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The Beijing motor show is a bizarre mix of ultra-expensive high-end cars, mainstream motors with worldwide appeal, locally created automobiles that are improving in common as well as some extremely shoddy low-end Chinese models. however there were some genuine highlights – as well as deputy editor Graham hope as well as deputy news editor Luke Madden pick out their five much-loved show stars… Volkswagen Golf R 400 What’s not to…
The laser light turf war raging between BMW and Audi appears to have taken one final, decisive twist. At an exclusive ceremony in Munich yesterday evening, BMW handed over keys to the first eight i8 customers, and in doing so became the first manufacturer in the world to launch a production car featuring laser-powered headlights. Advertisement – article continues below Having previewed the new technology earlier this year, the German…
A number of new measures have been announced by the competition and Markets Authority (CMA) in a bid to increase competition and lower prices for automobile insurance. The plans include a cap on the charges passed to the insurer of an at-fault driver in an accident for the cost of providing a replacement vehicle to the non-fault driver, to more closely reflect the costs incurred and remove significant inefficiencies. Advertisement…
Britain’s streets are currently littered with 4.5 million road signs – a figure that has much more than doubled in the past 20 years. The number of speed limit signs, for example, has risen from 224,885 in 1993 to 441,400 last year. speed bump signs went up from 4,675 to a whopping 98,351. other noteworthy figures included clearway, or no stopping, signs, rising from 3,444 to 113,530, and priority restrictions,…
The least well off households in the UK have slipped additionally into transfer poverty, according to new figures. Data from the office of national stats (ONS) for the RAC foundation discovered that around 800,000 car-owning households spent at least 31 per cent of their disposable earnings on getting as well as running a automobile in 2012, compared to 27 per cent the previous year. The poorest households – those among…
Groupe Renault’s executive vice president for engineering, Gilles Leborgne, will seek an extension on the European-wide ban on automobiles with some form of combustion engine until around 2040, in a bid to keep providing cost effective cars as the industry pushes towards much more expensive all-electric models. He told car express at the Munich motor show that, “We will fight in purchase to keep hybrid alive after 2034, 2035, because…
This is the BMW X4, the German manufacturer’s most current model and a car that has just laid the foundations for a whole new niche. following in the footsteps of is bigger brother the BMW X6, the X4 blends classic X family sophistication with sporting coupe design cues. Prices will start from £36,590 for the base xDrive20d model and sales of the new X4 will kick off on 12 July 2014.…
electronic car hacking was responsible for almost half of the vehicle thefts in London last year, the Metropolitan police has confirmed. The new wave of car crime means thieves no longer have to smash a window or break a lock to steal a car, and can instead programme a device in just 10 seconds to unlock a vehicle. Advertisement – article continues below Gadgets, available online, can fool the car…
Volkswagen’s Golf-based T-Roc crossover is due a mid-cycle refresh, and our spies have captured the high-performance T-Roc R variant testing undisguised ahead of its launch, giving a clear look at the updated car. Styling tweaks for the new model are minimal. The front end receives a new, single-bar grille with a revised mesh design, which features thicker chrome trim on its upper edge compared with the outgoing car. Refreshed Volkswagen…
The timing of the global semi-conductor chip shortage could not be worse. at a time of substantial upheaval in the auto industry, not to mention contending with a devastating pandemic, the last thing needed was disruption to the supply chain. The situation we find ourselves in has led to multiple major manufacturers having to scale back or, in some cases, stop their entire production. could this have been avoided? Some…