It’s depressing to be reminded all over again today of the sad and shabby history of MG-Rover. Much more sad is that it looks dangerously likely that history might repeat itself with Vauxhall-Opel.
Vauxhall: is it MG-Rover all over again?
at 3:36 pm on Tuesday August 11, 2009
BMW CS lives! Kind of…
at 10:25 am on Tuesday July 28, 2009
The lovely BMW CS four-door coupe isn’t dead yet. Or at least, its spirit lives on even though an actual production-car version of the CS concept was canned a few months back.
VW tucks into Porsche
at 11:08 am on Thursday July 23, 2009
Porsche is, after a titanic batttle, about to become a member of the VW Group. Last year Porsche tried to take over VW. VW struck back. This has been one of the great soap operas of industrial history.
Red-lining the green Bentley
at 11:06 am on Wednesday July 22, 2009
Just been out for an ‘engineering drive’ in a late prototype of the Bentley Supersports. The one Derek Bell drove at Goodwood. The development chief says it’s a Ferrari 599 rival. Well yes, it was a wet day on difficult Cheshire roads, and I don’t think a 599 would have kept up.
Mackems lead the electric charge
at 10:02 am on Monday July 20, 2009
There’s something far more important behind the news that Nissan’s Sunderland plant is to lead the charge (ha ha) in battery manufacturing. In 18 months time, you’ll be able to buy a proper full-sized Nissan hatchback powered entirely by batteries.
Vauxhall’s Astratrix driven
at 5:25 pm on Monday July 13, 2009
In among all the jiggery-pokery about Vauxhall’s new owners (Russian? Chinese? Italian? Belgian?) the company is still busy churning out new cars. Foreman has driven a prototype of this autumn’s Astra, and it’s a seriously good rival for the Focus or Golf.
Driven: Porsche Panamera
at 9:46 am on Monday June 29, 2009
‘Jay, you look at the dials,’ I said to my passenger, ‘I’ve got other things to concentrate on.’ We were doing about 270km/h and rising fast.
Koenigsaab is born
at 3:08 pm on Tuesday June 16, 2009
Until this morning I couldn’t reliably spell Koenigsegg. It was a little company of fewer than 50 employees making fewer than 20 cars a year. Now it has effectively taken over Saab.
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