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The new office is home to a team of 35 staff who will drive different aspects of the business for Pirelli from passenger cars, including foreign premium and prestige models, as well motorcycles.

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Pirelli Singapore's new downtown home

Located at 77 Robinson Road, the new office houses the team that handles regional work for the Italian tyre manufacturer.

This latest addition to the Exige range packs the advanced chassis, suspension and powertrain set-up from its more powerful stablemate, the track focused Exige Cup 430, with a recalibrated engine producing 410 hp at 7,000 rpm and 420 Nm on tap from 3,000 rpm to 7,000 rpm. The high-performance 3.5-litre, supercharged and charge cooled V6 engine, combined with a dry weight of just 1,054 kg, delivers a class-leading power to weight ratio of 389 hp per tonne; this also makes the Exige Sport 410 the lightest V6 Exige ever.

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Lotus Launches New Exige Sport 410

IN Lotus, Exige, Sport, Exige Sport 410, Exige Sport 350, Cup, Exige Cup 430, Lotus Exige Cup 430, UK

Available in Coupe and Roadster configurations, Lotus claims this is the ‘ultimate road car’, developed directly from the track focused Exige Cup 430

Of the nearly 126,000 vehicles registered worldwide, Ford reported 81,866 of those were registered in the United States where the Mustang is manufactured, meaning just over one-third of all Mustang registrations are occurring in export markets. Ford sold 13,100 Mustangs in Europe - consisting of the U.K, Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Romania, Sweden and Switzerland - last year according to the company’s own data, even outselling the Porsche 911 in 13 European markets.

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The World's Best-Selling Sports Coupe Is…

IN Ford, Mustang, Ford Mustang, Ford Mustang GT, Ford Mustang Bullitt, 2018

Surprise, surprise - Ford sold 125,809 Mustang coupes and convertibles in 146 countries just last year

Test drivers focused specifically on Polestar 1’s torque vectoring system, enabled by two rear electric motors with individual planetary gear sets. Chassis balance was further optimised thanks to the advantages of testing on ice, allowing the test drivers to better analyse and react to the car’s behaviour while driving. “Now we look forward to introducing the car to the Chinese public for the first time, a key market for Polestar,” concludes Thomas Ingenlath.

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Polestar 1 Heads To Auto China

IN Polestar, 1, Polestar 1, Electric hybrid, Hybrid, GT, GT Coupe, Thomas Ingenlath, Auto China 2018, 2018

Following its successful dynamic test drive, the Polestar 1 heads to Auto China 2018

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Audi RS 5 CoupÃ© | Clinical CoupÃ©

The new RS 5 is longer, lighter and sexier than its predecessor. But it’s also two cylinders down - does it make the car less fun to drive? We find out

Realising they need a model to attract the younger and trendy set - thanks to Honda and Nissan who went ahead earlier with their HR-V and Qashqai respectively - which thinks the Vios is not exactly the cool set of wheels they would want to own, this is what Toyota came up with.

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Compact X-Over Feature 1 — Toyota C-HR Turbo

IN Toyota, C-HR, Toyota C-HR, C-HR Luxury Dual Tone, Crossover, X-over, SUV, Borneo Motors, Singapore, 2018

Toyota decided to go down the less boring route, and this is the result

Conceptualised as the Kia GT Concept back in 2011 at the Frankfurt Motor Show, the low and wide grand tourer with suicide doors got tongues wagging with its radical styling and rather un-Kia-like rear-wheel drive layout. 6 years on, the production car we have here today looks darn close to the concept with aggressive vents, sweeping roofline and wraparound taillights.

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Kia Stinger GT V6 | Pleasant Surprises

IN Kia, Stinger, Stinger GT, Kia Singapore

Kia sets its sights squarely on the Europeans with this 365 bhp, rear-wheel drive sports sedan

0-100 km/h comes in at a very decent 7-seconds, and this non-Quattro front-wheel drive coupÃ© is more than able to handle the power whether you’re accelerating from the lights or through some twisty corners.

