Toyota GT 86 UK Prices Announced - Comparison Time!

2012 Toyota GT 86So the UK prices for the Toyota GT 86 have been announced at last. Here's how it compares to a few of the other sporty ~200 horsepower cars out there (before optional extras):RWD Mercedes-Benz SLK 250* BlueEfficiency (6MT) = £33,390 FWD Audi TT Black Edition 2.0 TFSI (6MT) = £30,380 RWD BMW 125i M-Sport Coupé (6MT) = £27,380 FWD Volkswagen Golf GTI (6MT) = £25,330 RWD Toyota GT 86 (6MT) = £24,995 FWD Volkswagen Scirocco 2.0...

Read More

Video Saturday - Harris Vs Needell

Uploaded: 28/3/12Running Time: 11:56Views When Posted: 42,915Uploaded: 27/3/12Running Time: 5:52Views When Posted: 118,631I have previously mentioned that I enjoy Chris Harris's videos for the Drive Channel on YouTube, because he's being completely honest and is clearly very enthusiastic about what he's doing. I even thought for a moment that he could present TopGear, except that really there's no room for actual motoring journalism in that show anymore.Tiff Needell, however, has presented TopGear (1987-2001), which was in no way his only noteworthy...

Read More

Hey, Wokingham Drivers! You're All Stupid For Panic-Buying Fuel!

Shell filling station, Wokingham. It wasn't long ago the top number said 115.9 instead of 140.9...I just went for a walk and the local petrol station had a queue backing out onto the main road. All because there might be a fuel strike, which can only be done with seven days' notice, which hasn't even been given yet! This is all because of the government saying it could happen. It's just idiotic...I'm a proud car fan and driving enthusiast, who commutes...

Read More

Why The F*ck Is The 7 On GT5's Lap Counter Off-Centre?

(Based on this rant from Gizmodo's own personal Jesus)This is freaking me out today. You see, I hardly look at my lap number during Gran Turismo 5's LM24. But today I did. I looked at that pixel-perfect, beautiful TV screen and this problem got instantly into my eye, like a white hot scalpel pinching through my retina until it reached the back of my skull.See what I mean? Can you see IT? The 7 is off centre. Instead of being optically centered,...

Read More

Video Sunday - When Ferrari Used To Win

Uploaded: 23/3/12Running Time: 5:36Views When Posted: 3,862So Ferrari don't appear to be doing very well this season so far. Hopefully the Scuderia can get their act together, although I am enjoying McLaren beating Red Bull. At any rate, Ferrari run a programme called Corse Clienti, where the obscenely rich people who can buy old Formula 1 cars get to run them, with support from Ferrari technicians, a bit like the XX program where you spend a million quid and get to use your car at track sessions every now and again. Thankfully, Dutch YouTube supercar...

Read More

Hey Tuners, Leave The McLaren MP4-12C Alone!

McLaren MP4-12C vs Mansory MP4-12C. Not an improvementAt the Geneva Motor Show, highlights of which you can find three posts down, no less than four tuning companies turned up with a modded McLaren MP4-12C paraded like a carnival freak on their show stand, and they're not even the only ones at it either - two other tuning companies (including Hennessey) have or are planning to attempt to turn an exceptionally talented supercar and the first mid-engined...

Read More

Video Friday - Ferrari SP12 Leaving The Morning After

Uploaded: 22/3/12Running Time: 1:46Views When Posted: 7,589So yesterday I reported on the special one-off homage to the Ferrari 512BB that Ferrari's Special Projects division made for Eric Clapton (scroll down to read about it and see more pictures). According to the video title - which was uploaded by popular British supercar YouTuber Shmee150 but not filmed by him, he says - the SP12 is worth £3million. Where that number came from, I don't know, but still, when every inch of the car has been personalised and finished to the very highest quality...

Read More

Eric Clapton's Ferrari SP12 Is A Modern 512BB Without The 12

If you're super-mega-rich, and if Ferrari really like you, then you can go over there and ask them to build the car of your dreams. Music legend and massive Ferrari fan Eric Clapton happens to be super-mega-rich, so he did just that and asked them to make a special version of the 458 Italia that pays homage to the 512BB of the 1970s with retro touches, two-tone paint and Enzo headlights. One word - YUMMY.After a launch event at snazzy prestige car...

Read More

2012 Geneva Motor Show - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly and The Mildly Interesting

Carrozeria Touring Superleggera Disco Volante 2012. Inspiration in backgroundSo the Geneva motor show has now come and gone, and with it, about 95 cars of varying importance have been unveiled or shown off under the lights for the first time in Europe. Obviously I'm not going to tell you about all of them, but because there are quite so many, here's a selection of the the cars worth caring about - IMO - categorised under the headers mentioned in...

Read More