Lampeter & District Motor Club hosted the latest round of the Welsh Road Rally Championship, the Rali Bro Caron last weekend, and attracted a full entry of 90 cars. With midnight striking on the Lampeter town hall clock the first cars started the challenging event with the first half of the route heading west towards Aberaeron. Leaders at the … [Read more...]
Aston Martin DBX electric supercar will be built in Wales
Wales has won the bid to build the futuristic Aston Martin DBX crossover. Executives from the company and Welsh Government leaders will hold a press conference in Cardiff this morning to formally announce the project and give more details as well as unveil the electric super car. About 750 jobs will be created when the revolutionary car is … [Read more...]
Maserati and Ford show newcomers
Maserati has revealed the exterior form of the Levante, the first SUV in the brand's history. It will join the Quattroporte, Ghibli, GranTurismo and GranCabrio models and be available with petrol or diesel engines with full details next week at the Geneva show. The next generation Ford Kuga is now on sale. It gets the new 120PS 1.5 … [Read more...]
Mitsubishi will honour EV orders after subsidy deadline
Mitsubishi Motors has distanced itself from news that some manufacturers are cancelling customer orders for plug-in vehicles because demand is significantly rising ahead of changes to the Government Plug-in Car Grant. The announcement that the plug-in car grant will reduce from £5000 to £2,500 for plug-in hybrid vehicles bought after 1 March, 2016 has … [Read more...]
Sunday drive: Skoda Superb L&K Estate
Being part of the VW Group the Czech brand has call upon the knowledge, technology and components used in Audis, VWs and SEATs. But it means the new Skoda Superb Estate’s competitors include the Audi A6 Avant, VW Passat Estate plus the likes of the latest Ford Mondeo Estate, Mercedes E-Class Estate and BMW 5 Series Touring. The Superb Estate is bigger … [Read more...]
Weekend roadtest: Jeep Cherokee Limited 2.2 Auto 4×4
Not many manufacturers can say they inspired Land Rover, but Jeep can and justify their standing in the off-road market. When the first Land Rover was sketched on an Anglesey beach after WW2 it was based on the Jeep wartime general purpose vehicle of the US military. The rest, as they say, is history. Fast forward to the present day and the … [Read more...]
Return of famous sports car series
Renault has confirmed it will build a new Alpine sports car. The project has been on and off for a few years, after talks with Lotus for a possible joint venture, but now the new car will be built in Dieppe and go on sale in 2017, possibly after its production debut at the Geneva motor show in March of next year. This week, the Alpine … [Read more...]
Exciting rally opener goes to wire in North Wales
The 2016 Pirelli MSA Welsh Forest Rally Championship got off to the most exciting start possible as Rhuddlan’s Luke Francis and co-driver John H Roberts took outright victory on the Cambrian Rally by the narrowest possible margin, writes Peter Hughes. 2015 was a bumper year for Wales’s premier rally series and registrations are at an even higher level at … [Read more...]
Sunday drive: Built in Britain Infiniti Q30
Infiniti, the premium brand from Nissan, has launched their all-new UK built Infiniti Q30 C-segment five door hatchback and it’s thoroughly British. Not only is it the first Infiniti ever to be built in Europe, it was created at the Nissan-Infiniti Paddington design facility, engineered at their Cranfield department and is now in production at Nissan’s … [Read more...]
Weekend roadtest: Jaguar XE R-Sport 163ps
Jaguar is the cat with the cream in the shape of the new XE premium saloon. Pitching in against some longer established rivals from Germany, it not only has the measure of them but can beat them in many respects. We first drove the XE Portfolio last year and were impressed with the new 180ps diesel engine, but for this longer test we tried the cheaper … [Read more...]
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