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The Fiat Panda (2012) and the cult of the 'squircle'

Tim Pollard, 06 November 2012 10:32

Squircles are the designer's latest friend – the new motif which you'll find adorning many new cars, from BMW's ugly-as-sin 1-series to the new Fiat Panda. I drove the Fiat Panda TwinAir last night and couldn't move for the damn things. Squircles here, squarcles there. About the only thing left round was the steering wheel - and even then the ...

Why Vauxhall should be more about RAKe than Adam

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?

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 ...

Britain's dozen transport design icons, by Gavin Green

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Gavin Green, 24 January 2012 15:55

A great British design classic is reborn next month. The new Routemaster bus goes into service (from Victoria to Hackney). It looks great, including practical jump-on jump-off rear platform. I can hardly wait to get on board. I loved the old Routemaster, especially riding on the top deck. So I got thinking about great British transport icons and came up ...

Gavin Green's review of the 2012 Delhi auto show

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

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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

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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

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

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 ...

Why Porsche needs a supermini

Ben Pulman, 13 June 2008 12:10

The latest rumour to fly round the internet is that Porsche is planning a new hatch for 2012. No, not the hatchback Panamera saloon (we’ll see that a lot sooner) but a mid-sized hatch, based on the Mk6 VW Golf that will be shown at this year’s Paris motor show. Sacrilege! Should any such monstrosity turn up – I don’t ...

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