Times are tough but the future is bright for car building in Britain
UK car manufacturing has huge challenges – but high hopes, too
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Transmission Troubles? Identify and Fix Common Issues
Your car’s transmission is like its backbone—it’s what transfers power from the engine to the wheels. Without it, your car… Read more » The post Transmission Troubles? Identify and Fix Common Issues appeared first on Motor Verso.
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New baby Nissan Juke EV on the way to challenge the Dacia Spring
Nissan to fast-track development of new battery-powered city car to take on forthcoming Volkswagen ID.1, and our exclusive images preview how it could look
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And Australia Says: Mate, Don’t Buy A Used Land Rover Defender
An Australian YouTube channel, ReDriven, is out here doing the lord’s work—saving people from wasting their money on used car disasters. This time, the spotlight (or firing squad?) is on the Land Rover Defender. Now, is it a design icon? Absolutely. Park it anywhere and people will assume you’re adventurous, wealthy, and possibly lost. But […] The post And Australia Says: Mate, Don’t Buy A Used Land Rover Defender appeared first on Daily Car Blog | The World's Best Original Carblog.
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BMW XM
Does only the second-ever bespoke M car leave us excited about the future, or longing for the past? The BMW XM is the division’s first bespoke car since the mid-engined M1 of 1978 and one that M CEO Frank van Meel says offers the best of X and the best of M. Hence the name.This is also M’s very first hybrid, giving a heady 644bhp and 590lb ft. A low-slung 29.5kWh battery grants an electric-only range of 55 miles. It feeds a 148bhp electric motor integrated into the ZF-built eight-speed automati [...]
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Driving the rattiest Ferrari on the road
Fortunately, the interior handle and door card on the driver’s side of Scott Chivers’ left-hook Testarossa spider is secure. Pull the handle on the passenger side and it comes off. I am driving Ratarossa, a Ferrari Testarossa well-known by the internet. The car derives its name from the ‘recycled automotive transport’ exemplified by rusty Type 2 VWs and is the ultimate expression of Scott’s philosophy. Its grey body is rough. The engine cover is barely secure, it’s been hit hard with the lowerin [...]
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Bentley Continental GT Speed
Bentley’s electrification effort finally takes in its core two-door GT coupé Exotic '2+2' sporting coupes hardly come any more different than the Bentley Continental GT and the Porsche 911, and yet Crewe seems to be following Stuttgart’s philosophy as it develops its modern luxury grand tourer into its third decade.Just as ‘all-new’ model generations of the Porsche can be considered in pairs (the 2004 ‘997’ being a technical development of the ‘996’, ditto the 2019 ‘992’ of the ‘991’), Continen [...]
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When Cosworth built its own F1 car - with four-wheel drive
Cosworth's engines dominated F1 in the 60s and 70s – but it also made its own unconventional race car Cosworth became famous the world over in the late 1960s as its Ford-funded ‘DFV’ V8 engine totally dominated Formula 1 – something it would continue to do throughout the 1970s. In fact, its final grand prix win didn’t come until 1983. It’s one of the most admirable of the many ‘blokes in a shed beat all the car industry giants’ stories Britain produced in the last century. It’s not well known, [...]
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Inside Rivian: the start-up teaching VW how to make better EVs
As an American EV start-up, Rivian is routinely – and predictably – compared to Tesla. But even a cursory glance at their respective pick-up trucks indicates the vastly differing approaches of the two firms. While the Tesla Cybertruck is unapologetically brash and wilfully confrontational, the Rivian R1T is infused with genuine warmth and charm. And while Elon Musk’s firm has delighted in disrupting the car industry, Rivian’s seemingly more conventional approach has attracted investment from the [...]
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