Jaguar: 0-75 years in under 4 minutes

Jaguar are celebrating their 75th Anniversary in 2010 If Jaguar had reached the milestone of 75 years of car making even five years ago, playing the ‘History’ card would have been a dangerous game. The perception then was that Jaguar were living on former glories and their cars were stuck in the past. After all, the XJ looked to many as if it had changed little in almost forty years (although it was very comtemporary under the skin) and the S-Type looked even older.

CAR reader reporters at the London motor show

CAR sent four reader reporters to the London motor show 2008. Check out their musings and rate their efforts at CAR Online By Tim Pollard Motor Shows 25 July 2008 12:45 A team of CAR reader reporters joined us at the international press day of the London motor show earlier this week – and you can now rate their reports live on CAR Online. You might be familiar with their user names: asp, carcare, jacomoseven and Sandy T won an exclusive competition at CAR Online to win golden tickets to media day, and they rubbed shoulders with the world's media as cars like the Lotus Evora, Honda OSM and Ford Focus RS were unveiled.

Mercedes SLS AMG: David Coulthard drives the Isle of Man +video

The Mercedes SLS AMG attacks the Isle of Man in the capable hands of DC UK readers and those outside the UK who play silly games to get their hands on the world’s second favourite motoring show – Fifth Gear – may well have seen Tiff Needell pop off to the Isle of Man to borrow a Mercedes SLS AMG David Coulthard was playing with. What David was doing in the Manx Mountains was driving the SLS AMG as fast as he could on the Isle of Man’s unrestricted roads (which were also shut for his convenience) to produce what the film makers are calling ‘The Fastest 3D film ever shot on Land”. The short film – ‘Manx Meister’ – has DC blatting across the top of the IOM at speeds in excess of 160mph.