Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service have restored back to its original condition a vehicle from its historical fleet, a Dennis F7 Pump Escape Fire Appliance. Continue Reading »
56 Year Old Fire Engine Restored to Former Glory

 

This Rolls-Royce was created by the skilled craftsmen at P & A Wood (UK). Round headlamps give it a similar front to Bentleys Arnage, but were not complaining because it looks great! Unfortunately we couldn’t find any information regarding this Rolls or P & A Wood other than the photo and small clips of information on just a few websites. If we find out more we’ll let you know.

Source: Autoblog.nl

From an initial entry list of twenty-eight (28) new vehicles from all over the world, a short list of ten finalists for the third annual World Car of the Year (WCOTY) awards were announced by the international accounting firm KPMG. The winners of the 2007 WCOTY will be unveiled during Press Preview at the upcoming New York International Auto Show (NYIAS) on Thursday, April 5, 2007. Continue Reading »
World Car of the Year and Performance Car of the Year finalists

 

A Las Vegas Celebrity couldn’t wait for the 2010 Rolls-Royce Phantom so they decided to build their own. What you see here is the Rolls-Royce ‘Centurion’, a custom designed Rolls that is based on a 2004 Phantom. A complete rebody was required to give it that ‘2010′ look. Its up for sale on Ebay with current bids at $224,000 and some from as far away as Dubai. Jump over to Ebay for more.

Source: Autoblog.nl

 

A small British engineering company has launched a new axle differential locking system and a range of driveline componentry upgrade products, designed to improve the traction, mobility and off-road performance of 4×4 vehicles. Continue Reading »
British company goes off-road to success!

 

Rallycross will celebrate its 40th birthday when the first round of the 2007 MSA British Rallycross Championship takes place at Lydden on Easter Monday (April 9) in the Tonhire.com 40th Anniversary Rallycross. Continue Reading »
MSA British Rallycross Championship

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Here is an official promo film for the Aston Martin V8 Vantage. The video includes behind the scenes footage of hot and cold weather testing and some track time at the Nurburgring with Chris Porritt, Aston Martin vehicle engineer and manager with famous Ring expert Sabine Schmitz riding shotgun. The video is about 8 minutes long.

 

Automotive pioneer ZAP today announced plans to display Lotus Engineering’s advanced APX concept car at the North American Dealers Association (NADA) annual meeting and exhibition, February 3 to 6, 2007, confirming their choice to move ahead using Lotus’ revolutionary platform and body structure design as the basis for the development of the high performance electric ZAP-X. Continue Reading »
Zap and Lotus to develop electric 4×4!

 

Nanjing Automobile (Group) Corporation (NAC), the Chinese automaker which purchased certain assets of the former MG Rover Group, has announced that production of MG cars is to resume at the Longbridge plant in the West Midlands, UK, nearly two years since the last car rolled off the line at the facility. Continue Reading »
MG cars to resume production at Longbridge

http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=5368101000312601275

Over 500 Lotus sports car owners arrived at the Brands Hatch race track yesterday to set a new world record for “Largest Parade of Lotus Cars” and a new world record for longest parade of any one type of car. Rules for smashing the old record required that over 249 cars travel two miles in succession. Lotus cars ranging from 1960s classics to present day Elises and Exiges showed up, but only 313 were aloud to participate due to limited space on the track. Watch this Google video from the even.