Update: Mazda2 Circuit Trial image added.

The Mazda stand at the 2009 Tokyo Auto Salon is set to feature a series of track-ready ‘Circuit Trial’ concepts, with modified examples of the Mazda6, Mazda2, and RX-8 on display.

A good display is nothing if it isn’t paired with an appropriate theme, and Mazda’s ‘Driving-oriented environmental technologies for endless [...]

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While most cars at the SEMA Show can be characterised as chrome-dipped, gold-plated and diamante-encrusted examples of styling gone amok, it’s easy to forget that there are still a few show cars hidden in those giant Las Vegas halls that don’t provoke strong bouts of nausea.

Islands of common sense and tasteful restraint in a [...]

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Last weekend started out rather strangely.

Having sauntered down to the carpark Saturday morning, I couldn’t resist having a long look around the silver Evo X that had just been dropped over to me. Sure, I’d seen and been in the new Evo before, but another look over the flared guards and vented bonnet wouldn’t do [...]

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Lexus’s IS-F is without doubt the brand’s performance flagship (at least until the LF-A arrives), but the presence of this taped-up prototype at the Nurburgring yesterday has already generated plenty of speculation on not only what this car is for, but also what level of performance lurks beneath its skin.

While it has an oddly-bulging [...]

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Hyundai have announced a new concept vehicle that they will be debuting at this year’s Geneva Motor Show. Hyundai are calling the new concept the HED-5 and refer to it as an MPV (Multi Purpose Vehicle).

It might be called the HED-5 but the new concept is actually a 6-seater. Being constructed with the latest in [...]

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Tipped by TMR to be the performance car “bang for your bucks” buy of 2008, the Mitsubishi Ralliart has been formally announced by Mitsubishi today. With the Evo X and the Impreza STi squaring off, the Ralliart has the standard Impreza WRX firmly in its sights.

The interesting news here is that the Ralliart features Mitsubishi’s [...]

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Okay, lets be honest. The car you see in these pictures is the new Cadillac CTS-V and its dog ugly. Good from afar…but far from good is the best way to describe the styling, particularly the 80’s inspired front end. But…just like the fat kid at school had the best personality, the CTS-V ‘s ugliness [...]

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We’ve recently seen some artists impressions of the highly anticipated RX-9 hit the net. It turned out that they were produced by the guys over at Winding Road but lets not let the details get in the way of a good story. While the possible new RX-9 remains an unknown quantity (Mazda, please drop the [...]

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The guys over at Carscoop appear to have received details from Mitsubishi Europe concerning the upcoming 2008 Lancer Ralliart and if the price is right, it has the potential to be the small car performance bargain of 2008.

Confirmed specifications include a full-time AWD system with Active Yaw Control and an Active Centre Differential. If that [...]

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In the midst of its pending sale, Land Rover is celebrating its 60th anniversary with a special edition UK-only Defender 90 dubbed the Land Rover Defender SVX .

Gussied up with some anniversary extras, the SVX is possibly the most up-market version of the short-wheelbase 90 series yet seen. The SVX comes with metallic black [...]

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Ford have announced a limited run of special edition Focus ST500’s of which just 500 will made available to UK customers for £20,495. Based on the top-of-the-range Focus ST3 the ST500 includes a number of unique features, such as metallic black paintwork with silver bonnet, roof and side stripes which Ford hope will remind us [...]

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The latest wave of hype and speculation has come to an end today with the opening of the Tokyo motor show and the official release of the Subaru WRX STI amongst other iconic Japanese cars such as the Nissan GT-R.

Although no new pictures have been released since our last coverage, Subaru have fed us full [...]

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