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  Bugatti Veyron Makes £625,00 at Supercar Auction Today 5 Jun 2010 (News)
  catalogue for the 22k mile 2006/56 Mercedes SL500 388PS 7-speed (the best SL they ever made), that sold about £4,000 under trade book.   (As usual, ‘s’ means sold. ‘p’ means top provisional bid
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  Drivethedeal Full Offers List 20 Dec 2007 (News)
  Mercedes GL500 5dr Tip Auto £51959 Saving £14563 Renault Clio 1.2 16V Expression 3dr £7478 Saving £2722 (pre-reg) Renault Clio 1.2 16V Expression 5dr £7967 Saving £2903 (pre-reg) And in alphabetical order: Audi A4 2.0 TDi TDV S Line
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  06 F430 bids £111k at Auction Today 12 Nov 2007 (News)
  a lot less money on a Mondeo TDCI LX than you will on a Ghia. Here’s the list. As usual, ‘s’ means sold. ‘p’ means top provisional bid, ‘n/s’ means not sold. ‘n/w’ means miles not warranted. ‘MNW’ means unknown mileage
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  More Cheap Cars at Auction Today 9 Jul 2007 (News)
  Not everything, of course. But this 62k mile 04 reg S40 2.0d S looked like a good buy to me at £7,300. A 46k mile 05 V50 2.0d SE estate bid to a much stronger £10,500. A year old 6k mile Fiesta 1.25 Style 5-dr sold for £5,000, which is below the ten-year average
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  Historics 21st September Classic Car Auction Viewing 19 Sep 2019 (News)
  . Lots 251, 252 and 253 are three Minis to go inside the coach. Lot 251 in the photo is a 1989 Austin Mini Cooper S replica that nevertheless has a twin carb engine and looks really good. It and the other two are each estimated at £8,000 to £12,000. Many of the other entries are covered
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  Audi set to confuse the world with strangely illogical name change 23 Aug 2017 (News)
  ). A special place in the line-up is occupied by the high-end, high-performance S and RS models and the Audi R8. They will retain their classic names in reference to their top position in the model range. Audi justifies this with the statement: “As alternative drive technologies become
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  US comedian Jerry Seinfeld to sell 18 cars from his collection 10 Feb 2016 (News)
  Coupe 1994 Porsche 964 Turbo 3.6 S Flachbau 1957 Porsche 356 A Speedster 2012 Porsche 997 GT3 4.0 Cup “Brumos Commemorative Edition” 1958 Porsche 597 Jagdwagen 2011 Porsche 997 Speedster 1989 Porsche 911 Speedster 1966 Porsche
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  Ground effect F1 cars to star at Goodwood 25 Jan 2016 (News)
  . In an era of greater regulatory freedom, F1’s star designers constantly sought to steal a march on the opposition, experimenting with different engine and chassis configurations, outlandish aerodynamics and even extra wheels. Having optimised the new ground effect technology with the Type 78
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  Pedestrians aged 18 to 24 most likely to be distracted by phones 2 Nov 2015 (News)
  with Pedestrian Detection it's available on the new S-MAX, Mondeo and Galaxy.  Research from the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM), shows that 23 per cent of vehicle accidents involving a pedestrian injury in the UK occur when a pedestrian fails to look properly, is careless or reckless
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  From kit to car in just six hours at Regent Street Motor Show 20 Oct 2015 (News)
  . The latter display is backed by two organisations helping to shape our motoring future – Go Ultra Low and Transport for London (TfL). Another star attraction comes mere days after the red carpet premiere of the new James Bond film, Spectre – 007’s Aston Martin DB10 will be on display
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  Bentley Boys set for Silverstone return 6 Jul 2015 (News)
  of the pack are likely to be the big Invicta S-type of Chris and Nick Ball, the Alta Sports of Gareth Burnett and Richard Evans, and Rudi Friedrichs in the Alvis Speed 20 SA in which he has clocked up more than 150,000 miles, including no fewer than three Peking-Paris rallies
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  Legendary Jaguar test driver Norman Dewis awarded OBE 1 Jan 2015 (News)
  saloon, XJ-S and XJ40. But he wasn’t just a development driver. Dewis was also co-driver to Sir Stirling Moss in a C-type in the 1952 Mille Miglia and, in 1953, set a 172.412 mph production car speed record in a modified Jaguar XK 120 on a closed section
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  British classics lead the way at NEC Classic Motor Show auction 16 Nov 2014 (News)
  £220,000. The right-hand drive supercar was formerly owned by the Brunei Royal Family who placed the factory order in 1991. The car has covered just 6000 miles. As a result, the 530bhp Jaguar, capable of 217mph, was subject to frantic bids as potential suitors fought it out for the XJ220’s
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  Private collection to go under the hammer at Barons 5 Aug 2014 (News)
  . Other Jaguars from the Cheeseman collection include a 1972 S3 E-type FHC (£17,500-£20,000), a 1962 Mk2 3.8-litre sports saloon with manual transmission with Laycock de Normanville overdrive (£13,000-£15,000) and a 1970 XJ6 S1 4.2 (£4500-£5500). There is also a 1966 S-type
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  Get set for Goodwood 26 Jun 2014 (News)
  Arrows through to the latest F1 models, while Bentley will be showing off the new GT3-R version of its Continental GT, its 572bhp V8 making it the fastest-accelerating production Bentley of all time. As for Jaguar, the Coventry firm will be exhibiting all-time racing greats like the D-type, XJ-S TWR
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  Ex-24 Hour Cobra tops the lots at Artcurial's Le Mans sale 7 May 2014 (News)
  will be at, and it looks set to top 2012's €8.7m bonanza. The 2014 auction will star a 1964 AC Cobra 289 (above) that returns to La Sarthe exactly 50 years after finishing 18th overall in the Le Mans 24 Hour race, driven in 1964 by gentleman racers Count Jean de Mortemart and Régis Fraissinet
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  Low-mileage cars lead the way at Anglia 9 Apr 2014 (News)
  for a Supercinq without a turbo. At the more conventional end of the market, the biggest seller of the day was a 1985 Rolls Royce Corniche Convertible at £46,200, followed by a 1970 Mercedes-Benz 280SL at £42,500, and a 1967 Jaguar S-type for a very strong £25,725. The 1968 Triumph TR5
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  Geneva Motor Show 2014: All-new Peugeot 108 on the way 4 Mar 2014 (News)
  of using the word Peugeot likes to say a lot - premium. The retention of the 107's steering column-mounted speedmeter continue as before, but new features include a seven-inch touchscreen with a MirrorLink function that allows smartphone users to operate their phone - with the screen becoming a mirror
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  Silverstone Auctions' NEC Classic sale raises £2.7 million 18 Nov 2013 (News)
  a bumper crop of British classics cross the auction block, with bidders fighting it out for a Lister Jaguar XJ-S Le Mans Coupe. After intense bidding, the Lister doubled its pre-sale estimate and sold for £57,500. Other highlights included a 1950 Jaguar XK120 Roadster that sold for £86,825, more
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  Volvo to replace batteries with nano powered body panels 17 Oct 2013 (News)
  and is powerful enough to supply energy to the car’s 12 Volt system and replace the need for a battery to power the S80’s strop/start system. What's more, Volvo believes the complete substitution of an electric car’s existing components with the new material could cut the overall weight