Alpine's first sports car will be the brand's 911, says designer
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The first new-generation Alpine sports car due in 2016 will be to the reborn French performance brand what the 911 is to Porsche, according to its designer.
The man responsible for developing Alpine’s 21
century design language, Renault corporate design senior vice president Laurens van den Acker, said he has looked to the past for inspiration for its cars of the future.
The poor man's Mini Cooper - the all-new Mini One - has been revealed.
The Mini One kicks off the new Mini range in Europe with more subdued styling, less chrome trimming to the extrerior, 15-inch steel wheels and downsized, lower-output engines. There has never been a Mini One sold here, but the BMW-owned brand has sold the cut-price Mini Ray variant in limited numbers since April 2011.
The rollout of more hydrogen fuel cell cars is being held back by a lack of refuelling infrastructure, according to Hyundai Europe president and chief operating officer Allan Rushforth.
Rushforth said the Hyundai ix35 Fuel Cell – which he claims is the only hydrogen fuel cell car currently commercially available in the world – is limited in its application due to a slow rollout of refuelling points.
A new sub-compact Mazda CX-3 SUV has already been penned and appears very close to making its debut.
CarAdvice exclusively reported the Japanese brand’s plans for a new baby SUV to sit below the CX-5 in 2012, but it appears the new model could be closer than first anticipated.
The company hasn’t confirmed it will build a CX-3 model to rival the likes of the Holden Trax, Peugeot 2008, Ford EcoSport and Nissan Juke, according to Mazda Australia public relations manager, Steve Maciver.
Alfa Romeo needs to remain a solely Italian brand as it seeks to relaunch itself for the next phase of the Italian brand’s existence, the company’s boss says.
Speaking to the media at yesterday’s Geneva motor show, Sergio Marchionne, the boss of Fiat Chrysler, confirmed that Alfa Romeo will not build cars outside of Italy as it seeks to reinvent itself as well as learn from and be inspired by its own rich history.
