2013 Porsche Cayenne GTS

What is it? The Cayenne may already be one of the most sporting of all SUVs, but,Porsche being Porsche, there’s always room for an even more driver-orientated version, right? The new GTS version of the current Cayenne – driven for the first time on British roads – revives a formula that proved popular in the previous generation, slotting into the line-up between the standard petrol V8 S and the ballistic Turbo models...

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2013 Toyota Avalon becomes first car to offer wireless phone charging

                                  Toyota North America has announced the 2013 Toyota Avalon Limited will be the first vehicle in the world to be available with in-car wireless phone charging capability. The Toyota Avalon’s in-console Qi wireless charging system, available for Qi–enabled mobile phones and devices, is located on a...

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2013 Porsche Cayman release Sport Turismo, Cayman videos

Hanukkah's passed us by. Christmas Eve slipped into Christmas morning and the denouement of Boxing Day. The most pressing decision right now is when one might pull down the lights and dispense with the tree. Your author's been whiling away the time researching 914 brake and suspension upgrades and poring over a recently acquired first edition of Karl Ludwigsen's Excellence Was Expected. The original incarnation of Porsche's definitive history ends with the development of the 928. While the final shape of the company's...

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Toyota GT86 performance and engineering

There’s no overstatement in suggesting that we’ve been waiting years for this car. By that we don’t just mean enduring the interminable period of delays and introductions as journalists before finally getting our hands on a UK-spec Toyota GT86 (although we have had to do just that). We mean ‘we’ in a broader sense, as in the wait that every car enthusiast with modest resources has had to tolerate before a manufacturer summoned up the necessary...

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2013 Volvo V40 review

The Volvo V40’s lineage can be traced back through the 1995 Mitsubishi-related car of the same name, via the DAF-built 440/460 of the late 1980s and the 340/360 cars of the late 1970s, and even as far as the PV51 of 1936 — Volvo’s first attempt at a more affordable but practical car. Its maker’s world-beating reputation for safety is backed up by a number of innovations, such as the safety cage (1944), the three-point seatbelt (1959) and...

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2013 Peugeot 208 review

The 205. The 306. Two reasons, you could argue, to pity Peugeot today and why the 208 has so much to live up to. With hits like that in its back catalogue, is it any wonder that its latest chart entries fail to scale the same giddy heights? Those heights aren’t necessarily defined by sales, but by lasting affection and identity. In other words, by what they mean to enthusiasts.When was the last time that a Peugeot gave you ‘the drive of...

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Lincoln Could Develop Mustang-Based Coupe

Lincoln Could Develop Mustang-Based Coupe We have heard all kind of crazy stuff in the past few months, but this one is by far one of the craziest. It’s no secret that Lincoln is working to bring its fame back, but could the company indeed be planning a rear-wheel-drive sports coupe based on the Ford Mustang platform? Apparently yes, at least according to FordInsideNews, who reports that Lincoln is preparing such a model...

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2013 Mazda CX-5 review

              Mazda CX-5 review Though it may appear to be a fairly conventional new compact crossover SUV in the now well established mould of the Nissan Qashqai, the Mazda CX-5 has a deeper meaning for Mazda. It is intended as a technological boat-rocker, a model which, thus far, best defines the Third Way the manufacturer has been plotting since it announced its long-term ‘Sustainable Zoom-Zoom’...

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