Peugeot have been a bit behind the game recently, with both the 206 and 307 giving us very little to get excited about. The glory days of the 205 GTi and 306 GTi-6 seem a long way away now, with their replacements being panned for being boring and, even worse, unreliable. However, with the new Peuge...

Fancy a dose of car eye candy on a fantastic 3D scrolling wall? Well, thanks to the wonders of PicLens you can now have it! Driving Spirit now supports the PicLens browser plugin, which presents an interactive 3D gallery of images that can be scrolled around, clicked on, zoomed into … it̵...

More bits from the motoring blogosphere, starting with: Porsche To Build Hot Hatch? - so it’s a hot hatch and it’s made by Porsche? Sounds good to me!  Ferrari Owners Can’t Drive - ouch!!! 16 Year Old wins 445bhp Ford Mustang - jammy little so and so  To Fake Or Not To F...

Auto Express (and other websites) are claiming to have ‘exclusive’ info about the upcoming Ford Focus RS. However, the details in their exclusive offer little more than we’ve heard already. The Focus RS will give about 280bhp from a modified version of the ST’s turboharged 2....

As a last farewell to the current model, before it’s replaced by the new Fiesta later this year, you can now order a Ford Fiesta ST500. Using the same specification as the existing ST (2.0-litre with 148bhp), the limited edition Fester follows the same formula as the Focus ST500 with only 500...

If you’re an EVO reader, and as a long-term subscriber I most certainly am, you may have spotted that a couple of the big names on the magazine’s writing staff have disappeared. Both Richard Meaden, co-founder of EVO, and Jethro Bovingdon, deputy editor, have left the magazine with no me...

Another week, another roundup of motoring stuff:  Fuel Crisis Nets Treasury £1.7m - if you’re of a violent temperament I’d advise not reading this Importance Of Crash Testing - want to know why crash testing is important? Check out the YouTube clip and picture yourself in the ...

Track Day season is upon us, and to mark the occasion Red Letter Days have got a new product available - the V8 Supercar Thrill! This gives you the opportunity to take to Rockingham race circuit in a 5.7-litre V8 Monaro. However, this is no ordinary Monaro, instead it’s a race-specced version ...

The much-anticipated release of the Volkswagen Golf MkVI is nearly upon us, with the new car due to be revealed at the Paris Motor Show in September. As details have emerged over the last few months, one of the more interesting announcements was made recently by VW’s manager for powertrain res...

In a move that will make hot hatch fans roll their eyes in despair the next generation Astra VXR, due in 2010, will feature a smaller engine! In an attempt to make the hottest Astra more affordable in this current climate of high taxes and pricey fuel, the current 237bhp 2.0-litre engine will be rep...