Motor show news and reports

If any stand at London's Excel exhibition centre lays claim to being the least in tune with the zeitgeist, Hummer's must be up there. GM's military spec brand has only sold 128 cars in the UK so far...

Mercedes were one of the few premium brands to bother making an appearance at the 2008 London motor show and, although there were no whizz-bang world debuts, there was a reminder of just how busy the...

A quiet show for Saab, but then this is a brand with which waiting has become synonymous. What’s new on Saab's London motor show stand? They’ve both been at other motor shows around the globe, but...

It's the British motor show – so we were banking on Subaru pulling off some outrageous Impreza versions. Sure enough, the UK importer didn't disappoint, with a (quite literally, we suspect) handful of...

Nissan pulled off a cornucopia of intriguing new models at the London show – with some pretty weird extremes, as practical family cars jostled for attention with supercars and tallboy square city...

Mazda's not a company afraid of striking out on a limb every now and then. And it rammed home its rotary-engined know-how with a brace of sports cars featuring its Wankel motor at the London show.

With the Paris motor show coming up in October 2008, it’s a surprise Renault had anything of interest to offer show-goers at this week's London exhibition. But Renault UK had other ideas... What’s...

On video: Vauxhall at the London motor expo, 2008

The Merc CLC at the London expo. Ben Barry reports on video

SUNDAY, DAY 3: LIVE NEWS FROM THE GOODWOOD FESTIVAL OF SPEED. The 2008 Goodwood Festival of Speed rounded off with an epic Sunday with a jaw-dropping procession of supercars, historic race cars, an...

Click here for CAR's full guide to the 2008 Goodwood Festival of Speed. Read our latest blogs, galleries, news – and even weather reports – live from Lord March's driveway. We're having daily updates...

The FIA has announced that from 2010 the British GP will move to Donington Park. It’s a return to the East Midlands circuit after 17 years, which last hosted the Grand Prix of Europe in 1993. To bring...

There will be three British drivers on next weekend’s Silverstone grid. Between them – Lewis Hamilton, Jenson Button and David Coulthard – they’ve scored 20 GP victories and taken a total of 912 World...

CAR Online's Grand Prix reporter Tom Clarkson presents his guide to how each of the cars will perform at the British Grand Prix. First up, the Ferrari F2008... FERRARI F2008 The class of the field at...

CAR Online's Grand Prix reporter Tom Clarkson rates the chances of each of the 20 drivers who will race in the British Grand Prix. First up, the 'Ice Man'... KIMI RAIKKONEN From seven starts at...

The Goodwood Festival of Speed is a heart-stoppingly special event. I remember my first back in the late 1990s: marvelling at the splendour of Goodwood House; impressed that you could walk up so close...

What: The Goodwood Festival of Speed. When: 11-13 July 2008. Where: Goodwood, near Chichester, West Sussex, PO18 0PX. Sample prices: £30 a day on Friday, £47 a day on Saturday and Sunday. Please note,...

The 2008 Goodwood Festival of Speed is rammed with interesting cars – old and new. There are more than 350 vehicles entered at this year’s festival and we’ve picked the highlights to help guide you to...

What: The 2008 F1 Santander British Grand Prix. Think we’ll stick with the good, old British Grand Prix name, thank you. Life’s too short… When: Friday 4 – Sunday 6 July 2008. Where: Silverstone,...

What: British International Motor Show. (That’s the long name. We’ll just call it the London motor show, because that’s what we do at CAR). When: 23 July – 3 August 2008. Where: Excel, London E16...

No show, no blogs… yet! Come back to CAR Online after 22 July 2008 for the best insight from CAR’s award-winning editorial team. We’ll be prowling the show stands to dig out the stories that matter –...

The countdown is on to the London motor show 2008. Who will be thereAlfa RomeoBentleyBrabusChevroletCitroenCorvetteFordHondaHummerHyundaiIsuzuJaguarKiaLand...

The ginger motormouth is a well known fan of scarlet sports cars, but even we were surprised when UK broadcaster Chris Evans splashed out £5 million on an immaculate 1961 Ferrari 250 GT SWB California...

The new Roewe 550 unveiled at Beijing this week is Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation’s promising new mid-range hatch, but could yet turn into the next MG saloon - and be built in Europe.

Only a fool wandering around this week's Beijing motor show would still dismiss China as some also-ran automotive market full of rip-off designs and outdated ‘new’ cars based on old Western designs.

Feedback on the forthcoming Mercedes GLK has been mixed to say the least. The final production version at the Beijing motor show is – as predicted – little changed and still ugly, especially in the...

Why would such a quintessentially American brand like Buick unveil its cars in China first? Simple economics: China overtook the USA as Buick’s number one market over a year ago, allegedly on the back...

How does the new Audi Q5 stack up in the metal? CAR Online is reporting from the Beijing motor show - and we pored over the newcomer and met its designers at a preview night. The Q5 looks refreshingly...