Car and Van News

What is it: Latest version of Ford’s pocket rocket

Key features: New Ecoboost engine, clever chassis, budget price

Renault’s Captur small crossover will cost from £12,495 when it arrives in UK showrooms on 1st July.

The price is designed to strike a blow for Renault’s newcomer, being £500 lower than the class-leading Juke from sister brand Nissan.

Toyota has revealed prices and specifications for its new mid-sized van, the Proace.

The van will be available in 10 versions, nine of them panel vans along with a crew cab.

Jaguar has unveiled the latest incarnation of its XJR, the fastest and most powerful version of the large saloon yet offered.

Shown to invited media ahead of this week’s New York Auto Show where it will make its public debut, the XJR has 541bhp from its 5-litre supercharged V8 engine.

UK buyers may well think it’s a city car aimed at the north, but the e-up! is Volkswagen’s first fully electric production vehicle.

A version of the up! city car, it will be launched at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September and go on sale from early 2014.

The new Lexus IS range will cost from £26,495 when it arrives in UK showrooms in the summer.
Lexus’ new volume-seller, expected to take on the Audi A4, BMW 3 Series and Mercedes C-Class, was launched at the Detroit show in January.

Kia will reveal its pro_cee’d GT and cee’d GT at the Geneva Motor Show in March.

The hot hatch versions of the three and five-door cee’d will be the fastest production models offered by the Korean brand.