McLaren F1 owners are currently in possession of a potential goldmine. Literally. The price of gold is at an all-time high: on Friday, the intraday price rose to $1637.50/oz, as ...
This week, a brand-new motor racing circuit opened in the UK, with a fanfare that included laps by an F1 car during the opening ceremony. OK, it wasn’t quite Lewis ...
RUNKEEPER seems to have now done it – installed live tracking so joggers can stream what McLaren F1 now streams! On Sunday, I ran the Silverstone Half Marathon. The RunKeeper ...
F1 cars round Silverstone are being replaced for one weekend, by a few thousand bats people. Among the throngs will be yours truly: yep, I’m entering the Silverstone Half Marathon. ...
Driving to work every day – well, it’s just like being an F1 driver, isn’t it. Hmm. Not something you’d normally think on the commute around the Wolverhampton Ring Road. ...
ANOTHER day, another take on radiogate. Seems Hamilton and team manager Dave Ryan told fibs to the stewards. Yesterday, of course, I thought the FIA was mad. Just what was ...
Saab and Volvo: two very different companies indeed: “Volvo has 20,000 employees, Saab at the death had 3500. In 2010 Volvo produced 375,000 cars, Saab in its final year managed just 32,000. And Saab’s $940m turnover was dwarfed by the $16.7bn generated by Volvo.”
That’s why Ford paid $6.45bn for Volvo in 1999 - yet GM’s entire stake in Saab cost just $725m…