Elio Motors showed off its three-wheeler at the International CES technology show in Las Vegas this week and announced the next step in its plan to put the vehicle into production. The US company’s model plan is to produce an ultra-frugal, low-cost vehicle using 90 per cent of domestically sourced components. The…
The launch of the Caterham Aeroseven has been pushed back to 2015 owing to a complete redesign. The 600kg, 237bhp AeroSeven was originally scheduled to go on sale in Autumn of this year. Caterham Group CEO Graham Macdonald told Autocar that the delay was needed to make changes to the…
You might not have seen MG Motor’s previous effort, the 6, around your way much, but rest assured, the Chinese/British hybrid badge is not going away. Sizeable investment in Longbridge has put some genuine meat back on the manufacturer’s borrowed bones and the second model to be (re)built on the…
Anyone involved in the British motorsport industry knows that it is one of this country’s major success stories, but a new survey has shown just how impressive it really is. The Motorsport Industry Association has just completed a review of the UK’s Motorsport Valley Business Cluster. If that sounds like…
These spy pictures are reported to show a new Ferrari race car, with speculation suggesting it could be a prototype for anything from a new LaFerrari hypercar-based racer to a full blown LMP1 Le Mans racer. The car, which was testing at Fiorano for the second time in the past…
Rolls-Royce is seriously considering reconfiguring its environmentally friendly Goodwood factory to build the proposed SUV model, according to CEO Torsten Müller-Ötvös. The factory, built on the Goodwood estate at Westhampnett, near Chichester, was opened in 2003 to build the Rolls-Royce Phantom, and stands in an officially designated Area of Outstanding…
They may make the best mile-eaters in the world, but Britain’s luxo-limo manufacturers, Rolls-Royce and Bentley, combined yesterday to save me a journey of at least four hours and 225 miles. By coincidence, both companies chose yesterday — and locations in Central London — to reveal their results for 2013.…
Volkswagen has brought its 1.4-litre petrol engine to the North America-spec version of its Passat saloon. The VW Passat BlueMotion Concept will appear at the Detroit motor show next week. There’s no word on whether or not it will make production, with VW likely to be using the car’s appearance…
The Zenos E10 sports car has been revealed at the Autosport International show in Birmingham. Director of the company and former Caterham cars CEO Ansar Ali unveiled the car, which is powered by a 197bhp 2.0-litre Ford engine. Available with either a five or six-speed manual transmission, the E10 weighs…
There is more to life in motorsport than just Formula 1, and at this time of year the attention turns to the Dakar Rally – the greatest automotive challenge left. The 35th annual Dakar Rally kicked off on Sunday in the city of Rosario in Argentina, with a field of…