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Everything you need to know about cars this week: 13 Jan '19
A brand new Lambo, plus all the important news from CES. It's this week in cars
Rolls-Royce is building a 300mph+ electric plane
"The not-the-cars bit of Rolls-Royce has clearly gotten 2019 off to a, ahem, flying start. It has announced a rather ambitious plan that entails building an all-electric plane and sending it to over 300mph."
Advertisement - Page continues belowThis is the new Lamborghini Huracán Evo
"Got your heart set on the facelifted Audi R8, have you? Hold fire. Its Italian cousin has also visited the Angular Bodywork Ltd. Factory, and emerged approximately twenty-three per cent more angry-looking than before. Check out those spindly front aero blades and colour contrast diffuser. These tell you you’re looking at the new, 2019 Lamborghini Huracán Evo."
The Brabham BT62 can be made road legal
"If you’re really keen on having a BT62 you can take to your local cars and coffee meeting, Brabham will oblige. After telling TG about the option back in summer 2018 (remember when it was warm and sunny?) it’s now been confirmed as a £150,000 option, applied before your car’s delivered."
Advertisement - Page continues belowAudi Q3 S-line review: another Audi best kept cheaper?
"On balance, the Q3 does enough to be taken seriously as a contender – it’s a better downsized SUV than the BMW X1, more interesting looking than a VW Tiguan, it’s plenty refined and the screens will please people whose smartphones could double as dinner place mats. It deserves a better (older) gearbox, and like the A1, avoiding S-line trim for a less jarring ride."
The Arden AJ 4 is a brand-new Eighties Jag
"Like the originals, these AJ 4s get upgraded V12 engines, with new intake manifolds, a sports exhaust and an optimised ECU. There’s also a new four-speed automatic transmission, modern Koni shock absorbers, bigger brakes and 245/40 section rubber on 18-inch rims."
Someone has made a half-pint Hoonitruck
"We’re told that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so Ken Block should be mighty flattered at the car above. It’s the work of a bloke called Alex Saint who has taken a look at Kenny B’s 900bhp slammed pick-up from Gymkhana Ten and thought ‘I want one of those’. Just smaller."
Hyundai's CES concept is a WALKING CAR
"Turns out the Mercedes G-Class isn’t that great off-road. Not compared to Hyundai’s CES concept, anyway. The ‘Elevate’ (so-called for reasons that ought to be obvious, if you’ve already scrolled through the pics) is what Hyundai calls a ‘Ultimate Mobility Vehicle’, or UMV. "
Advertisement - Page continues belowBMW has made a motorbike that rides itself
"If you’re still trying to get your head around the inevitability of autonomous cars, prepare to have your melon twisted even further. See, for CES (the techfest currently going down in Sin City) BMW has unveiled a self-riding motorbike. Hit the spooky music, people."
The new Mercedes CLA has clever mood lighting and mini-CLS looks
"Here’s a sign of the times: Mercedes has revealed the new CLA coupe-saloon-based-on-the-A-Class-thingy, and not said a single word about what sort of engines it’s slotted in the CLS-esque nose, or if it’ll get a manual gearbox, or how fast it’ll go from nought-to-sixty."
Advertisement - Page continues belowThe brand new Porsche 911 Cabriolet is here
"This is the all-new, 992-generation drop-top, and it doesn’t look in the least bit surprising. Indeed, if your brain is still jam-packed from digesting all the coupe’s vital statistics, there’s not much to learn about here, bar the roof."
You can now make your old BMW 1 Series look like a 2002
"The German company has developed a carbon body shell that echoes one of BMW’s most coveted classics but leaves the mechanics of the 1 Series untouched."
Liberty Walk’s G-Class-inspired Jimny has met its AMG cousin
"We first brought you the news of rivet gun-happy Liberty Walk setting about the Jimny back in August last year. The rendering suggested a menu of phat wheelarches, a square jawline and a stadium’s-worth of high-intensity spotlights. Happily, the finished article is the dead-ringer for Liberty Walk’s own tuned Mercedes-AMG G63 we hoped it would be."
The Nissan Leaf just got more range
"The Leaf 3.Zero e+ is more interesting. It gets a bigger 62kWh battery, giving more range and better performance. Nissan claims 239 miles of range on the WLTP cycle, an increase of 62 miles, and an increase in power from 148bhp to 214bhp."
Someone found 11 brand-new E34 BMWs in a warehouse
"Well here’s something you don’t see everyday. 11 brand-new, effectively un-driven E34-era BMW 5 Series, seemingly left to rot in a warehouse in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria in distinctly mysterious circumstances."
Review: Rolls-Royce Wraith
"A rapid coupe that's unlike any other car on the planet. Uniquely weird, easy to fall in love with"
The Brabham BT62 hypercar is heading to Le Mans
"Brabham is going to Le Mans. Mere days after confirming a road car homologation package for its BT62 hypercar, it’s confirmed that, at the other end of the scale, it’ll be battling for GTE victory with an endurance racing version."
Jaguar Land Rover is cutting 4,500 jobs
"Jaguar Land Rover has announced it needs to find 4,500 redundancies as part of its plan to save £2.5 billion over 18 months. The aim is to reverse its recent slip into loss from a profit the year before."
Behold, the rather lovely Lexus LC Convertible
"Come for the Supra, stay for the LC Convertible. That appears to be Toyota and Lexus’s thinking when it comes to next week’s Detroit motor show. Not content with the Supra’s much-hyped comeback stealing the show, there’s a back-up option should Toyota’s new sports car prove just too crowded for a selfie."
The Toyota Mark X GRMN is basically a BMW M3 homage
"The GRMN treatment, however, ought to prick up the ears of anyone who misses cars like the E46 BMW M3. For this is a saloon car with a naturally aspirated six-cylinder engine driving the rear wheels through a six-speed manual gearbox. It’s everything the purists are craving as the world goes turbocharged and paddleshifted. Look! There’s even a proper handbrake!"
TG drag races: Audi R8 Spyder vs McLaren 570S Spider
"A pair of 500bhp+ convertible supercars that go about their business in two very different ways – but which one wins?"
Volvo V90 T5 review: 247bhp petrol estate tested
"This is a well-executed, premium family estate. It could be more engaging from a driver’s perspective, sure. It could – perhaps should – feature a straight-six or even V8, because it feels big and premium enough to warrant such extravagance. We understand Volvo’s reasoning for downsizing, and anyway, everyone’s doing it these days. But still."
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