incentives or other such, in association with CENEX. This appears to be some sort of mysterious body facilitating the genesis of ...

LOTUS this week fired up an apoplectic rage of motoring journos exploring ingeniously creative alternative takes on the image of Colin Chapman spinning in his grave (I respectfully bowed out ...

Suzuki’s all-new Swift may look nothing of the sort, but there’s far more of interest below the same-again surface. At the Austrian launch, Suzuki flew over a veritable entourage to ...

BMW’s latest 5 Series marks the introduction of 4-cylinder engines into the F10 platform. Until now, it’s been all 6-cylinders or V8s. Powertrain manager Jan Kretschmer revealed what’s been keeping ...

HOW do you make a MINI One engine? Make a MINI Cooper engine and detune it. Simples. It’s true, as well. All 1.6-litre MINI engines, be they in the First, ...

HP has measured engine power for years – but has its day come? We’re all familiar with the merits of a 250hp engine alongside 200hp one. We know a 75hp ...

Audi has shown the perils of great-on-paper ideas that go wrong in a marketing stunt that by rights should have you squirming. As the news report explains, the idea was ...

ELECTRIC cars are a new technology with different standards that require familiarisation. To help, I’m getting my head around it all – and plan to blog my findings as I ...

FORD ran a press launch for the facelifted S-Max range last month – and, in each test car, laid an A4 factsheet. I cribbed one of these and was so ...

MINI isn’t mini anymore – you don’t have to hunt on forums for long to find this grumble. Indeed not: the current hatchback is 3699mm, which is far larger than ...