Monthly Archives: April 2012

Audi ultimate wannabe WAG rocket: the RS Q3

April 20, 2012   Sean

Audi has given the RS treatment to its smallest SUV, creating the ultimate junior WAG rocket. It’s fast and that. It’s the first time the RS badge< has been applied to an SUV, in fact – though it comes some time after BMW’s M Division broke this particular taboo by making the X5 M and X6 M. And, of course, AMG has been at it for ages, with its versions of the GL-Class and G-Wagen.In a brilliant fit of corporate management speak, Audi is calling the RS Q3 a “conceptual interpretation”, which uses two long words where “concept” will do.
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MINI Roadster priced at £18,000

April 19, 2012   Sean

MINI has revealed how much the Roadster will cost when it hits the showrooms shortly. It’ll be £18,020 before you’ve even put any stripes on the bonnet. That puts the two-seat convertible, based on the MINI Coupé, squarely against the Mazda MX-5. A base model one of those, with a 1.8 petrol engine, costs £17,990.
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Women’s World Car of the Year; Range Rover Evoque

April 19, 2012   Sean

The Women’s World Car of the Year (WWCOTY) has been announced: the Range Rover Evoque. If you’re wondering what Women’s World Car of the Year is, it was set up in 2009 to create an award specific to “the fastest growing consumer segment in the world and arguably the most influential.” That’s women. They are: safety, value-for-money, aesthetic appearance, storage space, child–friendliness, ease-of-driving, colour, sex appeal and environmental footprint.
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MG shows Icon concept SUV ‘inspired’ by Nissan Juke

April 18, 2012   Sean

We say ‘inspired’, but there’s inspired and then there’s inspired. Thankfully the MG Icon is only a concept sketch at the moment, so there’s plenty of time to avoid a lawsuit from Nissan’s design department.The Icon is presumably designed to show that MG really is on the up – so on the up that it’s thinking about making something as cool as a B-segment SUV.
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CO2 gulf between old and new cars widens

April 18, 2012   Sean

Figures by the SMMT demonstrate that the average new car is now 18 percent more efficient than the average car on the road, showing  just how far car companies have come in the battle to lower emissions.Since the year 2000, new car emissions (as in, the average CO2 emissions of all the cars sold) have fallen by 23%; in 2011, emissions dropped by a significant 4.2% compared to 2010.
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