By 3am on Saturday morning Lotus Racing had finally finished packing up the six airfreight boxes needed for the journey to Bahrain and the beginning of the 2010 Formula One™ season. Two cars and a 60-strong team have now made their way to the Kingdom of Bahrain and the Bahrain International Circuit for the first [...]
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The Ultimate Gentleman’s Drive?
It’s called the GQbyCitroen. And it’s what you get when you combine a top men’s lifestyle magazine with one of Europe’s best-known automakers.
Built to exemplify “the ultimate gentleman’s drive,” the concept incorporates many design traits first seen on the automaker’s futuristic GTbyCitroen show car. Its wide mouth and chiseled lines give it a performance attitude, [...]
CNN Makes Its Formula One™ Debut With Lotus Racing
Lotus Racing and CNN International have today announced a partnership deal that sees the newest Formula One™ team entering into a long-term agreement with the world’s leading news network. CNN’s world famous logos will feature on the T127 race cars, the drivers’ overalls and on all team clothing. The deal [...]
Proton Showcases EMAS Concept Car Series At Geneva Motorshow
Malaysian car manufacturer PROTON today unveiled a series of concept global cars at the prestigious 80th International Geneva Motor Show. The three concept global cars – EMAS, EMAS Country and EMAS3 which is certainly an optimistic signal that PROTON’s long-term plan is to expand its footprint in the global automotive market.
EMAS – which [...]
Lotus Evora 414E Hybrid Concept At Geneva 2010
The Lotus Evora 414E concept car will debut officially at the Geneva auto show next week, and is claimed to reach 100 km/h in less than four seconds and travel over 482 kilometers. As for how it’ll look, imagine a standard Evora slathered in copper: The chassis remains unchanged from 2+2, thanks to the flexibility [...]
Honda to Show All-Electric 3R-C At 2010 Geneva
At this year’s Geneva show, Honda will reveal an interesting looking concept vehicle called the 3R-C.
The 3R-C was designed and developed solely by the company’s European studio, based in Milan, Italy. Billed as a “minimal urban transport vehicle,” it’s hard to call the 3R-C a concept car, as the one-passenger, three-wheeled design study blurs [...]
Maserati’s Awards Edition Quattroporte Sport GT S At Geneva Show
Maserati claims 56 awards from various publications have been given to the Quattroporte. That gave Maserati 56 reasons to warrant a special edition called the “Awards Edition” Quattroporte Sport GT S for the Geneva motor show next week. Added to it are unique exterior and interior upgrades. Output remains at 433 horsepower and 361 pound-feet of [...]
Citroen DS3 Racing At Geneva
Citroen has celebrated numerous victories in the World Rally Championship including five manufacturer’s titles and six driver’s titles. Now Citroen Racing, the company behind all those winning rally cars, has built a car for the street, the Citroen DS3 Racing.
As the Citroen DS3 Racing is being built by the same people that build Citroen WRC [...]
Volkswagen Reveals New CrossPolo Mini Crossover Ahead of Geneva
Volkswagen has revealed that the new CrossPolo will debut in Switzerland. Although billed as a crossover, the CrossPolo is essentially a lifted Polo hatchback, blessed with extra ground clearance and some rugged styling. Black body cladding was added to the car’s lower portions, highlighted by silver accents on the front and rear fascia that are [...]
Kovalainen crashes the Lotus T127 in Jerez
Williams driver Rubens Barrichello was fastest in official Formula One testing yesterday while Heikki Kovalainen crashed the new Lotus on its second day back on the track.Heikki Kovalainen’s crash on his debut test for Lotus, which forced the team to stop running. Kovalainen lost control and went head-on into the tyre barrier, knocking the front [...]