Jaguar drivers can now use their car’s touchscreen to pay for Shell fuel with a new cashless payment app. The Shell app is one of several new enhancements to Jaguar’s F-PACE, XE and XF models and eventually the system will include wireless charging for drive-through fast food outlets. Research from Gocompare.com Car Insurance found that sales directors … [Read more...]
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Elfyn evens the score in snowy Sweden
Welshman Elfyn Evans put in another storming drive in WRC Sweden at the weekend, writes Gary Jones. But despite all his hard work with the M-Sport D-Mack Ford Fiesta he was dogged by some bad luck and ended 6th, the same position he opened with this season on the Monte Carlo Rally. It was a particularly snowy Rally Sweden and some very experienced … [Read more...]
Calling all Welsh women sporting drivers
Whilst organised motoring tours and rallies are a common occurrence in any English summer, for three days in June the beautiful Cotswolds will be the setting for a road event with one simple yet distinctive twist - the inaugural V8Rally Tour 2017, hosted by Victory8 Events, is aimed specifically at female entrants. This initiative is the brainchild of … [Read more...]
UK concerns over Vauxhall plants
Britain has contacted the president of General Motors to express concerns after the American firm opened talks to sell its European operations, including the Vauxhall plants in England, to France's PSA Group. The Department for Business said the government remained in close contact with GM and was monitoring the situation after the two companies said on … [Read more...]
Low carbon trucks may not bring anticipated reductions, say experts
Britain’s first Centre of Excellence for low carbon and fuel cell technologies, has been looking into the future of trucks and refuelling. The trial was commissioned by the UK government to support the procurement of low-emission heavy-goods vehicle (HGV) technologies and their supporting infrastructure. In partnership with engineering consultancy … [Read more...]
Tradelines 15 February
Mitsubishi has named its all-new SUV “Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross” before it appears next month at the Geneva motor show. As befits its sharp, coupé-like contours, the Eclipse Cross name references the Eclipse sports car which amassed more than 1.4 million sales, mainly in North America between 1989 and 2012, while also referring to the cross-functional SUV … [Read more...]
Profits pushed back at JLR by rising spending
India's Tata Motors reported a 96 percent fall in net profit for its third quarter, citing sharply lower earnings at its British luxury carmaker Jaguar Land Rover and losses in its domestic business. Consolidated net profit for the three months to Dec. 31 fell to 1.12 billion rupees from 29.53 billion a year earlier, the company said on Tuesday. Total … [Read more...]
Vauxhall face PSA merger deal to cut costs for firms
Vauxhall is facing the prospect of a merger with French vehicle maker PSA Peugeot Citroen. The British company’s parent and co-owner of Opel, General Motors, wants to divest itself of its two European operations. Vauxhall Opel and PSA have for five years collaborated on SUV and LCV projects but now their tie up could become more extensive and would … [Read more...]
Ex-VW head refuses public testimony over emissions, media reports
Ex-Volkswagen Chairman Ferdinand Piech resigned after a showdown with former CEO Martin Winterkorn and has refused to testify to German lawmakers investigating a possible government role in the VW emissions scandal, according to his lawyer. Piech, also VW's former CEO who spearheaded the automaker's global expansion, gave testimony to lawyers of U.S. law … [Read more...]
Briefly 14 February
The T9 bus service linking Cardiff with Cardiff Airport has experienced its best year on record, suggest figures by Welsh Government. Quarterly figures up to September 2016 show an average of over 13,200 passengers a month used the service in the last year, with month on month growth every month since June 2014. Plans for a new off-road 4x4 in the … [Read more...]
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