11.16 Still no sig of the new McLaren P1 just yet: 11.15 Erin Baker has been examining two new versions of the Volvo V40: Two good-looking derivatives of Volvo's svelte V40 hatch are on display at the Paris motor show. The racy (all terms are relative) R-design version goes on sale in January for about £21,000 with the Cross Country model costing about £22,000 10.59 Nissan's 370Z has been given a not-so-extensive facelift in time for the Paris motor show. The changes amount to new bumpers, LED daytime running lights and red brake calipers on the outside, and a couple of bits of upgraded trim on the inside. 10.54 Here's Bentley's new racer, the Continental GT3, on film: 10.47 So let's consider those Jaguar F-type prices for a moment against what are likely to be its main rivals, both of which are built by Porsche. The base model Jag is £58,500, has 335bhp/332lbft, which delivers 0-60mph in 5.1sec, a top speed of 161mph. The closest Porsche Boxster in terms of performance figures is the S, which will provide 315bhp/285lb ft, 0-60mph in 5.1sec and a 173mph top speed, all for £45,384. Or you could go for the cheapest 911, the Carrera 3.4, which has 350bhp/288lb ft, 0-60mph in 4.8sec and a top speed of 179mph - yours for £71,449. In terms of price, Jaguar has very much taken up the middle ground between the Boxster S and 911, although for the headline performance figures it's beaten by both. Has it shot itself in the foot? We'll have to wait until we can drive the car in order to answer that. 10.34 Speaking of the Jaguar F-type, see the moment is was revealed to the press at the Paris motor show in our video, with an introduction from the car's designer, Ian Callum 10.31 Prices have been announced for the Jaguar F-type. The base model will cost from £58,500, but go for the V6S and it'll be £67,500 10.27 Over at the Ford stand there are new versions of two of its most important cars, the Fiesta and Mondeo: 10.20 Here's Alexei Sayle's impression of the biannual French motor show extravaganza: When I visited Paris in the 1970s one of my lecturers at art school would always ask me to bring her back as many packets as I could of a brand of white pill-like mint that was only available from vending machines located on the platforms of the Metro. The name of the mint was Mental Blanc. Several times while attending the Paris Motor Show this week I was so overwhelmed by the sheer volume of things to see, the distant halls filled only with caravans, car stereos or displays of tyres, that I wished I had several hundred of those mints, so that I could erase my overloaded memory and begin again with a complete mental blanc. These remote halls at the Porte de Versailles have numbers such as 9.2 while even Jaguar Land Rover, which launched the F-type and the new Range Rover were in 5.1 and faced a French sports car maker called Exagon, whose stylish two-door was named the Furtive E-GT. Hall 1 though is at its heart a French affair. In the middle Peugeot-Citroën faces Renault across the central aisle like two rival gangs, eyeballing each other. Renault has brought Dacia and Nissan along for support and has arranged all its cars in shades of red through orange to yellow so that its display of Carmine Clios gathered on a sort of mound looks like a clutter of cheerful little fire engines. Across the way I was shown round the cute new Citroën DS3 Cabriolet with its folding roof in a wide range of groovy fabrics. This is displayed on a revolving turntable, which gave me a chance to do my Marcel Marceau walking-into-the-wind impersonation right behind the boss of Citroën, who was being interviewed live on French TV. Even if it is in Paris, this is an international show and sadly there is an absence of white-faced mime artists and accordion players, but what there is is tons of cars and even the humblest hatchbacks look jewel-like parked under the hot lights while new models such as the F-type are exciting to see for the first time. Some doubt the purpose of motor shows in the age of the internet but one and a half million people will come through the doors in the next few days and leave in need of a mind-wiping mint. 10.20 Read more about Kia's new Carens in Erin Baker's latest update, in which she also assesses the brand's transformation: Kia is currently the fastest growing car brand in Europe, and next spring also marks the arrival of the facelifted Procee'd, the company's good-looking three-door hatchback, at which point design director Peter Schreyer's successful reinvention of the brand will be complete 10.05 Erin Baker is impressed by the number of British success stories at Paris. For more about how the UK automotive industry contributes to the economy read James Foxall's analysis: the UK car economy in numbers 10.00 Andrew English has been trying to find out more about McLaren's successor to the F1 supercar, although details are still few and far between: It's what we don't know about the British McLaren P1 that is proving to be the most intriguing aspect of this good looking car. So no details on the driveline, transmission, or any of the hardware except to say it will have a resin transfer moulded carbon-fibre body, with alumiumium alloy subframes to hold the suspension and driveline. Prices will be about £800,000 in the UK and the production total will be less than 500 9.46 As part of the build-up frenzy for the unveiling of the F-type at the Paris Motor Show 2012, Jaguar staged a "secret" unveiling of the car at the beautiful 18th century Musée Rodin, Paris. Telegraph Motoring was far too busy gathering industry gossip from across the French capital to rub shoulders with celebrities, but we hear singer songwriter Lana Del Rey performed a new track which was, naturally, inspired by the F-type. Titled Burning Desire, the songstresses" paean to the two-seater sports car will feature on her next album and is the soundtrack to a short film being produced in association with Ridley Scott Associates. Bet it's not as memorable as Little Red Corvette. Or Mustang Sally. Even Alexei Sayle's Hello John, Got A New Motor? - talking of which, read our columnist Alexei's thoughts on the Paris motor show madness here very shortly. 09.16 Is building a new two-seater sports car the right move for Jaguar? Have your say in our poll. Is the new Jaguar F-type the car that Jaguar should be building? 09.14 Porsche's Paris motor show surprise is this Panamera Sport Turismo concept car. The new 928?