After rumours over the last few days it seems the credit crunch has again hit us with confirmation that that the 2010 British Motor Show has been cancelled until further notice. Organiser IMIE said it will relaunch the exhibition, but won’t give a date. MD Rob Mackenzie said: “The show will be postponed until market conditions permit us to stage [...]

You may, or may not have heard about the Terrafugia, if not, think Francisco Scaramanga’s, ‘is it a car, is it a plane’ scene in James Bond’s The Man with the Golden Gun. The Terrafugia is the first working ‘roadable aircraft’ and last week made it’s first voyage (voyage may be a bit strong) flying down a runway for approximately [...]

Lexus have announced details of it’s new four-seater convertible dubbed the IS 250C. Based (loosely) on the saloon version, it actually only shares a handful of shared external features with it’s permanently hard-topped sibling. These being the bonnet, headlamps, door handles and mirrors. Everything seems to have been tailored to fit that sweeping 2 piece roof, which takes a mere [...]

The much loved Toyota MR2 is rumoured to be making a comeback. Toyota is developing a new performance hybrid which would revive the missed sportcar and bring it well into the 21st century. The Mid-engined, Rear-wheel drive 2 seater was first released back in 1984 and quickly became loved the world over as a small, affordable sportscar. The mark 2 [...]

You may well have been browsing eBay today looking for last-minute, cheap bargains and stumbled across the original SSC Ultimate Aero TT that currently holds the Guinness (apt given today is St Patrick’s Day!) World Record of the top speed for a production car. The 2007 model hit 257MPH and comes with 1183 horses housed in a twin-turbo V8, Palladium [...]

Top gear will return to our screens in June of this year for series 13. However it has been warned that due to budget cuts stunts and production will be ‘less glamorous’ than previous seasons. However we will see the whole team with Clarkson, Hammond, May and of course the Stig.

Once upon a time everything was beige and boxy, but the likes of Coolermaster, Thermaltake and Shuttle have taken us to a new level in PC design and made them more acceptable in the living room. Well Thermaltake have gone a step further who asked BMW DesignWorksUSA, to help design and create a new concept in high-end computing. Named the [...]

You should remember us commenting on the Bentley Supersports at the Geneva Motor Show a few weeks back, which despite being the fastest Bentley to date was also the greenest. This is because the Supersports can run on Tree-Hugging Bio-Ethanol as well as good ol’ Unleaded. Bio-Ethanol produces less CO2 than regular fuels and is a renewable due to the [...]

Another guest poster – DT (stu – great post!) British F1 Driver, Jenson Button took his ex-Honda car to the top of the time sheets yesterday whilst testing the new Brawn GP BGP 001. The new car showed great speed earlier in the week which was proven when Jenson went over a second quicker than Ferrari man, Massa and 2.5 [...]

After debuting as the Range Rover LRX concept at the Detroit Motor Show last year this new model without a tag as yet id due to be put into production following a 27 million pound government grant assuming production is undertaken at Land Rover’s factory at Halewood, Merseyside. Though total costs will be closer to 400 million if rumours are [...]

Many of you may have already seen this at the detroit motor show earlier in the year but McLaren are sending their SLR line out with a bang with the limited edition Stirling Moss line. Only 75 are planned for production and will only be offered to the most loyal of SLR customers. Though I am sure not everyone’s taste, [...]

Those wacky designers associated with Audi have designed this crazy new concept like something straight out of iRobot. Dubbed the Shark, it is the brainchild of Turkish design protege Kazim Doku, the Audi Shark is a conceptual futuristic four-ringed hovercraft that won Audi’s most recent design competition. The styling takes elements from the R8, TT and S5, and looks thoroughly [...]

You guessed it, a Lamborghini based on insects! The new brainchild of Romanian design student Iulian Bumbu. The Milan-based designer claims the car is a fusion of the Italian carmaker’s current design language and the exoskeletons, or body armour, found on insects. It also has other bug like features such as tightly-wrapped carbon-fibre bodywork, wide-set eyes and winged scissor doors. [...]

Renault have released details fo their Megane Sport RS 250 at the Geneva Motorshow pitting it up against the likes of the new Focus ST and Golf GTI. And you know what? I love it! After the last shocker that was ‘shaking that ass’ this new sleek Megane oozes class. With a two-litre 16-valve turbocharged engine running at 250hp, 5,500rpm [...]

Update Aston ‘s One-77 super-car was on show at this weeks Geneva Motor Show, but it was kind of upstaged by…. a One-77…. With a complete One-77 chassis laid bare for all the world to see. Resplendent in carbon-fibre and cast, forged and extruded aluminum, the skinless One-77 is an engineer’s dream. Original Aston Martin will today officially unveil their [...]

The Geneva Motor Show has already seen the release of the limited edition Bugatti Veyron Bleu Centenaire (the blue one!!)> The surprising this was however that even with the extra price tag, the only change was the styling. However those mad dogs over at tuning house Mansory have revised their own version of the Veyron dubbed the Linea Vincero. There [...]