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  Jazeman Jaafar to continue in British F3 series with Carlin

  9 February 2011 / 6 comments

  Petronas-backed Malaysian driver Jazeman Jaafar will stay with championship winning team Carlin in 2011, returning to the Cooper Tires British F3 International Series for a second season of competition. The 18-year-old had a strong rookie […]

   

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  Cutting back on green subsidies topples the Prius

  9 February 2011 / 5 comments

  Well, it had to end at some point. Figures of Japanese car sales released late last week saw the Toyota Prius being toppled from the monthly No 1 spot as Japan’s best-selling car, a position […]

   

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  Toyota Highlander and Subaru Tribeca to share platform?

  9 February 2011 / 7 comments

  The sharing, caring world grows ever so bigger, which makes sense in this day and age. Reports are rife that Toyota and Subaru is working towards using the same platform for their next-generation Highlander and […]

   

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  U.S. Dept of Transport: Toyota e-throttles not defective

  9 February 2011 / 15 comments

  It’s sweet vindication for Toyota after the U.S. Department of Transportation said that electric systems and electromagnetic interference played no role in unintended acceleration cases. Reports of runaway cars and the subsequent persecution led the […]

   

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  Ssangyong SUT 1 – more Actyon Sports to thrill you

  8 February 2011 / 7 comments

  If it looks familiar, it’s because it is – Ssangyong’s latest concept, called the SUT 1, is a reworking of its Actyon Sports, all dressed up and ready to go. To Geneva, in this case. […]

   

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  Citroën E-3POD Antistatic: in between bike and car

  8 February 2011 / 3 comments

  Click to enlarge This here is Heikki Juvonen’s E-3POD Antistatic, a single-seat concept that bagged the top prize in a Citroën sponsored project in the UK called the Double Challenge. The project, jointly sponsored by […]

   

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  Mazda celebrates another MX-5 milestone – 900,000 built

  8 February 2011 / 6 comments

  Click to enlarge Okay, so they didn’t wait till a million before breaking into the really big song and dance, but 900,000 is kinda good enough to pop the bubbly, in this case. Click to […]

   

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  Infiniti Etherea Concept to be revealed in Geneva

  8 February 2011 / 3 comments

  Infiniti has teased its upcoming concept car, likely to be named the Etherea, that it will be launching in Geneva, but it’s just a graphic depicting the profile line. As is the usual, there are […]

   

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  Peugeot 308 updated with new grille and LED DRL

  8 February 2011 / 56 comments

  Peugeot has given the C-segment Peugeot 308 a makeover featuring a significantly revamped front end that showcases a new ‘floating’ style for the front grille as well as boomerang-shaped LED daytime running lights to complement […]

   

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  Hyundai i40 – first image revealed of VF wagon’s interior

  7 February 2011 / 18 comments

  Click to enlarge More on the teaser front, it seems. Hyundai new VF wagon, better known as the i40, will be making its world premiere in Geneva, and the company has released the first official […]

   

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  Toyota Yaris HSD Concept – B-segment hybrid for Geneva

  7 February 2011 / 10 comments

  Toyota looks like its aiming for a serious push down the hybrid path into Europe’s largest market sector, the B-segment, and will show the precursor to things in the form of the Yaris HSD Concept, […]

   

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  Volkswagen Tiguan facelift to debut in Geneva

  7 February 2011 / 5 comments

  Volkswagen’s Tiguan compact SUV has been given a mid-life facelift, and the first photos of the revised 4WD vehicle have been revealed ahead of the its public debut at the Geneva Motor Show next month. […]

   

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  Ferrari FF – yet more dynamic photos of the four-seater

  7 February 2011 / 3 comments

  Ferrari has released another set of photographs of its upcoming FF four-seater, and these have the car in action in the snow. The photos show both an advanced prototype and a final model hamming it […]

   

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  Brabus S 350 BlueTEC – first tuned car to meet Euro VI

  2 February 2011 / 9 comments

  Click to enlarge Brabus has introduced its ECO PowerXtra D6S performance kit on the new Mercedes-Benz S 350 BlueTEC, making it the world’s first tuned car to meet the new Euro VI exhaust emission standard. […]

   

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  What is a diesel MINI Cooper S? The Cooper SD of course!

  2 February 2011 / 6 comments

  Click to enlarge The MINI family has the Cooper S, the performance petrol version. The diesel MINI, which we don’t get here in Malaysia, is the Cooper D. So naturally, the performance diesel variant will […]

   

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