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Gavin Green on that Bentley SUV and Brit luxury icons

Gavin Green on that Bentley SUV and Brit luxury icons

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Gavin Green, 20 March 2012 07:08

The Germans have done a fine job at running the British car industry. Every major British-bred car company – Land Rover, Jaguar, Bentley, Rolls-Royce, Mini, Aston Martin – has a German boss. Most of these companies are doing very well, Land Rover, Mini and Rolls-Royce spectacularly so. The three best British cars of the past decade – the Range Rover, ...

Gavin Green on the plight of the modern 4x4

Gavin Green on the plight of the modern 4x4

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Gavin Green, 18 November 2009 12:15

After not driving any SUV for six months, suddenly – like the buses they are sometimes compared to – four of them come along at once.First up was the Ford Kuga. This was the best to drive of the quartet, and my mate who owns a Range Rover TDV8 says when he gets old and can’t afford to run a ...

Hummer sales nosedive, hybrids outsell trucks… the revolution has begun

Hummer sales nosedive, hybrids outsell trucks… the revolution has begun

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Gavin Green, 16 June 2008 10:29

Just as the Greenham Common women did not get rid of cruise missiles in Britain, so eco agitators have played no significant part in persuading America’s masses to go green. But just as one is now history, so the other is happening fast.  This week’s announcement that General Motors is to close four SUV and truck plants, and is to ...

Time up for trucks. Why pick-ups are the dinosaurs of the car world

Time up for trucks. Why pick-ups are the dinosaurs of the car world

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Gavin Green, 05 June 2008 12:11

Just as the Greenham Common women did not get rid of cruise missiles in Britain, so eco agitators have played no significant part in persuading America’s masses to go green. But just as one is now history, so the other is happening fast. This week’s announcement that General Motors is to close four SUV and truck plants, and is to ...

Kill the Porsche Cayenne – now!

Kill the Porsche Cayenne – now!

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Gavin Green, 28 April 2008 18:08

Now that Porsche owns Volkswagen and Audi, perhaps they will finally kill off that anti-Porsche, the Cayenne? The Volkswagen Group already produces two vast 4x4s – Touareg and Q7 – and Dr Wolfgang Porsche, company chairman, recently told me that he saw no sense in producing head-to-head rivals within the Volkswagen Group. He was specifically referring to the Audi R8 ...

Global warming and England's floods

Global warming and England's floods

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Gavin Green, 25 July 2007 08:36

Are Land Rovers and their ilk really killing the planet? Think again, argues Gavin Green I have been driving a Land Rover Discovery 3 diesel these past few weeks. It comfortably took my family of five to France, complete with masses of luggage and two bicycles, averaging 26.4mpg in the process. That works out at 132mpg per person. Yet I ...

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