Car and Van News

Volkswagen is to add its R-line trim level to the Passat range.

A new turbo and supercharged 1.4-litre TSI petrol engine will also join the line-up.

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.

Volkswagen dealers in the UK have opened order books for the latest Golf GTI, and revealed it will be available in two power levels.

Alongside the stock 217bhp model, a GTI Performance version will be offered with 226bhp on tap.

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 latest version of Citroën’s C3 hatch will be unveiled at next month’s Geneva show.

The revamped car, which will reach UK showrooms in the early summer, features several technology upgrades.

Volvo has announced a wide-ranging series of revamps which will see new images for six of its models.

The two programmes involve the S60, V60 and XC60 and the S80, V70 and XC70 line-ups.

Kia’s all-new pro_cee’d three-door hatch will cost from £17,495 to £20,595.

Order books are now open for the car which will sit in showrooms alongside the five-door cee’d hatchback and cee’d Sportswagon estate.