The BMW 328 race car is 75 years old, believe it or not. To help celebrate this anniversary an amazing update on the original has been produced. The new car is called the BMW 328 Hommage, and it is a stunner. The look is retro but modern carbon fibre material has been used to keep its weight down to 780 kgs, not forgetting that low weight was one of the original design...
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A Chinese Lamborghini enthusiast has taken a beat up Nissan A31 and created a replica of the super exclusive Lamborghini Reventon supercar. Remarkably he did all this with some sheets of metal and a lot of help from three local welders in just twelve days. The whole project cost £8,478, over £900,000 cheaper than the super exclusive Reventon. Asan, a hairdresser from...
If you have been waiting to see what the new Mercedes A Class is all about then you can thank the European Patent Office and a French car website for spilling les haricots. We saw the concept A-Class last month. The leaked pictures which got out of the patent office and onto the internet have given us a sneaky chance to appreciate the car well before its first scheduled...
UK carmaker Jaguar has announced that it will put the C-X75 electric powered supercar concept into full scale production; the British firm says that it will cost £700,000 (roughly $1.1 million). It isn’t cheap but will be very exclusive as they only plan to create a limited run of 250 cars. The C-X75 will accelerate from 0-60 miles per hour in sub 3 seconds and carry...
An interesting change to how Formula One cars run is on the cards. From the 2013 season the FIA governing body is going to bring in a new hybrid system. Adam Parr is the boss of the Williams team and he says that this will allow the drivers so switch onto electric power for their time in the pits. Some crucial figures in F1 such as Bernie Eccleston and the head of Ferrari...
Audi have been rolling out a number of fantastic looking concept cars of late, the latest is the Audi E-Tron A3 which is based on the saloon Audi is expected to roll out when they refresh their range. The exterior of the car looks mighty impressive although the best tricks are kept for the cockpit of the car. Audi have installed a whole host of tech including a pretty...
Volkswagen has just taken the wraps off of their brand new Beetle which will be aimed at both men and women, a trait which the current car is not as the majority of men don’t enjoy driving around in car with a flower on the dashboard. The original Beetle was first introduced in 1949 remaining largely unchanged before being discontinued in 1979 in European markets with...
The Mercedes A class has enjoyed wild success since its inception way back in 1997, since then the baby Merc has undergone various facelifts and refreshes which has kept its spirit alive despite being a little dowdy and dare we say ‘ugly’. Well it looks like a change of the guard could see the A Class transformed into a high tech hot hatch, oh and did we mention it...
There are few things as exciting as a lawsuit between famous companies and one which might blow up sometime soon is between Tesla Motors and everyone’s favourite car show, Top Gear. The gist of the problem is that Tesla says that the BBC programme gave incorrect information about the Roadster car and even made up claims of a brakes failure. The show was aired in 2008...
The intelligent car looks like being one of the biggest products of the next couple of years. We are already seeing models come out with lots of features which only a couple of years ago would have seemed ludicrously futuristic. For example, we have already seen car systems like the Toyota Entune service presented this year. It includes things like a voice control process...