The Laguna Black Edition is now available from Renault, offering a host of upgrades to make what is already a well-endowed car that much better.

The GT-look pack, featuring a new front treatment, black headlamp masks for the bi-xenon lights, and tinted rear tai-lights combines with 16-inch alloy wheels to give the Laguna Black Edition that [...]

• 
• Comment
• Read More

Nissan and Renault have just taken the wraps of their jointly-developed all new 3.0 litre V6 turbo-diesel engine, set to begin appearing under the bonnets of Nissan and Renault models in 2010.

The new donk, with173kW and 450Nm, should be a belter. Besides those very appealing numbers, it features all the usual modern diesel technologies such as [...]

• 
• Comment
• Read More

Renault has announced that its all-new Koleos will soon be available from Australian showrooms, bringing along its own unique Gallic flavour to the SUV segment.

The Koleos is Renault’s first 4×4 crossover vehicle and was developed jointly between Renault, Nissan and Samsung Motors, making the mid-size SUV French in name only. Still, if you were never [...]

• 
• Comment
• Read More

Got an embarrasing story for you. A couple of weeks ago we found ourselves with three press car bookings in the same week. Tony was strapped into the new R36 Passat, The Insider had his bum in a Colorado and I thought I had a week off.

That was until The Insider called and said Renault had [...]

• 
• Comment
• Read More

Renault have officially revealed their new Laguna Coupe with the Cannes film festival providing the backdrop. We’ve already shown you how it looks so the big news now is what exactly is under that shapely new bonnet.

The French manufacturer has revealed two new powerplants developed in conjunction with Nissan including a brand new 3.0-litre V6 [...]

• 
• Comment
• Read More

Just shy of its unveiling, official images of Renault’s new Laguna Coupe have found their way onto the blogosphere and what a little hottie it is!

Gone are the concepts hidden door handles and LED lights but thankfully the sweet curves have remained in the gene pool, not quite the same as the concept but still [...]

• 
• Comment
• Read More

The good folk at Renault have been busy putting the finishing touches to their 2009 Megane, only to have French car rag Auto Plus reveal all, well ahead of any official debut.

Renault have clearly toned down the styling for the 2009 car in an effort to help it appeal to more punters. Far more [...]

• 
• Comment
• Read More

Due for its official unveiling in Detroit this week, the Mazda Furai Concept (Furai means “Sound of the Wind”) is based on an American Le Mans Series Courage C65 chassis and uses a Mazda triple rotor engine that produces 336kW/450hp when run on E100 ethanol.

Click through to see a video of the Furai on the [...]

• 
• Comment
• Read More

GM’s upcoming Corvette ZR-1 will be the most powerful production Vette that GM have ever built. Featuring the 6.2-litre supercharged LS9 small-block that we showed you last week this is the car that GM hopes will take the fight to the exotic supercar brigade, oh and of course Nissan’s new GT-R that will go on [...]

• 
• Comment
• Read More

We haven’t reported on the rumoured “Blue Devil” hi-po Corvette yet, simply because there hasn’t been a whole lot to report, just rumour and speculation – not that we make a habit of letting that get in the way of a good story… The speculation continues with a CorvetteForum.com member posting a pic of a [...]

• 
• Comment
• Read More

Wrapping up our coverage of the Sydney Motor Show is a picture gallery of the cars and brands we haven’t covered individually - we’ve covered the major highlights (in our opinion at least). There was a pink Micra on the Nissan stand but…well…one has to draw the line somewhere. There was plenty of bling, lots [...]

• 
• Comment
• Read More

Lexus have officially released details of its first “F” car, the Lexus IS-F. Due to go on sale in Japan on Christmas day it will probably arrive a little late to fill any Christmas stockings but there is always next year.

The big news is the power and torque outputs of the IS-F’s 5.0-litre V8 which [...]

• 
• Comment
• Read More