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In an enticing prelude to the Geneva Show premiere of Vauxhall’s GT Concept, the company has released a second film that reveals more of the car’s design. In the clip, Dr. Karl-Thomas Neumann, CEO of Vauxhall and Opel, opens a door to show the front of the purebred GT Concept, with the words: ‘Don’t miss what happens next.’ Accompanying the film is an image of the GT Concept’s central double exhaust, and while the car’s design is in no way ‘retro’, the feature was a highlight of ground-breaking concept cars from both Vauxhall and sister brand Opel in the mid-1960s.…
Allison Allen from Daventry, Northamptonshire has driven off in a brand new top-of-the-range Tucson as the winner of Hyundai’s #M1LLION campaign, which celebrated Hyundai selling its millionth car in the UK since 1982. The #M1LLION competition asked people to nominate their ‘one in a million’ – a person they felt deserved to win Hyundai UK’s stylish, hi-tech compact SUV. Entries could be submitted as a text, image or video on Hyundai UK’s Facebook wall or on Twitter and Instagram using the hashtag #M1LLION. The promotion, which ran for one million seconds from 10am on 26th November last year (the equivalent…
Audi is preparing its international production network for the mobility of the future. Large series production of the first purely electric driven SUV from Audi will begin at the site in Brussels in 2018. The plant will also produce its own batteries. The company will transfer production of the Audi A1 from Belgium to Martorell in Spain. The Audi Q3, which is currently produced in Spain, will be built in Győr (Hungary) in the future. The model rotation will benefit all the sites of Audi’s global production network. “The new model distribution will enhance our production efficiency and strengthen all…
Vauxhall’s all-new Brit-built Astra Sports Tourer has been to the very extremes of climate testing, so it can defy the coldest of winters or the warmest of summers. Vauxhall/Opel‘s International Technical Development Centre (ITDC) reproduces conditions comparable to the Sahara desert. In Rüsselsheim, Germany in the middle of winter, the mercury is at 60 degrees Celsius and the sweat is pouring. In the middle of it all, the new Astra Sports Tourer defies the adverse conditions. One day later, same place, same time, but the observer is confronted with a completely different scenario: the Astra Sports Tourer is all wrapped…
A new era for fast Fords is dawning with the start of production of the all-new Focus RS performance hatch. Ford expects to produce 41,000 performance cars for Europe in 2016, up from 29,000 in 2015. This represents an increase of 40 per cent year-over-year, and comes after 2015 sales of performance vehicles in Europe showed a 62 per cent increase compared with 2014. Among models driving demand are the all-new Focus RS, the first of which has just rolled off the production line in Saarlouis, Germany; the Ford Mustang sports car for which Ford has now taken more than…
Tevva Motors has developed a new environmentally friendly, low emission solution for back-to-base fleets. Currently being tested on UK roads with three separate vehicles – one of which is in daily use with logistics operator UPS – the electric range extended drivetrain has the ability to reduce and avoid producing emissions completely thanks to Tevva’s intelligent predictive software. Tevva Motors has developed an electric range extender powertrain which can be fitted into an existing 7.5 tonne truck, either as a retrofit package or on the production line during the build process. The drivetrain consists of a single 120kW electric motor,…
Nissan has today announced its commitment to produce a future generation of electric vehicle (EV) batteries at its flagship manufacturing base in Sunderland, UK. Representing a £26.5m investment in the UK, this commitment will safeguard 300 highly-skilled jobs in manufacturing, maintenance and engineering at Nissan’s advanced lithium-ion battery plant in Sunderland, the largest of its type in Europe. The announcement comes at the beginning of a landmark year in which Nissan will celebrate the 30th anniversary year of its Sunderland factory – now the largest plant in the history of the UK car industry. Already the global leaders in electric…
A new event from the UK’s best-known Japanese performance car show brand looks set to become one of the must-attend highlights of the calendar when it opens on September 11, 2016. Completing a hat-trick of Japfest events in the UK for the 2016 season, the Motorsport Heroes event will be based at the family-friendly Hop Farm near Paddock Wood, Kent, and will bring together some of the most exotic and iconic Japanese models to have featured in the worlds of rallying and motorsport. From Subaru Imprezas and Mitsubishi Evos to classic Toyota Celicas and Datsun 240Zs, the world of rallying…
Auto Trader, the UK’s largest marketplace for new and used cars, has announced the top ten fastest selling used cars of 2015. The data, normally released monthly, shows the fastest selling used vehicles both nationally and by region, providing motor industry commentators and retailers with essential used car sales trend data. The Ford Fiesta has been named as the UK’s fastest selling used car of 2015, taking an average of just 29 days to sell. The popular hatchback features in every regional top 10 list bar one for last year, and in most cases, multiple times. The Vauxhall Insignia and…
SEAT closed 2015 with increased sales for the third consecutive year. Brand deliveries broke the barrier of 400,000 vehicles sold in a year (400,037; +2.4%) for the first time since 2007, amounting to a growth of 25% since 2012 (321,000 vehicles). SEAT Executive Committee Chairman Luca de Meo delivered the annual results this morning on the occasion of the first edition of the 2016 “Encuentros SEAT” meeting, under the title “Quality: success factor of Spanish industry.” The increase in sales is a result of recovery in Spain (77,200 vehicles; +14.3%) and Italy (15,900; +22.1%), the fifth consecutive year of growth…