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WITH the ne w September ‘64’ registration plate jus t a few weeks away, Volkswagen’s sporty revised Scirocco, pictured right, is open for orders.
Prices s tart at £20,4 55 on the road for the 1.4-litre TSI 125 PS manual and rise to £33, 795 for the mean-looking 2-litre TSI 280 PS R. Firs t UK deliv eries will be in October.
All Sciroccos now have LED tail lights, while the bumper has been reshaped to appear lower and more purposeful. The VW logo badge doubles as the tailgate release handle. The range-topping Scirocco R has bespoke bumpers and 19- i nch ‘ Cadiz’ allo y wheels. There are six ne w turbocharged direc t-injection petrol and diesel engines.
BRACE yourself for Volvo’s allnew seven-seater XC90 offroader. It also has T-shaped daylight running lights dubbed ‘ Thor’s Hammer’ after the Norse god of Thunder and comic book and cinematic superhero.
‘Anyone who looks in their rearview mirror is going to know immediately that there is a new XC90 behind them,’ says Thomas Ingenlath, Volvo’s senior vice-president for design. ‘The XC90 is a car that has presence on the road.’
SSANGYONG has refreshed its range for the ne w plate and also marks its 60th birthda y with some fully-loaded special offers.
The Korean firm’s anniversary editions of the Korando crossover, which start at £21,245, and Rexton W se ven-seat off-roader, from £25,995, are in pearl white lily metallic paint.
The K orando r ange s tarts from £ 14,995, and the R exton W from £21,995.
WATCH out, too, for the world premiere of Mercedes-Benz’s C63 AMG saloon and estate and the new generation B-Class. Mean- while, MB’s sporting S-Class Coupe goes on sale next month with the powerful S63 AMG costing from £125,595 and the S65 AMG from £183,065. An S500 AMG Line arrives next year priced from £96,665.
PAINT it black, sang the Rolling Stones, and Honda has done just that with a new Black Edition of its Civic hatchback.
To spread the load of the car costing £ 21, 4 55, Honda is offering monthly payments from £249, 0 per cent APR over three years and a £500 deposit contribution.
The ne w Civic Black Edition, from £21,4 55, is a vailable with either the 1.6i-D TEC diesel or 1.8i-VTEC petrol engines.
Both combine a number of gloss black elements to giv e what Honda calls ‘ a bold l ook with attitude’. A gloss-black roof spoiler accentuates the car’ s dynamic shape.
There are similar deals on other models in the Civic r ange, with prices from £16,995.
VINTAGE cars will be to the fore at next month’s Goodwood Revival event.
It’ll celebrate the anniversary of the discovery of Sir Jackie Stewart, aged 24, at Goodwood in 1964 — sparking half a century of motorsport success for the three-time Formula 1 world champion.
The festival’s host, the Earl of March, will also be marking 75 years since the establishment of RAF Westhampnett — the name given to the Goodwood Aerodrome during WWII when his family gave it to the RAF to aid the war effort. The Goodwood mess will carry a wartime theme, with visitors entering through a garrison to be surrounded by bunting, sandbags, ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’ posters and the sound of air-raid sirens. A spokesman said: ‘Westhampnett was best known as a Spitfire base and it was from here that Douglas Bader flew his final sortie.
‘To commemorate this, the 2014 Revival will feature an amazing dynamic display of military cars, vans, trucks, jeeps, tanks, aircraft and personnel.’
Details at: goodwood.co.uk.
IF YOU missed out on a brand new E-Type Jaguar firs t time round, your chance is set come around again.
Jaguar Land R over’s Special Vehicle Operations arm is making six special lightweight E-Types to the original specification, with a price tag of around £1 million.
The move completes a projec t started in 1963 to build 18 such racing-oriented cars — but only 12 were ever finished.
Potential customers at P ebble Beach, California, ha ve their chance to see the first of the new E-Types in action this week.