Once upon a time Jaguar made a mid-size car. It was called the X-Type and it was crap. It wasn’t crap because it was based on the Ford Mondeo – which it was – and neither was it crap because it was FWD – which it also was, although 4WD models were available – rather […]
Tag: Turbo
Quite how AMG manages to get a blistering 265kW out of a 2.0-litre, four-cylinder petrol engine without it exploding into shrapnel after about ten minutes is staggering. How the also get it to be not only useable, but also relatively docile and tractable around town has, quite frankly, got us buggered. Needless to say, however, […]
The BMW 1 Series has always been a fantastic little car. Okay, so the first generation was a bit crook looking, but facelifts (or “Life Cycle Impulses” in BMW-speak) and an all-new second generation car have taken care of the worst visual offences. But if you want a small five-door hatch with fantastic RWD handling characteristics, […]
It’s an XCAR double feature today! Okay, mainly because we forgot to post the Defender one last week, but, hey – more XCAR is always good! And this is a good one – more than 50 years after the Ford GT40 exploded onto the motorsport scene, Ford is returning to Le Mans with the all-new […]
We are at the Further With Ford trend conference in California and today we got a chance to get up close and personal with the incredible new Ford GT at the company’s Research and Innovation Centre in Palo Alto! We weren’t allowed inside the GT, but we did get a bunch of pics and even a […]
There’s finally a new Civic Type R in town (well, in Europe, at least…) but, XCAR asks, is it just too powerful for the road?
Take a fat, steaming pile of marketing bollocks, a Ferrari California T and a clever artist with a few buckets of UV paint and mix everything up in a wind tunnel, and what do you get? Well… this really. Ferrari USA were concerned that not enough people considered the California T a “work of art” (most likely because it isn’t…) […]
Back in the ‘70s and ‘80s, when they first appeared, the recipe for a Hot Hatch was fairly simple – take the smallest car in your range and stuff the biggest engine you can make fit into it. That was all you needed, and in most cases it worked well. In others, not so much, […]
Now, I must admit that I am something of a fan of the BMW 4 Series Gran Coupe, despite its silly name, but even I seriously doubt that something like this ever happened: Customer: “Excuse me Salesman, do you have something like this [points to 3 Series sedan] but a bit lower and sportier?” Salesman: “Ah, […]
Okay, here it is – our latest Photo Gallery Road Test, this time of the Subaru WRX STi! Which may be slightly confusing because our last one was of a Subaru WRX… Actually, this one is of the hotter, nastier (in a good way) WRX STi, but there is still room for confusion. So why have […]
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