You can now pick up a brand new Citroen C1 VT from only £6,495! What a bargain.

It’s a 1.0i with 68hp, 3 door, does 62.8mpg (combined cycle), and road tax for 12 months is only £20!.

You’d better hurry though as the deal expires by the end of September.

• ABS
• Electronic Brakeforce Distribution (EBD)
• Cornering Stability Control (CSC)
• Driver’s airbag
• Front passenger’s airbag with cut-off device
• High-level third brake light
• Transponder immobiliser
• Variable power assisted steering
• Rear window wiper
• RDS stereo radio/CD player
• Auxiliary socket for MP3 player
• 14″ ‘Eole’ wheel covers (set of four)

Citroen DS3 

Citroen has announced that the Citroen DS3 and New Citroen C3 will make their Mobility Roadshow debuts – as part of a major display of versatile transport solutions – at this year’s keynote mobility event. With a total of 14 vehicles on display, Citroen will also showcase the award-winning Citroen C3 Picasso, Citroen C4 Picasso, Citroen Grand C4 Picasso, Citroen Nemo Multispace, Citroen Berlingo Multispace and Citroen C5 – which have all helped Citroen to become one of the UK’s largest vehicle suppliers to the mobility sector.

Read More Here: carpages.co.uk

General Motors is set to begin sales of the Chevrolet Volt electric car by the end of this year. But if you have your heart set on buying one, you’d better cool your heels.

GM plans to build only 10,000 Volts in 2011.

That works out to a selling rate of, at the most, about 835 Volts a month. GM currently sells more Cadillac Escalades than that and it’s a fraction of the sales for a popular model like the Chevrolet Malibu, of which GM sold 21,000 last month.

In 2012, GM plans to increase production to 30,000 Volts, but even that won’t meet demand for the car, said Lyle Dennis, a New Jersey neurologist who runs the blog GM-Volt.com.

Dennis’s blog, started shortly after the Volt was unveiled as a concept car in early 2007, has allowed people to add their names to a list of potential buyers. That list now has about 53,000 names, Dennis said.

Read More Here: CNN.com

Chevrolet announced that its Bumblebee themed Camaro marks the launch of the new model in the UK, the car is set to create a better buzz than most at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.

Building on Chevrolet’s iconic US Heritage, the retro-styled Camaro has been on sale in the USA since 2009, and has already seen sales in excess of 200,000 as American retailers cleared their waiting lists.

And very soon, those waiting to get their hands on an official Camaro in the UK will have reason to celebrate – the car will go on sale as an official Chevrolet, complete with full manufacturer warranty, during the first half of 2011.

It has been featured on silver screen in both 2 Fast 2 Furious and Transformers – the car is a full four-seater, with an interior that also takes significant cues from the look of its forebears.

The Camaro will be available only in top level V8 trim – the 6.2-litre 426bhp powerplant is as much of a legend as the Camaro itself. It promises a top speed electronically limited to 155mph, and a 0-60mph time of less than five seconds, coupled to a dynamic chassis that, thankfully, owes little to the layout of more traditional muscle cars.

Read More Over at: carpages.co.uk

I took a day out to the London Design Museum on Sunday – They have the design awards winners and nominees on display. Although there was a lot of interesting stuff in there, one item stood out from the crowd for me – it was the BMW ’skin’ concept car.

Unfortunately it was static, but none the less an extremely elegant looking car.

I took a few pics to share:

Here’s a video to show the cars movements:

Images courtesy of tuningnews.net

Well, I think we were all expecting a slight change in proceedings from the Bahrain GP but who could have predicted that race! It was exciting and suspenseful right from when the 5 lights went out. What looked like a risky decision from Button paid off massively in the end (unlucky to Vettel with his breaks – amazes me how drivers can be so calm about a break failure). Hamilton drove his socks off, Massa showed also he’s not going to move over and settle for a number 2 position and the Red Bull’s had to it all to throw away and did! Amazing race!

The weather had a big hand to play in the excitement and outcome, maybe the FIA should place sprinklers around every track (especially Bahrain) and set them off at unknown intervals. Just an idea.

Let’s hope the next grand prix will keep the momentum going.

As an F1 fan all I can do is hope and pray that this weekends race will be more exciting. Unfortunately for the organisers of the Bahrain GP they produced what was probably the most boring race within the last 2 or 3 years in F1 racing. You can’t really blame anyone except the rule makers though. The organisers can only do so much! We have cars that all weigh the same amount off the starting grid, all going round producing similar lap times, unable to overtake because of turbulent and less mechanical grip than last year due to narrower tyres!

Anyway, I could rant on and on but I still love it.

Check out these sites for more details and pics:

F1 Live

Official F1 Website

Due to public concerns about the level in the rise of fuel duty (expected to be 3p from the 1st April 2010), the Chancellor has opted to stagger the rises over the coming months.

The first rise of a penny is due from April 1st 2010, with the second arriving in October and the final rise in January 2011.

Fuel prices have rocketed in recent months even though the price of a barrel of oil has been relatively low. The finger is pointed at the weak pound.

Click here for an explanation on fuel taxes

Saab have entered a new era by producing it’s first car as an independent manufacturer. After spending several weeks closed the Trollhattan plant in Sweden is now up and running again and has started to produce the newest model in the Saab range the 9-5 Saloon.

CEO’s of both Saab and Spyker, the company which saved Saab at the 11th hour, were both on hand at the factory with it’s workers to mark the momentous occasion.

Congratulations to Saab and all it’s employees for pulling through these difficult times.