Win an Alfa weekend driving the 8C, Giulietta and 159

By Tim Pollard Competitions 25 June 2010 12:21 To mark the new July 2010 issue of CAR Magazine's Alfa Romeo centenary special, we're giving away a special prize to get any Alfisti drooling. You'll get to drive the 8C supercar, the new Giulietta hatchback and a 159 as part of our Goodwood weekend. Click here to enter our Alfa Romeo competition.Drive to the Goodwood Hotel in Sussex on Friday 19 November 2010, where the acclaimed new Giulietta hatch will be waiting for you and your guest.

Volkswagen XL1 Super Efficient Vehicle (SEV) spy video

Volkswagen XL1 caught on video The Volkswagen XL1 – a super efficient diesel hybrid – caught on video winter testing and undisguised. The VW XL1 arrived at the Qatar Motor Show in 2011, a two-seater diesel-electric hybrid with a design that looks like it came from a 1920s view of the future, and claims of a gazillion miles to the gallon. At the time VW debuted the XL1 we reckoned there was as much chance of it going in to production as McLaren’s latest Formula One car making it in to a showroom, and that the XL1 was just a test bed for all the future tech that might just find its way in to Volkswagen’s road cars.

Noble plans to bring the Fenix supercar to the United States with Chevrolet power

A new 200-mph, Chevrolet-powered supercar from Briton Lee Noble is headed to the United States, possibly in 2011 or 2012. Powered by either a 638-hp supercharged LS9 V8 or a 480-hp LS3 V8, Noble's new Fenix supercar will aim for Ferrari 458 Italia performance at about half the price, a performance-price offer that served Nobel well at his previous company, Noble Automotive. "The Chevy engines have partly been chosen because they have global homologation and sales in the U.S.