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Green cars and eco sub-brands have to be a staple of any right-thinking manufacturer these days.  If you’re not showing off your eco credentials with a special badge applied to your ...

Peugeot has achieved sub-130g/km status this year. That’ll please European legislators, who say European car makers must hit this range-average target – or else…. they’ll pay. It’s been a gradual ...

Volvo’s Concept You again showed off the firm’s Scaleable Platform Architecture at the 2011 Frankfurt IAA. SPA will underpin most of the brand’s future models. Instead of creating unique platforms ...

There are only so many things you can call a car without losing all sense of rationality. Back in the day, it was L, GL, GLX, Ghia. Throw in a ...

Ford recently announced a series of future model plans in a surprise revelation whose openness took many by surprise. That’s the way it has to be now, a spokesman told ...

Land Rover this week launched the Defender version that will give the oldest Landie on sale yet another stay of execution. The old 2.4-litre Ford Transit engine has been replaced ...

There are many reasons why I like Saab. Such as, the 1986 900 Turbo 16 (in black, ta), XWD, the dials in the new 9-5 and the air vent control ...

Motoring journalists road-test cars by living with them: doing all the things with them that they’d do with their own cars.  It’s not as glamorous as blasting round the test ...

Porsche is not phasing out the 997 just yet. Nor is it admitting the 991 is actually on the way.  That’s despite prototype tests of the 911, in which many ...

McLaren F1 owners are currently in possession of a potential goldmine. Literally.  The price of gold is at an all-time high: on Friday, the intraday price rose to $1637.50/oz, as ...