To old men like me (!), Lotus evokes fond memories of childhood. Jim Clark racing in a Lotus F1 car; Emma Peel driving around the country roads of the home counties in her Lotus Elan; Colin Chapman working his magic on a miniscule budget. The Elan, The Europa, The Elite, and even ‘The Prisoner’ in [...]

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We’ve been asked for more than eighteen months “Is the Porsche Panamera for sale yet?”, and the answer has always been “No, but it shouldn’t be long”. Well it has been ‘long’ and it still isn’t here, but at least there’s some positive news on the horizon.
Autobild in Germany have told us that the prices [...]

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So, is the Jaguar XFR for sale now? No, but it’s getting close!
Back in August last year I wrote a piece about the new Jaguar XF hoping, really hoping, that this was the car that would save Jaguar. And despite its ‘Japanese’ looks it’s stacking up to be a very good car indeed. Modern, fast, [...]

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So, the Mercedes SL65 AMG Black Series is for sale from the end of 2008! We’ve been seeing spy shots of it for quite some time but now, finally, Mercedes have revealed the car.
Based, obviously, on the face-lifted SL, the SL65 Black Series shares very little with its lesser siblings, not least the performance. This [...]

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As anyone who has read here before knows, I am a big Bentley fan. Even more so since Volkswagen acquired Bentley, as the marque has found its identity again. Sure, there are detractors who say the new Bentleys are just Phaetons in drag, but they miss the point. Bentleys are all about the soul. And [...]

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When we first saw the pictures of the current BMW 7 series for sale we had to conclude the designer had lost his way half way through. But he hadn’t (apparantly), because the ‘afterthought’ boot found its way on to other BMWs. It certainly helped the aerodynamics, but it didn’t help the aesthetics one bit! [...]

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