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Electric Porsche Boxster being developed

Porsche are developing and electric Porsche Boxster It’s not exactly a surprise that Porsche has announced its intention to develop an electric roadster based on the Porsche Boxster, after all – as part of VW – they have access to an awful lot of technology and they’d be foolish to let car makers like Tesla or Fisker potentially steal some future Porsche glory. So starting early next year – as part of a programme Porsche call Modellregion Elektromobilität – three electric Boxsters will be out and about with their electric powertrains in the real world to give Porsche feedback. Porsche are making it absolutely clear that this rolling lab for an electric Boxster is entirely complimentary to – and in no way undermines – their hybrid programme, which includes the Panamera and Cayenne Hybrid and the Hybrid Hypercar that should soon become the production Porsche 918 Spyder.

Mercedes SL65 Black on steroids – the Brabus T65 RS

The Brabus Mercedes SL65 Black - the T65 RS So you want a quick, two seater Mercedes? What do you go out and get? At the moment, there’s not much choice – you grab an SLS.

2014 VW Golf R Mk 7 spy video

We did think, a few weeks ago when VW were playing tease with a ‘Frozen Beast’ teaser, that they were about to reveal (at least a concept of) the 2014 Golf R. But it wasn’t. In fact, it was the Mk 6 Golf R Cabriolet, rather late to the Mk6 party with the Mk 7 Golf now in the wild.