We first spotted this Hyundai i20 rally car on the back of a trailer heading over Northern Ireland’s Glenshane Pass back in April. It was a chance sighting but a couple of weeks later, we discovered it had just received its fresh new eye-catching livery and was heading to its new home at John Mulholland Motors’ ‘top secret facility’…
To celebrate the success of Marco Wittmann securing yet another DTM driver’s title at the season finale at the Hockenheimring, BMW M is launching the BMW M4 DTM Champion Edition. The new edition model consists of top-class motor racing technology for drive and suspension as well as a specific design that mimics the DTM racing cars built by BMW Motorsport and delivers a power output of 500hp and a maximum torque of 600Nm.
Being a fan of Skoda, namely the vRS model range I was looking forward to this test model from Skoda UK recently, as it to me is everything a car should be. Large yet practical with some sporting heritage providing a fantastic driving experience with enough oomph to boot.
Due to a fresh relaunch to include some new cars onto the fleet, all of which are available for you to drive, we travelled just across that invisible line where the road markings and road signs change, to spend a morning at Rally School Ireland (RSI) and enjoy the thrills, spills and adrenaline they have to offer as well as to be one of the first few people to experience first hand, two new cars they have on site.
Fermanagh rallying ace Jon Armstrong not only took the top of the WRC2 rostrum at Rally Spain at the weekend, which grants him two drives in an R5 category car next season, but also bagged the 2016 Rookie champion accolade while Welsh crew crowned overall champions on the same weekend.
I have touched on the Ariel Motor Company before on this blog when I road tested an Ariel Atom 2, so I won’t go into the company on this post more than to say that they are a small firm based in Somerset in the south of England who design and produce some seriously capable and unique cars.
Many of you will know what the Circuit of Ireland Rally is from my pictorial and editorial coverage in here over the years, and indeed it is one of the world’s oldest and once toughest rallies around. Ran for years by the Ulster Automobile Club (UAC) it went from strength to strength and died off over the years, returning to full bloom in the last few years again.
On Saturday I travelled into the hills above Broughshane to catch up with local drift driver Mark McBurney who at the age of just 24 has achieved something, that as far as we are aware, no one else has achieved in the Irish drift scene before now.
The TVR Griffith was the car that pushed TVR into the big league of performance car manufacturers when it was unveiled in 1990. The wedge-shaped cars of the eighties were nearing the limits of their development and a new direction needed to be found.
Ford as a worldwide brand have taken measures to create a “one Ford” type world, where by each model within the range should be available across its global market and indeed this is why the all new Mustang [read review here] is now available from new, in right hand drive, within the UK for the first time.