Posted on March 21st, 2011, by William Amos
The new Nissan Leaf has moved from being a head-line grabbing fantasy car to one that you or I can actually drive around, as the model goes on sale in the UK. The electric-powered Leaf has been mentioned before on this blog, but it’s such a huge development in the automotive industry that it deserves [more]
Tags: Car innovation, electric car fuel, electric Cars, electric powered Nissan Leaf, New Car Technology, Nissan Leaf UK
Posted on March 4th, 2011, by Richard Yarrow
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On 15 February I blogged about the rebirth of Italian company De Tomaso, most famous for its Pantera muscle car. Now there was a vehicle which needed you to have car breakdown cover! I was chatting to its boss on the firm’s Geneva [more]
Tags: Geneva Motor Show, Hot Cars Geneva, New car Developments, New Car Technology, New Cars
Posted on December 10th, 2010, by Richard Yarrow
Richard Yarrow’s opinion for www.startrescue.co.uk, providing low cost Car Breakdown Cover.
Those of you who commute into the UK’s major cities for work will be familiar with the free newspaper Metro. I regularly write motoring articles for it and the latest one is about the race between manufacturers to launch the first car capable of [more]
Tags: Fuel economy diesal cars, Hybrid Cars, New Car Technology, Small Cars, Volkswagen
Posted on October 5th, 2010, by Richard Yarrow
Lotus stole the Paris Motor Show with its five new models that will undoubtedly change the Norfolk company beyond recognition. But another firm unveiled an identical number of cars that could change motoring forever.
Renault took the wraps off an entire range of electric vehicles (EVs), just as it said it would two years ago. [more]
Tags: Concept cars, electric vehicle developements, EVs, New Car Technology, New sports electric car, Paris Motor Show, VW
Posted on September 28th, 2010, by Richard Yarrow
The entire automotive industry’s focus this week is on France, where Mondiale L’Automobile – the Paris Motor Show to you and me – begins on Thursday with two Press Preview days.
More of that later in the week, and probably next week too, but I spent yesterday digging into the history of Bentley and in [more]
Tags: Bentley Continental GT, Mondiale L Automobile, New Car Technology, Paris Motor Show