Here’s something for those who don’t have any plans tonight and are spending time surfing the internet. Fifth Gear recently held a pretty pointless shootout between a MINI GP and a remote controlled car. That’s 218 horsepower versus 1.5 horsepower, but of course you have to consider the remote controlled car is practically weightless [...]

Another bit of fun with advertising, this is one of BMW’s ads in Spain. Putting a play on the phrase “scaredy cat”, it shows the trademark Jaguar hood ornament running away in fear from a BMW in a face-off.
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The government has made some changes to the private vehicle road tax structure, with effect tomorrow - 1st January 2007. Road tax rates have been lowered by amounts between 4% TO 33%. There has also been some changes to the excise duty structure, which I know would come as good news for certain marques [...]

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars will unveil its new Phantom Drophead Coupé at the 2007 Detroit Motor Show (NAIAS) beginning Sunday 7 January 2007. Production of the new car will start at Goodwood in the summer of 2007. A few features from the previous Rolls-Royce 100EX concept convertible has been adopted for the new Rolls Royce [...]

The Toyota Auris hatchback has been given a new Corolla Axio-like front end to match the tastes of the Japanese market and is now in sale in Japan as the Toyota Blade, positioned as a premium hatchback. The Japanese market Toyota Blade is equipped with the 2AZ-FE 2.4 liter DOHC VVT-i engine, similiar to [...]

Analysts from various institutes have pegged the year 2007 as the year which will end the 5-year cycle of record global auto sales worldwide. Scotia Economics says weaker sales in mature markets such as Canada, the United States, Western Europe and Japan will offset momentum in China, India and Latin America next year.
Canada’s [...]

Nissan’s SUV offensive continued with the Nissan Rogue, positioned somewhere between the current Nissan Murano and the recently unveiled Nissan Qashqai, set to be a competitor against the likes of the Honda CR-V, in fact it’s size is similiar, only slightly bigger. Something not as high and and luxurious as the Murano.

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Based on popular demand from readers, I’ve set up an additional discussion area here for you guys to interact. While interaction on this blog is limited to the topics I post, the new paultan.org forums will allow you to discuss anything you want, as long as it’s related to the topics I’ve defined of [...]

The first fruits of BMW Group and PSA Peugeot Citroën’s collaboration is the Prince Engine, used in a few Peugeot cars like the 307, 207, 207 GT and the upcoming 207 GTI and BMW’s new 2nd generation MINI Cooper and MINI Cooper S (1.6 normally aspirated and turbo variants) as well as the upcoming [...]

China, the world’s 2nd largest auto market had grown 25% since last year, reaching 6.45 million vehicles in the first 11 months of 2006. With such a huge market to tap, it is obvious that investors would be setting their eyes on the China auto market. But not all is well. China’s National Development [...]