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Audi TT Coupe 1.8 TFSI | Red Riding Hoot

IN Audi, TT, Coupe, TT Coupe, Audi TT Coupe 1.8 TFSI, 1.8, TFSI, 1.8 TFSI, 2018, Audi Singapore

It was definitely a huge novelty when first introduced back in 1998, but the Audi TT has since matured and this third generation model is now quite a respectable sports car

Aiming to break the existing Production SUV record of 12:35.61, the Bentayga will need to average a minimum 97 km/h up the exceptionally tight and twisty 156-corner course. Pikes Peak represents the next challenge for the Bentayga, following Betley’s tradition of testing its cars in extreme environments that has seen the Continental GT set records of 330 km/h on ice, and over 290 km/h on sand; not forgetting an unmodified Continental GT Speed that tackled a stage of the World Rally Championship.

Motorsports

Rhys Millen To Pilot Bentayga Up Pikes Peak

IN Bentley, Bentayga, Bentley Bentayga, Rhys Millen, Production SUV, Pikes Peak, Pikes Peak 2018, Colorado, Crewe, Luxury, SUV, Luxury SUV, June 2018, 2018

The former ‘King of the Mountain’ and Bentley team aiming for Production SUV record

But then again if you were to scan through our market, the other options would include the Mazda 2, Mitsubishi Space Star and Nissan Note; yes, it’s the Japanese that are still dominating our market in the sub-S$95k segment.

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Seat Ibiza 1.0 EcoTSI | More Than Meets The Eye

IN Seat, Ibiza, Seat Ibiza, 1.0, EcoTSI, Seat Ibiza 1.0 EcoTSI Style Plus, Spain, Spanish, Seat Centre Singapore, 2018

Looking for a new set of wheels to run around town? Seat’s little hatchback here is worth a closer look

The 570 hp four-wheel drive powerhouse for the FIA World Rallycross Championship (WRX) has a new look, as well as optimised aerodynamics. The new exterior makes this year's Polo R Supercar easy to distinguish from its predecessor.

Motorsports

Polo R Supercar debuts

IN Volkswagen, VW, Polo R Supercar, Polo, Polo R, Volkswagen Motorsport, R, Volkswagen R, PSRX Volkswagen Sweden, 2018, FIA World Rallycross Championship, WRX

Volkswagen Motorsport's new Polo R Supercar has been unveiled in Autostadt Wolfsburg, for this year’s FIA World Rallycross Championship

The Polestar 1 is an electric performance hybrid GT coupÃ© which produces 600 horsepower and 1,000 Nm of torque, while offering 150 km of pure electric driving range - this is the longest of any hybrid car in the world, to date.

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Pre-Order Book Opens For Polestar 1

IN Polestar, 1, Polestar 1, Electric hybrid, Hybrid, GT, GT Coupe, Thomas Ingenlath, 2018

This marks the latest step for Polestar, while the Polestar 1 continues with its first public appearance at the ongoing 2018 Geneva International Motor Show

BP23 will carry an as-yet unannounced name, rather than the alphanumerical nomenclatures used by the McLaren Sports Series and Super Series; this name, together with the maximum possible speed, will be disclosed nearer to the car’s reveal.

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McLaren To Build A Hyper GT

IN McLaren, BP23, McLaren BP23, Hyper GT, Ultimate Series, McLaren Special Operations, Geneva Motor Show 2018

Next new model to join the Ultimate Series, following the McLaren Senna, features centrally-mounted driving position inspired by the F1 road car

Classics

Bentley Reigns In Road To Saigon

IN Road to Saigon, ERA, Endurance Rally Association, Singapore, Saigon, Ho Chi Minh, 2018

Rallying over 8,600 kms in 27 days, about 35 crews took on a series of challenging regularity and speed trials as they journeyed through Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam