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- Lexus LS600h v Ken Livingstone
We’ve been having a look and a play this weekend with the Lexus LS600h - the new hybrid top-end Lexus - which is now available on a forecourt near you (or - much easier - by getting in touch with us!).
I’ve long admired Lexus. They make a fine car; in many ways they’ve inherited the [...]
Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:32:33 +0000
- It’s a Lamborghini thing
Well, the post on Tuesday on Hugh’s scoop with the Lamborghini Reventon certainly made things a bit lively round here. The website went berserk, and we had some very serious calls on the car. But it got me thinking. I’m not likely to get my hands on the Reventon when it’s ready (I’m pretty sure [...]
Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:01:15 +0000
- Lamborghini Reventon
We made a decision when we decided to have a blog at Innovation Cars that it wasn’t going to be an advert dressed up as a blog. We wanted it to be news from a petrol-head’s point of view, and an excuse to moan about things that get up our noses! And on the whole [...]
Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:20:36 +0000
- The Everton Lads love their Lamborghinis and Q7s
Have you got a Lamborghini for sale? It’s a common cry from the Everton FC lads! They do love their motors. But that’s closely followed by a request for a Ferrari, an Audi Q7, a Mercedes AMG, a…..!
As you probably know, we started out providing cars for professional footballers, and that’s still an important part [...]
Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:03:04 +0000
- Rolls Royce Drophead Coupe - Ship Ahoy!
We get umpteen calls and emails every day (and I do mean every day - weekends, bank holidays, the lot. The petrol-head never sleeps!) from people looking for their perfect car. But one call recently made me sit up and take notice when I saw the call logs. A nice chap (because that’s what it [...]
Sun, 30 Sep 2007 23:08:19 +0000
- Don’t do anything - Just Drive!
That learners bible - the Highway Code - has just been revised, and guess what? It’s full of extra rules and ‘guidelines’ for drivers. Why? What’s the point? There are already ample laws to cover all eventualities of careless and dangerous driving, but this government seems hell-bent on issuing more and more dictats to cover [...]
Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:43:03 +0000
- Porsche 911 GT2 - Oh, my!
Yes, it’s another 911, this time the remarkable Porsche 911 GT2.
Following close on the heels of Ferrari with the F430 Scuderia comes Porsche with the 911 GT2, a car very much in the same vein - a road-legal track version of an already unbelievable piece of machinery.
I have always struggled with the Ferrari/Porsche dilemma. On [...]
Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:56:37 +0000
- Ferrari F430 Scuderia - what a star!
A new model from Ferrari is always an event, even more so when it’s launched by Michael Shumacher, which is exactly what happened at the Frankfurt Motor Show last week. And who was the biggest star? The car - by far!
The Ferrari F430 Scuderia is the long anticipated replacement for the 360 Challenge Stradale, that [...]
Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:24:03 +0000
- Speed doesn’t kill. Inappropriate speed does.
We’ve all seen the headlines in the papers in the last few days about the guy doing 172mph in a ‘borrowed’ Porsche, and I’m sure the court had all the relevant information to conclude a sentence of 10 weeks and a 3 year ban was appropriate. But I have to say, there does seem to [...]
Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:07:51 +0000
- Come on Kids - Let’s play with the Audi Q7
Fun though it is to throw test cars round a track (and I can’t deny it has been known!), we do do try to use cars in the way a real owner would when we have a test car to run with. And so it was with the Audi Q7 4.2 fsi.
Audi have resisted entering [...]
Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:30:32 +0000