Volvo C30: now starts under £15k

Volvo C30 ES 2.0 - now starts at £14,995 It’s been all change at Volvo in the last year, with the Swedish car maker going from being the last vestige of Ford’s ill-fated Premier Auto Group to the first high-profile car maker to fall to the Chinese resurgence as an economic force. Volvo also has a new boss in former VW man Stefan Jacoby, who has made it clear he doesn’t see Volvo as a ‘Premier’ marque. Not that he’s downplaying what Volvo has to offer, he’d just prefer us to think of Volvo as unique and Swedish rather than in competition with the likes of Mercedes and BMW.

Porsche 911 GT2 RS leaks

The Porsche GT2 RS leaks from a private viewing in Leipzig Not literally, you understand, but the details of the new Porsche 911 GT2 RS have found there way on to the interweb from that font of high-end help – Teamspeed. The 911 GT2 RS – the last of the current generation (997) 911s to surface before we get an all new 911 in 2010 – was previewed for dealers and valued clients in Leipzig. Which probably means that at least one of Teamspeed’s members were at the event, hence the phote above and some gen on what the GT2 RS has to offer.

Vauxhall Astra VXR Extreme gets 300bhp

The Vauxhall Astra VXR Extreme (pictured) gets 300bhp When the Vauxhall Astra Extreme popped its head above the parapet at the end of January as a potential range-topping Astra, we did wonder if it was going to get more power as well as suspension and cosmetic tweaks. It is. Vauxhall still aren’t saying just how powerful the Extreme is, but they do say it will have ‘more than 300 pS if (and probably, when) it goes in to production.