Posts Tagged ‘vauxhall’

The new Vauxhall Astra Cabriolet won’t be the Vauxhall Astra Cabriolet, it seems. That’s not posh enough for a brand that, says CAR magazine, is on the third phase of ...

There are only so many things you can call a car without losing all sense of rationality. Back in the day, it was L, GL, GLX, Ghia. Throw in a ...

Lotus is the car company that wants to be associated with everyone at the moment.  Or should it be Lotus is the car company everyone wants to be associated with? ...

MINI is helping pay off the economic deficit that is preoccupying Cameron and Clegg’s coalition Government. How? By making lots of cars and exporting 4 in 5 of them. Last ...

BSM has used an escape clause to cancel its high-profile deal with Fiat for thousands of 500 instructor cars. Apparently, it was the wrath of driving instructors that led to ...

VAUXHALL is to market its range-extender electric Ampera via a catchy new classification: EREV. Extended Range Electric Vehicle, that is. I reckon it’s going to become as common parlance as ...

LEXUS will open the 5 doors of its all-new CT 200h next week at Geneva. This car is a potential masterstroke. It will take Lexus into the premium mainstream and ...

ADS for cars can be as great or as tragic as the cars themselves. So, in the first of a decidedly ad-hoc series, I’ll dig out some YouTube links to ...

VAUXHALL, in 1963, used to offer 512 different types of carpet to its Victor model. Blimey. 512! Imagine the logistics, the waste, the need for systems management, the storage demands, ...

AIRCRAFT can either show relaxed stability or positive stability. Relaxed stability aircraft are unflyable without computer assistance – fly-by-wire. It’s impossible for a human to compensate for their sheer twitchiness. ...