European Car News

A number of new cars were launched this month, although not all of them had the fancy launch party that Nissan had. BMW didn’t even have a party for their Rolls and Mini models.

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Lamborghini unveiled a limited version of the Murcielago at the 2007 Frankfurt Auto Show. Calling it the Lamborghini Reventón, just 20 will be produced, and while it is based on the Murcielago LP640 completely under the skin, this car will be priced at 1 million Euros, before taxes.

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In recent years, BMW has started showing off “concept” versions of near-production models. Keeping up this new tradition, they’ve unveiled the “concept” BMW X6 crossover 4WD coupe whatever at the 2007 Frankfurt Auto Show.

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Three new German wagons will debut at the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show – the Mercedes-Benz C63 AMG wagon, the Audi RS6 Avant, and the Porsche Cayenne GTS (which technically is a off-road 4WD, but who uses it as one?).

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Five new cars were launched in Dubai in the last few days, with more to follow. These include the Mitsubishi Lancer, the Mitsubishi Outlander, the Honda Legend, the Toyota FJ Cruiser and the Volvo C30.

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This apparently is a leaked first photo of the “new” Audi A4. It looks like it has some sort of sport kit on it. We are not sure if the platform is new, since the car looks like a simple facelift yet again, but we found some other info.

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The 2009 Jaguar XF has been unveiled, as a replacement for the aging S-Type. However, engines continue to be the same.

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This “modded” Aston Martin, called the DBS, was unveiled by the company a few days ago. For some reason, it didn’t interest me as much as the Honda Accord that was unveiled at the exact same time, so I didn’t bother reporting on it. Well, today is a slow news day, so here it is.

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Some American magazine in the United States leaked the first photo of the 2009 Jaguar XF onto the internet. The new car, shown as a C-XF concept many months ago, will replace the aging S-Type series.

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It’s been a few days now since we got the Mini Cooper S. And we are still playing with it. It took us a while to get used to its firm steering/clutch/shifter setup before we could enjoy it (which, thankfully, we could due to BMW’s long four-day test policy). But what surprised us most is that we actually matched the company-quoted 0-100 kph time of 7.1 seconds. And that too with the a/c on in the middle of the summer. Our previous BMW X5 tester took more than a second longer than what BMW said it would take,

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