Citroën announces DS5 crossover at Auto Shanghai
Citroën has announced its DS5 at Auto Shanghai, the Shanghai Motor Show. Originally touted as a crossover (blending saloon, coupé and off-roader), the result is more a sleek all-wheel-drive hatchback that carries on the design theme of the smaller DS3 and DS4. The DS5 features Citroën’s Hybrid4 diesel technology: 200 PS, four-wheel drive, electric […]
Dairy Queen rewards acts of kindness with Mini Countryman competition
We’re sure many of us have, at some time or another, hoped that people doing good deeds would be recorded with more than karma. If you’re the type who commits acts of kindness, Dairy Queen is running a competition for American readers which rewards people for those good deeds. The prize: one of six […]
Ford previews 2011 Territory with official illustration
While we get ready to announce our Car to Be Seen in for 2011, Ford has released a surprise drawing for the next Territory SUV. This was an SUV we were prepared to hate in the early 2000s, till we got behind the wheel of the very earliest models in 2004. And we instantly […]
Range Rover shows five-door Evoque: videos
The Range Rover Evoque, whose launch we covered earlier this year when Victoria Beckham was announced as a design executive for Land Rover, will spawn a five-door model, to be shown at the Los Angeles Auto Show on November 17. The sleek lines of the original are interrupted slightly with the extra door, and […]
Ssangyong revives Korando nameplate for small SUV
It takes a lot of guts to use one of your company’s old nameplates and to apply it to a new type of car altogether. Ssangyong, which had been on the brink for years, has been given a new lease of life by Chinese automaker SAIC, which took over the firm six years ago. […]
BMW releases video footage of the 2011 X3
Hopefully this video host (SmugMug) won’t disappear. On that note, here’s the 2011 BMW X3, which is larger than the model it replaces (whose role is taken over largely by the new X1). The videos were issued by BMW several days ago. Made in Spartanburg, South Carolina, alongside the X5 and X6, the X3 […]
Peugeot announces 3008 diesel hybrid, with 74 mpg
Peugeot has announced what it calls the first diesel ‘full hybrid’ car, the 3008 Hybrid4 crossover. To date, production hybrid vehicles have used a petrol engine. By using an already fuel-efficient diesel with 120 kW (163 bhp), the 3008 Hybrid4 manages a combined drive cycle fuel consumption of 3·8 l/100 km (74·4 mpg [Imperial]) […]
Range Rover, Victoria Beckham show new Evoque model
Victoria Beckham was one of the guests at the launch of the Range Rover Evoque, held in conjunction with Vogue at Kensington Palace yesterday. Beckham, who was announced as the company’s creative design executive, said she was looking forward to working with Range Rover design director Gerry McGovern. ‘I’m incredibly excited to be […]
End of the line for Ford’s Falcon Wagon
Ford has announced that the Falcon Wagon, part of a model line that has been made in Australia since the early 1960s, will cease production. The Falcon sedan will continue in to the middle of the decade. Its replacement is still unclear, but a final decision will be made by Ford management next year. […]
Mini announces SUV model, the Countryman
Mini has tried to extend its range while it was under British ownership, but it seems, as with so many things automotive, the Germans have been more successful. BMW has announced that the regular Mini hatch, the Mini convertible and the Mini Clubman will be joined by the five-door Mini Countryman, a taller SUV-style model […]
