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Newslines 16 January

16 January 2023

World premiere of Suzuki’s EV concept model eVX has been made at the Maruti Suzuki Pavilion at Auto Expo 2023, Delhi.. The eVX is an all-electric concept SUV derived out of Suzuki’s first global strategic EV, scheduled to be introduced to the market by 2025. UK market leader Tesla has slashed prices by as much as £8000 having fallen short of Wall Street … [Read more...]

Range Rovers top criminals’ wish list

14 January 2023

Owners of Range Rovers are again seeing more troubling news, as the latest annual vehicle recovery report by the UK’s leading vehicle tracking brand, Global Telemetrics, shows that Range Rovers once again top the list no car manufacturer wants to be on. Data collected throughout 2022 shows models of Range Rover to be at the top of the criminals ‘wish … [Read more...]

‘Hot air’ claims about hydrogen investment, say greens

13 January 2023

Europe’s oil majors’ ‘big bet' on hydrogen as the transport fuel for the future is not so big in reality, according to a new study on behalf of Transport & Environment, which shows that investments in biofuels refining are eight times bigger. T&E accused oil producers of not being serious about investing in genuinely clean fuels, but choosing the … [Read more...]

Tesla and Chinese brands top safety checks

13 January 2023

Safety experts Euro NCAP have revealed their results for the best cars’ they tested last year. These are the cars that achieved the highest overall scores, based on their results for Adult Occupant Protection, Child Occupant Protection, Vulnerable User Protection and Safety Assist technologies. For the very first time, this list includes two cars from … [Read more...]

Gravells excel for Kia UK

11 January 2023

Gravells of Bridgend has swept the board in the annual Kia UK dealer awards. The 2022 Kia Dealer Excellence Awards celebrate the best performing dealerships of the past year and each of the award winners were commended for their exceptional efforts over the past twelve months across sales, after sales and customer experience categories. For the second … [Read more...]

Newslines 10 January

10 January 2023

Rolls-Royce set another new annual sales record in 2022 as 6021 cars left its Goodwood factory – an 8% improvement on the previous record of 5586 cars set in 2021 - and the first time they had passed the 6,000 mark in a year. Most of the models went to the Americas and the average global price was over £430,000 per car. Over 30 Mercedes car models … [Read more...]

EV charging cost soars 50% since May

10 January 2023

The cost of rapid charging an electric car has gone up 50% in eight months – but those who do most of their charging at home still get great value RAC and FairCharge again urge Government to cut VAT rate at public chargers to make all charging better value and encourage the take up of evs. The Government has already said it plans to begin introducing … [Read more...]

Newslines 9 January

9 January 2023

The Aston Martin DBS 770 Ultimate is a final edition flagship to surpass them all. Ferocious performance of 770PS will come with a re-engineered, sharper dynamic focus to the handling and coupled with exquisite design and only 499 examples will be released from this Spring. Land Rover make the most unreliable cars, according to a survey of 6,000 motorists … [Read more...]

Ford Puma leads but Welsh car sales still low

6 January 2023

New car sales in Wales last year rose just 1.09% to 57,557 registrations, said the SMMT. They were helped by a 15.33% increase in December to 4,026 compared to the same month in 2021. Ford dominated the market but MG was very close to them. Wales Top Ten 2022 Ford Puma 1955 Ford Kuga 1341 MG ZS. 1319 MG HS. 1292 Ford Fiesta 1235 Nissan … [Read more...]

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