Mid-Wales based Riversimple has unveiled of the “Rasa”, a road-legal engineering prototype of its first two-seater hydrogen powered road car, built for full European type approval. Supported by a £2m grant from the Welsh government in 2015, every aspect of the Rasa has been tailor-made and interrogated for lightness, strength, affordability and safety, to … [Read more...]
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AA rescue used car sales for dealers
The AA has come to the rescue of used car dealers. The motoring body has relaunched Vehicle Inspections for dealers, offering pre-sale vehicle inspections that will help dealers stand out from the competition, protect them against new Consumer Rights legislation and increase profitability. By having their vehicle stock independently inspected by the … [Read more...]
Trade is split over buying stock
A split between "two tribes" of trade buyers - those who buy almost entirely online and others who remain motor auction-based - is becoming increasingly apparent, says Glass's. The motor industry data market leader reports that there has been a noticeable hardening in the shape and attitude of both groups over the last year or so. Rupert Pontin, Head … [Read more...]
Smartphone technology now used to measure car quality
More than a century after Henry Ford started the first moving assembly line, Ford Motor Company is applying smartphone technology to his pioneering development. Ford has developed a wearable device and a smartphone app that enables production line workers to make faster and more accurate quality checks on new vehicles. Previously, workers at Ford’s … [Read more...]
Spot checks on German cars
Germany wants to carry out unannounced emissions tests on all automakers to help restore confidence in the industry that was shattered by the Volkswagen cheating scandal. "There will be controls on vehicles in the style of doping tests [for athletes]," Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt told the Bild newspaper. "Unannounced and every year." One way … [Read more...]
Newslines 16 February
Businesses in Wales are worried about a digital skills shortage among their young workforce. A report for Capgemini shows 18% of businesses questioned said young people did not have the necessary digial skills for modern work, the worst of any group in the UK. … [Read more...]
Newslines 15 February
The DB11 will be unveiled by Aston Martin at the Geneva motor show next month. It is the vanguard of the company’s renewal and will replace the 13 year old DB9. Alfa Romeo could return to Formula One racing with its own team rather than simply putting its name to an engine provided by Ferrari, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles CEO Sergio Marchionne … [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...]
Urgent action called for to encourage autonomous vehicles
A new report by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers is calling for urgent Government and industry action to encourage the greater use of autonomous and driverless vehicles. Philippa Oldham, Head of Transport at the Institution of the Mechanical Engineers and Lead Author of the report, said: “We need to urgently resolve legislative, technological … [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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