German tuners have unleashed a Teutonic monster – the 205mph HGP Golf R36 BiTurbo. HGP Tuning has slotted in a 3.6-litre V6 engine lifted from the Volkswagen Passat and has fitted two turbochargers. And HGP tuning has upped the powerplant’s punch to produce an eye-watering 640bhp –...

The brand new Vauxhall Insignia has been revealed and will replace the ageing Vauxhall Vectra. The Vauxhall Insignia will debut a new ‘Griffin’ Vauxhall badge, with a clean and modern look. New technology will be featured under the skin of the Vauxhall Insignia to make it the most advanced Vauxhall...

This is the new Volkswagen Golf GTI Pirelli – a 152mph special edition of the German hot hatch. Powered by an tuned version of the 2-litre turbocharged engine, the Volkswagen Golf GTI Pirelli produces 225bhp – 29bhp more than a standard GTI. This accelerates the mean machine from 0-62mph (100kph)...

  Take a look at this crazy design – a 17-foot long limousine based on the Smart Fortwo city car. The bonkers machine – named the Carbonyte Smaaart – was designed by the same people who unveiled a stretched Ferrari 360 last year. Led my ex-McLaren man Chris Wright, Carbonyte took a standard...

A top tuning house has built one of the hottest versions of the BMW M3 yet. German tuning house Hamann has got its hands on the BMW M3, upping power and removing the speed limiter. Hamann has squeezed an extra 41bhp from the BMW M3's 4-litre V8 engine, creating a 455bhp missile. This means the...

  This is the new face of Vauxhall, which will appear outside dealerships from August. The company has redesigned its griffin logo to make it more modern and less fussy. The new badge zooms in on the griffin's head. It is no accident that the new badge will appear at roughly the same time as...

    More than 900 vehicles were stopped, 56 people arrested and 156 vehicles seized in a joint police campaign across the South West, south England and Wales. The nine police forces in the area joined together in the week-long Operation Utah. Officers used automatic number plate...

 Motor component firms have welcomed the takeover of Jaguar and Land Rover by Indian firm Tata. Tata, India's biggest vehicle maker, is paying £1.15bn ($2.3bn) for the brands after months of negotiations with Ford. John White of I.M Kelly Automotive which has 80 Coventry workers, said he was...