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Why Vauxhall should be more about RAKe than Adam

Why Vauxhall should be more about RAKe than Adam

Rated 4 out of 54

Greg Fountain, 10 May 2012 11:55

Vauxhall has called its new city car Adam. Pause for cynicism. On the face of it, this is plain silly, a clumsy lurch towards cutesy personalisation in the face of wave after wave of the meaninglessly generic names/numbers favoured by pretty much everybody else. Is Meriva, for example, more or less silly than Adam? Is Focus? Is Golf? How about ...

Mini workers threaten strike: who’s in the right?

Mini workers threaten strike: who’s in the right?

Rated 4 out of 54

Greg Fountain, 20 April 2012 16:42

News of the threatened strike at the Mini plant in Oxford is frustrating and disappointing. The last thing anybody on either side wants is a dispute which will damage all parties, and which would mark a return to the bad old days of the last industrial action in 1984, when Rover was running the show. It’s especially tricky at a ...

Gavin Green's review of the 2012 Delhi auto show

Gavin Green's review of the 2012 Delhi auto show

Rated 4 out of 54

Gavin Green, 05 January 2012 18:41

Quick question. What do you know about the Indian motor industry? I asked a couple of friends, car literate but not car nuts, before I set out for Delhi, and both cited the single fact that they still make the Hindustan Ambassador there (a 1950s Morris Oxford to anyone west of the Himalayas). We westerners have such a quaint and ...

Anthony ffrench-Constant: a Micra name change

Anthony ffrench-Constant: a Micra name change

Rated 2.5 out of 52.5

Anthony ffrench-Constant, 23 March 2011 10:45

Jif to Cif… Marathon to Snickers… Opal Fruits to Starburst… Ulay to Olay… And, boasting such an wholly absurd name that I have absolutely no idea what it might once have been called or, indeed, what the hell it does anyway; Cillit Bang (the missus tells me it’s a grooming product for tidying the nether regions of those toy dogs ...

How do people really use electric cars? Now we know

How do people really use electric cars? Now we know

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Tim Pollard, 14 September 2010 12:41

Mini has just released a batch of research papers showing how trials of 40 electric Mini E prototypes in the UK are going. It reveals how real-world customers in the UK are using the battery powered Mini – and how customers are coping with the limited range of electric cars. The results make fascinating reading, as our carscape gradually shifts ...

Why car prices are going backwards: 1989 prices today

Why car prices are going backwards: 1989 prices today

Rated 3 out of 53

Tim Pollard, 06 May 2009 09:50

Alfa Romeo today cleverly publicised the effective price cut of its rather tasty Mito by announcing a price rewind to 1989 levels. Yes, Brits can now buy a Mito supermini for less than £9000 – thanks to the Government’s scrappage scheme. The Mito 1.4 16v Turismo now costs £8995 in the UK, once you take into account the scheme’s £1000 ...

A Porsche supermini? Don’t be ridiculous

A Porsche supermini? Don’t be ridiculous

Rated 4 out of 54

Ben Whitworth, 18 June 2008 13:00

I read Ben Pulman’s recent blog on Porsche’s proposed ‘hatch’. While every manufacturer needs to keep a beady eye on its Corporate Average Fuel Economy figures, I presume Porsche would be tackling this with its ever-increasing stake of Volkswagen, using thousands of dinky Bluemotion Polos to balance a single Cayenne on the economy seesaw.But if it was planning a model ...

Gavin Green ponders the new world order

Gavin Green ponders the new world order

Rated 4.5 out of 54.5

Gavin Green, 14 April 2008 15:43

Not so long ago, the head turners were invariably the hot rods. Expressive meant express; fast equalled fun. A Ferrari glowed with character; most Fords and Fiats had as much character as grumpy Gordon at the dispatch box. Is it the traffic? Is it the speed limits? Or is it simply that there are some really appealing small cars now, ...

Why small cars have lost their way

Why small cars have lost their way

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Gavin Green, 13 March 2007 11:40

Original thinking is sadly lacking in superminis, reckons Gavin Green  My grandpa taught me never to look back. Don’t cry over spilt beer, he used to say (he was an Aussie). A blunt-talking man, he once caught me grieving over the family dog, which had recently died. ‘When you’re dead, you’re dead. Crying isn’t going to bring the dog back.’ ...

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