Electric cars are a nice idea, but I have talked before about how there are numerous problems that need to be sorted before they become a reality. I am more inclined to see hydrogen cars as the real future of the automotive industry, and electric cars as a convenient in-between …

Things have been on the up for the Tata owned car brand Jaguar Land Rover. Following a very hard year they had announced plans to shut one of their West Midlands branches, either Solihull or Castle Bromwich, within the next decade. Still, sales figures have been steadily climbing, and the …

Well well well, now here is a turn up for the books. General Motors, the American giant that ended up bankrupt after the credit events of last year, as announced its first quarterly profit in over three years. It isn’t all as cheery as it looks – after all, they …

Renault are having a lot of fun with their latest marketing idea. The concept, Very Good Trip, involves taking 8 teams, putting them in a Renault Megane Coupe-Cabriolet, and setting them off to travel 5000km across Europe. It sounds like they ought to fight to the death somewhere in the …

The Chinese car market grows again. Whilst a year ago we could have been forgiven for not really knowing anything about the Chinese car scene, the ground has changed a lot over the past year. The credit crunch and ensuing plethora of bankrupted profit-less car manufacturers has seen Chinese car …

Although the world has been in the grips of a global recession for all too many months, the car industry hasn’t been hit quite as hard as we expected. The dips in sales were significant, but they were also recoverable from for most large car companies – meaning that 2009 …

I love cars. I work in the car industry. I help people sell cars every day, and I dream of the day when I can own something really exciting, rather than sharing my boyfriends car. Specifically, I dream of owning a 2011 Ford Mustang (so I can afford the fuel!). …

This isn’t the first time that we have reported on issues in the UK secondhand car market. Back in January we reported about the problems with independent dealers mis-selling cars, and now those stats seem to be being backed up by the newest OFT stats report.
These stats declare that One …

I think from a consumer perspective (and probably from the perspective of the automotive industry too) the Scrappage scheme has been quite a successful idea. The publicity and successful marketing effort has seen thousands of people who otherwise wouldn’t have bought a new car heading straight to their local dealership, …

We are about half way through the Geneva Motor Show, and there have been some very impressive cars premiered in front of the eager hoards. With driving miniatures competing with muscular brawn, the inefficient fighting the Eco-friendly, and more car wax than you could shake a stick at, this glistening …