If I was asked to nominate...
If I was asked to nominate the most damning, scary and revealing motor industry article I"ve read all year, it would be the one my trembling hands tore from a leading American business magazine a little over a week ago. Among other things, the story said that Ford was in a mess. It"s hurting like never before. Unless things change big time, it is going down the tubes. And there"s more. Much more. At the wheel of the enterprise that has just lost .8billion (£3billion) in its last, dismal three-month accounting period, is Alan Mulally, whose corporation is forecast to burn another bn (£1.6bn) cash in the next quarter.
Last week (Issue 1,031)...
Last week (Issue 1,031), Auto Express brought you the first official teaser shot of the new Porsche Panamera. But now, we have the best look yet at the front-engined saloon ò€“ and itò€™s come from an unlikely source!
These sketches appeared on the website of German tuner 9ff. They show how a tweaked Panamera could shape up ò€“ but if you ignore the side skirts and big alloys, you get a good idea of the production modelò€™s lines.
The Panamera will come with either a naturally aspirated or turbocharged V8 ò€“ and 9ffò€™s creation is sure to have a tuned version of one of these units.