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Mercedes-AMG, stashed away in tiny Affalterbach, Germany, not far from Stuttgart, has been building fast street cars and winning racecars for more than 35 years, first as an independent tuner of Mercedes-Benz cars, then as a partner company and now as a wholly owned subsidiary of Mercedes-Benz. AMG predates BMW’s M, Audi’s S, Jaguar’s R, Toyota’s TRD and Nissan’s Nismo, all of the in-house tuners, by decades, and sells in higher volumes than any other tuner arm, to the tune of 20,000 cars and trucks last year alone. Read the rest of this entry »

Big families, small businesses and anyone with lots of friends can rejoice - at last there is a classy way to carry eight people and luggage in a car that costs less than £20,000.

All new eight-seater with space for luggage too

New 170PS, 2.5-litre turbodiesel and rear-wheel-drive

On sale 20th June priced at £19,495 Read the rest of this entry »

There’s a new addition to the Chevrolet Lacetti line-up, and it brings with it better performance, stylish good looks and incomparable value for money.

New range-topping Lacetti Sport introduced

121PS 1.8-litre petrol engine Read the rest of this entry »

A new Sport Pack option is being introduced on the popular 4007 SUV to enhance the ‘entry model’ SE for customers wanting an enhanced presence on the roads.

Sport Pack enhances distinctive 4007 SE Read the rest of this entry »

There are only a handful of cars that can strike fear into the Bugatti Veyron. The Koenigsegg CCX comes close with a top speed of 242.42 mph, and the SSC Aero Twin-Turbo is even faster, hitting a two-way average speed of 255.83 mph and officially taking the crown of world’s fastest car back in September. Read the rest of this entry »

Meet the Biante, Mazda’s new Japan-only 8-passenger minivan. The funky oversized headlamps, expansive greenhouse, and stylish frenched taillamps are the work of Iwao Koizumi, designer of the original Atenza (Mazda6 outside Japan) and CX-7. Read the rest of this entry »