After what seems like a very long winter, the British Touring Car Championship is finally back this weekend. With a huge grid and new faces, our resident BTCC Correspondent gives us his views on the season ahead. BTCC 2015 – A few thoughts… The Easter weekend sees the return of the BTCC to the track and our…
2015 New York Auto Show – Subaru BRZ STI Performance Concept
If there’s one thing people have taken criticism over the Subaru BRZ / Toyota GT86 / Scion FRS trio with, it’s the power. Or relative lack thereof. Is this US concept the answer? The concept of a low slung, lightweight, naturally aspirated sportster is nothing new. When it comes to the BRZ, this makes for…
Vauxhall’s April Fool’s Day Vivaro Taxi Kebabi
EngageSportMode finds kebabs to be a real guilty pleasure – a doner kebab at the end of a night out is a good thing. Vauxhall’s 2015 April Fool’s Day offering sounded just too tasty to be true. Press release follows: For many years now, after a good night out, it’s almost been mandatory to get your taxi driver…
Updated – The New McLaren 570S Coupe
Adding to their ever-growing ranks of orange coloured supercars is this latest offering from McLaren – the 570S Coupe. Unveiled at the New York Motor Auto Show today, the 570S is the entry model to McLaren’s road car roster. So, is it more Fifth Avenue than the Bronx for the baby Mac? Let’s cut to the…
2015 Vauxhall Adam Grand Slam – The Review
As part of the Vauxhall Media Driving Day, we got the chance to try out the hottest addition to the Adam lineup. Does adding more power to the style-concious city car produce a true driver’s car? You’ll have to head on over to Motoring Research to find out the answer. Yes, that’s right. The full…
Friday Photo – Vauxhall Media Day 2015
Earlier this week EngageSportMode was lucky enough to be invited along to the Vauxhall Media Driving Day. With the chance to get behind the wheel of some of the Griffin’s finest – both new and old – we leapt at the chance and made our way down to Luton. We’ll have full reviews of the modern metal…
Friday Photo – New Mercedes-AMG F1 Safety Car and Medical Car
By the time you’ll be reading this, the 2015 Formula 1 season will have already started with the first practice sessions in Melbourne. New for this F1 year are a brand new Safety Car and Medical Car – here’s the lowdown on them both. Mercedes-Benz has been supplying the Official Safety and Medical cars to…
Editorial | What road for Top Gear now?
Clarkson and Top Gear have dominated the news this week. EngageSportMode’s editor gives his opinion on what this latest controversy means for the future of the world’s most popular motoring media brand. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, or in an area without 02 signal, for the past week you’ve probably heard a little story about…
Friday Photo – Geneva 2015 | Orange is the new … blue?
Earlier in the week, the doors opened at the PalExpo centre for the 2015 Geneva Motor Show. EngageSportMode spent a hugely enjoyable day helping the guys at Motoring Research with their live blog on Tuesday. If you haven’t seen the live blog already, go grab a Toblerone and experience it now. Then come back and see why…
Geneva 2015 is here with the new Honda Civic Type R!
After weeks of anticipation, the 2015 Geneva Motor Show is finally here! In fact the show hasn’t even officially started, and there’s already been excitement with the new Honda Civic Type R being shown off in actual production trim! It looks pretty much as the concept predicted although, sadly, the massive rear spoiler has been…
Friday Photo – The Geneva 2015 ‘known knowns’ Gallery
A few years ago, Donald Rumsfeld made an infamous speech talking about things we know, and don’t know about. Ahead of the Geneva Motor Show next week, we’ve got a gallery covering the new cars we already know will be there. That’s mainly because the manufacturers have already spoilt the surprise by showing them to us. The past few weeks…
Geneva 2015 News and Photos – The All New Audi R8
Finally, we can bring you photos of the new Audi R8 in full, rather than peeping out from beneath a cover. It’s also another car which won’t be a surprise in Geneva next week! But, anyway, here’s the brand new second generation of Audi’s supercar available in a range of V10 flavours from the off. Ok, it’s a…
