Car News

Tesla is targeting a much larger market at the end of 2017 when the Model 3 is expected to make its debut. Announced this week in Los Angeles and like Tesla’s previous three designs completely electric, the Model 3 is pitched as the company’s first ‘affordable’ car. Tesla says that it will sell from $35,000 before incentives in America, and ...

Next year Mazda dealers will once again have two distinct versions of the popular MX-5 sports car to sell when a new hardtop model arrives in showrooms. The MX-5 RF was unveiled this week at the New York International Motor Show and features a retractable metal roof. A UK launch date and price is yet to be confirmed but industry ...

The S90 saloon and V90 estate will arrive in dealer showrooms in September and October respectively. Prices will range from £32,555 to £44,055, the estate models carrying a £2,000 premium over the saloons. Like the XC90 SUV, which is already on sale, the S90 and V90, seen at the Geneva  Motor Show, both use Volvo’s latest Scalable Product Architecture (SPA) ...

The fifth generation Mondeo went on sale in UK showrooms at the beginning of 2015 and re-confirmed the car’s no-nonsense reputation as a comfortable, practical and hard grafting workhorse; beloved by families and fleets for over 20 years. The latest incarnation is more upmarket looking than ever before with its supersized grille, attractive bonnet and flowing lines giving it an ...

This year’s Geneva Motor Show is under way with over 120 new cars making their world and European debuts from the Bugatti Chiron, Maserati Levante and Aston Martin DB11 to the Volvo V90, Alfa Romeo Giulia and Audi Q2. The scale of the show is immense with over 650,000 visitors expected to attend over the course of the next two ...

Debuting at the Geneva Motor Show this week is a car set to be the fastest, and also one of the most expensive, production models in the market. The Bugatti Chiron succeeds the Veyron, and while that car set a host of records, the Chiron is expected to beat them all. Bugatti describes the Chiron as the most powerful, fastest, ...

Maserati will join the ranks of luxury manufacturers offering SUVs this spring when the Levante enters UK showrooms. The car will be revealed next week at the Geneva Motor Show and is expected to be priced from £65,000 which would place it in the middle of Maserati’s expanding line-up. The launch will also see Maserati competing against Bentley’s new Bentayga ...

MONTH TWO: We’ve been running the Ford Mondeo 1.0 Ecoboost since December and in that time have put 2,300 miles on the clock and tested its ultra low fuel consumption claims. The 1.0-litre petrol Ecoboost engine is undeniably an impressive piece of kit and Ford’s decision to place it into its fourth generation Mondeo, which weighs in at 1.5 tonnes, ...

Mitsubishi dealers are seeing a rise in orders for the Outlander PHEV ahead of changes to the government’s Plug-in Car Grant which will see the rate halved on vehicles bought after 1 March 2016. The rate reduces from £5,000 to £2,500 but the full rate will be honoured on all vehicles ordered before 1 March and delivered within nine months ...

Volvo will add the all-new V90 estate to its line-up to give the brand a three-strong range-topping line-up by the end of 2016, with which to take on premium heavyweights such as BMW’s 5 Series. The Volvo V90 estate, announced ahead of its public debut at the Geneva Motor Show on 1 March, will go on sale in Q4 2016. ...