A North Wales car dealer is supporting a local young golfing star. Tyn Lon Garage, Anglesey, has partnered with North Wales-based golfer Josh Charnock to support his golfing and business endeavours with the loan of a Volvo XC40, presented to him by Clare Curtin, Sales Consultant. Originally from Birmingham, Josh moved to the Holywell area when an … [Read more...]
Trendsetting Mitsubishi eyes BIK changes
Mitsubishi Motors UK welcomed the government’s plans to restructure the Benefit in Kind taxation system. The change will encourage the uptake of greener vehicles amongst business users. In the next financial year, beginning in April 2020, the UK’s best-selling plug-in hybrid, the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV, will now attract a BIK rate of 12% for eligible … [Read more...]
Battery cars and Welsh buyers bucking the trend
New car sales in Wales are holding up better than the rest of mainland Britain and pure battery vehicles are booming toward record numbers. SMMT figures for July showed a drop of just 1.18% to 5,551 registrations last month while they went down over 2% in Scotland and a whopping 4.57% in England. Meanwhile, dealers in Northern Ireland reported a modest … [Read more...]
DVLA talking point is taxing for some
Motorists are asking some unusual questions when they want to retax a vehicle, says the DVLA. DVLA’s services on Google Assistant and Amazon’s Alexa allow motorists to ask DVLA when their vehicle tax is due by providing the registration number. These services have been used over 47,000 times by more than 20,000 unique users since they launched 2 years … [Read more...]
Plans for Ford plant after closure
New investment uses for the Ford Bridgend Engine Plant site have been identified after it closes in just over a year. The future of the 189-acre site is one of the priorities identified by the Ford Bridgend Taskforce, chaired by Welsh Automotive Forum Chairman Richard Parry-Jones, who was also Ford's senior engineer in the 1990s and later. Chairman Richard … [Read more...]
Newslines 5 August
Over 2.7 million drivers have had a collision or veered off the road in the last two years because they were distracted by their mobile phone. The new study for Kwik Fit found that of these drivers, just over one million had collided with another car while their attention was diverted from the road and a further 4% of motorists, some 1.8 million drivers, … [Read more...]
£72,140 Renault Megane heads for UK
They are the ultimate Renault Megane models and just 32 are coming to the UK priced between £51,000 and £72,140, with the option to spend even more. Renault Mégane R.S. Trophy-R recently broke the front-wheel drive lap records at both the tortuous Nürburgring in Germany and the sensationally fast Spa Francorchamps in Belgium. Limited to … [Read more...]
Growing a car is future possibility
We could one day be growing our cars. Cars are responsible for carbon emissions that contribute to global warming, but so is their manufacture – and that’s about to change. Now, scientists are working on plastic made from weeds, modular designs and other innovations help the motor industry reduce its carbon footprint even before a new car turns a wheel on … [Read more...]
On sale date announced for Aston Martin DBX
Orders for the Welsh built Aston Martin DBX open next month at the globally important Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, California. The luxury car maker has received a steady stream of enquiries since it announced the car, which will be assembled at St Athan’s new car plant. In fact, pre-production models have already been completed as part of the … [Read more...]
£1 M boost for Welsh EV research
Counsel General and Brexit minister Jeremy Miles yesterday announced EU funding of more than £1m to advance research into magnetic and electromagnetic materials in Wales. This investment will support Cardiff University’s Magnetic Materials and Applications (MAGMA) project, enabling the university to expand its research and development programmes in areas … [Read more...]
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