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Brooke Double R (2006) CAR review

Brooke Double R (2006) CAR review

Rated 2 out of 52

Angus Fitton, 19 December 2006 08:50

The Brooke looks familiar It’s similar in style to Gordon Murray’s bike-engined Rocket from 1992, but the Brooke adopts a more conventional seating layout – two abreast, not one behind the other – and the engine is the 260bhp Cosworth four used in the Caterham CSR. What’s underneath? Not a lot. The Brooke weighs just 550kg, or 310kg less than ...

Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione coupe (2006) first offiical pictures

Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione coupe (2006) first offiical pictures

Rated 2 out of 52

Angus Fitton, 12 September 2006 04:49

The lowdown This gorgeous creation is the new Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione. It looks familiar because it's the production version of the 2003 concept car which bore the same name. Alfa has confirmed that the 450bhp V8 coupe will go on sale in September next year. In a tactic borrowed from Ferrari, production will be limited. Insiders hint that as ...

Vauxhall Corsa VXR (2007)

Vauxhall Corsa VXR (2007)

Rated 0 out of 50

Angus Fitton, 06 September 2006 07:00

The lowdown Vauxhall's Corsa VXR is hot-lapping the Nurburgring virtually undisguised, as the clock ticks down to its spring 2007 launch. For the first time, the beefy bodykit and massive 18-inch wheels hiding pumped up brake discs and callipers are visible. Underneath the bonnet is a turbocharged 1.6-litre engine developing a class-topping 200bhp, mated to a a close ratio six-speed ...

Suzuki Swift Sport (2006) CAR review

Suzuki Swift Sport (2006) CAR review

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Angus Fitton, 05 September 2006 09:00

Suzuki Swift Sport? Sounds like a horrible special edition to me... The name may suggest graphic-laden dealer special, but this is a genuine junior hot hatch. The Swift Sport is a thoroughly sorted, stiffened, lowered, meaner looking and gruffer-sounding distant relative to the standard car. Above the 17-inch wheels and bodykit are stiffened Monroe dampers coupled with uprated springs, along ...

Cadillac SRX (2006) CAR review

Cadillac SRX (2006) CAR review

Rated 3 out of 53

Angus Fitton, 25 August 2006 03:30

Hmmm, this looks like the dictionary definition of a Yank tank... The SRX is nearly as long as a Range Rover and weighs well over two tonnes, so it's hardly compact. But you ain't seen nothing yet. Compared with its obese brother, the Escalade ESV (2696kg and 5.6metres long), the SRX might seem a bit on the diminutive side. It's ...

Vauxhall's 200bhp Corsa leads VXR onslaught

Vauxhall's 200bhp Corsa leads VXR onslaught

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Angus Fitton, 23 August 2006 09:50

Vauxhall is in the final stages of signing off the storming Corsa VXR. The latest VXR runs a turbocharged 1.6-litre developing a thumping 200bhp, spinning the front wheels via a six-speed box. Much of the development work has been carried out at the Nurburgring, which the Corsa has been relentlessly lapping to fine tune the suspension and engine mapping. With ...

Vauxhall Corsa 1.4 (2006) CAR review

Vauxhall Corsa 1.4 (2006) CAR review

Rated 2.5 out of 52.5

Angus Fitton, 21 August 2006 00:01

Give me the lowdown This is the all-new Corsa, a car Vauxhall vows will banish the Corsa's traditional reputation of being pretty but underwhelming. It's longer and wider than today's car and weighs a little more, but some models cost a little less and in 200bhp, turbocharged VXR trim it will be the fastest Corsa ever. The Corsa has a ...

Hot turbo engines for BMW's 3-Series

Hot turbo engines for BMW's 3-Series

Rated 3 out of 53

Angus Fitton, 11 August 2006 10:36

Three new six-cylinder engines are joining the BMW 3-Series range. Top of the pile – until the V8 M3 arrives – is the 335d, which runs the twin-turbo 3.0-litre diesel engine offered in the 5-series. An explosive 428lb ft of torque (that's more than the V10 M5) and 286bhp means it can surge to 62mph in only 6.2sec. But there's economy ...

Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder (2006) CAR review

Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder (2006) CAR review

Rated 2.5 out of 52.5

Angus Fitton, 08 August 2006 01:54

Gallardo Spyder in the UK? Does that mean leaky roof and just too damn unwieldy for our streets... You're way off target. A lot of cars simply don't translate to the UK. You drive them on (smooth, sunny) foreign roads and they make perfect sense, only to fail spectacularly when they arrive on our not so sunny and not very ...

Honda Civic Type-R (2007)

Honda Civic Type-R (2007)

Rated 4 out of 54

Angus Fitton, 07 August 2006 10:06

The lowdown Hot Hondas are in the pipeline. The Civic Type-R prototype has arrived at the Nürburgring for final chassis tuning, while Honda has gone public with the three-door bodyshell which the Type-R will adopt. It was revealed as the Type-S, a diet Type-R, at the London motor show. The ultimate Civic will run a revised version of the 197bhp ...

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