Remember when the Mayor of London promised to can the western extension of the Congestion Charge zone? Well, the process is currently bogged down in boring, unfathomable consultations and bureaucracy.
All quiet on the western front
at 4:45 pm on Friday August 28, 2009Renaultsport Clio 200 Cup
at 11:45 am on Thursday August 20, 2009
It’s a given that the Cup is special. Otherwise it wouldn’t be here, amongst quarter-mil Italian exotica and daft stuff without windscreens. But just how special a £15k French hatchback can really be is something that still took every one of us by surprise.
KTM X-Bow
at 10:13 am on Friday August 14, 2009
The alliance between X-Bow and self was uneasy, initially due to a certain physical discomfort, and latterly thanks to a repeat inability to actually keep it pointing in the right direction.
Tumbleweed moment
at 1:18 pm on Wednesday August 5, 2009
Confused by BMW’s 5 Series Gran Turismo? Take a ticket. Hamann, one of Germany’s least bashful aftermarket modifiers, has got hold of a pre-launch model and then apparently had a total mental blank.
Happy Birthday Audi
at 1:01 pm on Thursday July 16, 2009
Every inbox in Planet Motoring this morning was greeted with the news that Audi is exactly 100 years old today. And that it has chosen to mark this momentous occasion with a five-door sort of mini-estate-cum-saloon/hatchack version of a car originally launched as a coupe. Vorsprung durch Technik indeed.
The future, or the end?
at 2:47 pm on Tuesday July 14, 2009
This could be a week we car fans tell our grandchildren about. Or one we’d just as soon they forget. The official announcement of the Honda CR-Z hybrid marks a huge moment in motoring history and could be the paradigm shift that Top Gear depends upon for its very survival.
Carbage
at 2:43 pm on Tuesday June 16, 2009
Catalogued in Carbage since before the dawn of time, or thereabouts, the atrocities Man inflicts upon Machine clearly know no bounds. But there are moments, albeit very occasional ones, when a work of divine genius appears from the quagmire of aftermarket ad-ons and ill-advised paintjobs.
£16k Veyron… for a day
at 4:00 pm on Thursday June 4, 2009
Impossibly rich? Mad about cars? Or just mad in a medical sense? Then step this way Sir. Yours for a snip at £16,000 a day, the ultimate holiday rental: a Bugatti Veyron.
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