It’s a very interesting question and everyone will have their opinion but what makes a car become an icon? The Mazda MX-5, Bugatti Veyron and Audi TT have been voted the top three cars most likely to be classic icons […]
The French automotive industry is on its ass. The economic crisis, as we all know caused by banks, has hit particularly hard in France with those manufacturers that haven’t got seriously big operations in emerging markets: PSA Peugeot-Citroen and Renault, […]
Here at the Firstvehicleleasing.co.uk blog we’ve been discussing the reliability of cars and the warranties offered by manufacturers. Buyers don’t want poor workmanship – no matter what the marque is – and they want value for money. People are keeping […]
A few days ago I kicked off with a first issue of a prospected series about modern concept cars reincarnating classics of ages ago. The BMW 328 Hommage we have today isn’t quite as literal a translation as the Renault […]
Cars. Enjoy ‘em while they last. The European Commission will soon take all the fun out of them. From 2020 onward, any newly produced car is allowed to release a maximum of 95 grams per kilometre, equal to 152 grams […]
I’m not 100% sure if they were the first, but at the back end of the nineties, VW came up with a new incarnation of a (very) old model: the New Beetle. Since then, many carmakers have followed suit. Mini […]
It’s got a big gob, a puffy nose and angry looking eyes. Anyone seen Stephen King’s ‘It’? I hate it when that happens. I take a look at a new car, get some crazy associations in my head and for […]
It’s no longer a worrying rumour – Dacia are launching their new Duster at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this week. And it’s likely that their sales strategy is going to make every SUV manufacturer sit up and take notice. […]
It’s one of those issues when buying a used car – just how long will it last before I get saddled with a massive repair bill? Now a firm which offers warranties on cars has come up with the answer. […]
When comparing to any of its previous generation models, it seems Vauxhall (Opel in the rest of Europe) must have hired a new designer some years ago. And guess what? The man knows what he’s doing! Any new Vauxhall coming […]
I don’t know who is more surprised by this announcement – me or Jaguar. But the best car to own is the Jaguar which claims the top spot in the J.D. Power/What Car? 2012 UK Vehicle Ownership Satisfaction Study. The […]
If you tend to keep informed about motoring news, you will have seen it already. The new Renault Alpine A110-50 concept has been all over the news the past week and with every particle of incremental news unveiled about it […]
Perhaps you caught this in automotive news recently: General Motors and PSA, the company that supplies the world with Peugeots and Citroens, have announced a serious collaboration. You’re not paying close attention if you haven’t noticed yet: carmakers globally, except […]
With the build quality of new cars being vastly improved in recent years, what proportion of them would fail their first MoT? I think it’s a really good question and consumer website honestjohn.co.uk has looked at 24.5 million MoT records […]
