Hot news! Car industry bosses have pulled the plug on the British Motor Show. That’s not the 2010 one, or even next year’s event. It’s the British Motor Show 2012 and the powers-that-be have already decided – if you’ll pardon the pun – that it’s a non-starter. Quietly announcing this news yesterday, when the general [more]

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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]

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You will have heard of Lotus; small British car maker, based near Norwich, founded by Colin Chapman, generally best known for the ageing Elise – sales of which have kept it afloat for the last decade – and the Esprit that went underwater in The Spy Who Loved Me.

Lotus stole the Paris expo yesterday [more]

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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]

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