UK Car industry strikes back

We've got a new Mini, a new Bentley and in his latest film, after having put up for too long with transport more at home on the middle-management company car wishlist, Mr Bond is driving something befitting a man of style - the new Aston Vanquish. Sadly these days the Mini is made by BMW, Bentley is owned by Volkswagen and the Vanquish is a closer blood relative to the Ford Fiesta than it is to the DB4 from Goldfinger. Never mind, though, another once great British manufacturer is poised to unleash this - the X-Power

The mere fact that's it available with nitrous oxide injectors as a factory fitted option elevates its manufacturer to the realms of the truly wicked. In days of stringent emissions tests and ever-dwindling chances to be even vaguely antisocial on the road, the fact that a mainstream manufacturer is proposing to sell an off-the-shelf motor with 900bhp and a button which injects nitroglycerine into the engine has got to be cause for celebration. And the manufacturer? None other than the one-time purveyor of slightly hotted-up Metros - MG.