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It’s the Jaguar F-Type Roadster UPDATED +video

Jaguar F-Type Roadster The Jaguar F-Type is the production name for the C-X16 Concept and will arrive as a Roadster first in early 2013. Well, Jaguar F-Type was one of the monikers we pitched as a possibility for the new Jaguar Roadster and Coupe previewed by the C-X16 Concept, but it was a long way off the top of the list. But Jaguar F-Type it is and, for what it’s worth, we approve.

Rolls Royce Ghost Series II Geneva tease

The Series II Rolls Royce Ghost teased It’s getting on for five years since the Rolls Royce Ghost arrived officially as the ‘cheaper’ option to the Phantom and aimed at owner drivers. And now it’s time for an update. Ahead of a debut at the Geneva Show next week, the Rolls Royce Ghost Series II is being teased by RR with a single image of its iconic front end (above).

BMW i3 EV revealed. It’s clever, but it’s not exactly pretty

The BMW i3 electric city car (pictured) has been officially revealed The BMW i3 – the first of BMW’s production ‘i’ electric cars – has finally been revealed at events in London, New York and Beijing as BMW plots its course to bring a premium electric city car to the world. Looking much like the original Mega City Concept, the i3 debuts a number of innovations from BMW – which are very clever – but it also debuts perhaps the worst looking BMW we’ve ever seen, with its incongruous lines, bulging bonnet, odd shapes on the flanks and slab-backed rear view. But what underpins the i3 is clever indeed, with a lightweight inner body made from carbon fibre and carbon fibre reinforced body panels providing the skin, all conspiring to make the i3 light – 1195kg, despite 25 per cent or so of that being batteries – and very rigid.