Le Mans is home to the most famous 24-hour endurance race in the world and the centenary event took place last weekend, with thousands of motoring enthusiasts making the pilgrimage via LeShuttle to partake. The LeShuttle terminals were alive with the roar of powerful engines, with over 1,000 supercar and elite sports car journeys booked around the weekend of the race. These special vehicles … [Read more...]
Newslines 15 May
Supercar club Auto Vivendi has added 12 new models to its collection in a week. Among the newcomers are Ferrari SF90, McLaren Artura (above), Lamborghini Urus Performante and Morgan Super 3, with more Ferraris and a Maserati MC20 Cielo coming soon. Over 27 million British drivers experience road rage at least once a month, mostly on the morning commute, reports iCompario business comparison … [Read more...]
Newslines 6 December
Polestar has released a second teaser image of the forthcoming Polestar 3 pure electric performance SUV. It will launch in 2022 as the company’s first SUV and will be its first vehicle to be built in the US, in Charleston, South Carolina. Stellantis has collaborated on a pilot project to build near Milan a 1,000 metre road implanted with an electrical loop to test inductive charging in … [Read more...]
Newslines 24 May
The Morgan Motor Company is completing the redevelopment of its visitor attraction, the Morgan Experience Centre, with the opening of its all-new interactive museum experience. The Archive Room is home to the full company archives, containing more than a century of artefacts, documents, photographs and footage that chart the unique history and heritage of the brand. UK based automotive insights … [Read more...]
UK specialists’ EV technology & weight challenge
In just nine years all new cars sold in the UK will have to be fully electric, or in some cases still to be clarified, hybrid. But where does that leave the specialist car companies of Britain, who have shaped a disproportionately large part of our nation’s automotive identity? Electrification poses a number of challenges for makers of specialist cars, most notably the weight and cost of the … [Read more...]
Newslines 6 March
The new Morgan Plus Four is the latest lightweight two-seater from the quintessentially British car-maker from Malvern costing almost £63,000. It replaces the 94 year old steel ladder chassis with an aluminium platform shortened from the Plus Six and power comes from a 255hp BMW 4cyl 2.0L petrol engine giving 0-62mph of 4.2sec, a maximum close to 150mph and it’s being targetted at the US market … [Read more...]
Newslines 12 December
A million embroidered stitches of floral designs were applied to the interior of a Rolls-Royce Phantom for a Stockholm client with a passion for flowers. It has been described as one of the greatest Phantoms of its generation. Almost a third of Christmas shoppers will use a car for convenience but half of them will suffer a breakdown on the journey. Green Flag pollsters were told that one in … [Read more...]
Newslines 21 December
The VW Arteon five-seat coupe is now available to order with a new 272ps 2.0 TSi engine and seven speed automatic transmission. The flagship 4WD model comes in two trim levels from £39,065 and £39,850. Only four out of ten UK motorists (41%) would call the Police if they thought a car was being driven by a drunk driver. A quarter would ignore it completely if they saw a car meandering in … [Read more...]