Car and Van News

This year’s Silverstone Classic is promising to live up to its claim to be the world’s biggest classic motor racing festival by breaking all records.

Launching the July festival to the media, event director Nick Wigley has revealed that entries, advanced ticket sales and trade stands are all running well ahead of last year.

Kia is considering entering motorsport, and Touring Car racing is a prime candidate for a programme.

The brand’s UK boss believes such a programme would help differentiate Kia from sister brand Hyundai, which is in the process of returning to the World Rally Championship.

Britain’s leading motorsport series will grow to unprecedented levels in 2013 after organisers announced a record grid.

The Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship has attracted a 32-car entry list, stretching across 13 models from 11 different manufacturers.

Reports that Honda is making a return to F1 by way of supplying engines to McLaren has come as news to The Japanese car company’s executives at the Geneva Show.

News filtered out from The F1 rumour mill but company insiders say there is nothing happening as far as they have heard.

MG is launching a limited edition version of its 6 hatch celebrating the brand’s phenomenal first racing season in the British Touring Car Championship.

The brand’s return to racing with top team Triple Eight Race Engineering led to a win at the first meeting and five more in the season.

Chevrolet has lots of work to do on the UK market, according to its newly-appointed UK MD.

Except that Andrew Higgins, in his post since 1st October, doesn’t describe the future as work to do but opportunities to grow.

Ford’s Fiesta ECOnetic has won this year’s MPG Marathon competition, clocking a remarkable 108.78mpg.

And this result was not achieved in laboratory conditions, but on a 370-mile driving route on real roads in challenging weather.