Daily Archives: June 18, 2012

Facelift for Kia Sorento

June 18, 2012   simon   No comments

A facelifted Kia Sorento will arrive in the UK in the autumn.The revised model receives a re-engineered bodyshell, revised styling front and rear, plus reduced fuel consumption and CO2 emissions.
The styling features new headlamps with LED highlights, a new tailgate with LED rear combination lamps, new bumpers (front and rear) and the option of 19-inch alloys.
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Saab 9-3 nearly new – £13,599

June 18, 2012   simon   No comments

The news that Saab is to be saved (or maybe not) by a multinational consortium, has been celebrated by Motorpoint, which has 2011 9-3 models in stock. The 9-3 1.9 TTiD 160 Turbo Edition Estates are available from £13,599 – which compares to a list price of £24,120 when the car was last on sale. The cars have around 13,000 miles on the clock. That means they have suffered a theoretical depreciation of almost £1 per mile, although nobody was actually paying list price for Saabs last year.At around the price of the most basic pre-registered Focus estate, the Saab 9-3 estate might be worth a look.
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Audi wins again at Le Mans as Toyota wins respect

June 18, 2012   simon   No comments

Audi have won the 80th Le Mans 24 Hours, claiming their 11th victory in 13 years and taking a clean sweep of the podium.Andre Lotterer took the chequered flag in the #1 Audi R18 e-tron quattro to win his and his co-drivers’, Benoit Treluyer and Marcel Fassler, second successive Le Mans. Their diesel hybrid car finished the race one lap ahead of the #2 car of Allan McNish, Tom Kristensen and Rinaldo Capello with the traditional diesel R18 Ultra of Mike Rockenfeller, Oliver Jarvis and Marco Bonanomi third.Unlike last year which ended with one of the closest finsihes in Le Mans history, the 2012 edition was a typical endurance race, a war of attrition where reliability and accidents played their parts as much as outright speed. As we’re in the middle of Euro 2012 it seems appropriate to say that the Le Mans 24 Hours was also a race of two halves.
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