Volkswagen has given the go-ahead to a new €2bn (£1.65bn) factory in Wolfsburg where it will build its Trinity flagship EV. Given the green light by Volkswagen Group’s board of management, the new factory will be located close to ...
Cabbies in London are queuing at ranks rather than driving in search of passengers because of spiralling diesel costs. Steve McNamara, general secretary of the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association, said “extortionate” fuel prices are having a major impact on the ...
Ford has announced a new addition to its Mustang line-up of cars with a new California Edition. Available in convertible form only, the California Edition starts from £52,105 and features a variety of retro-inspired design touches. In fact, the California ...
The Volkswagen Taigo has become one of the latest cars to achieve a five-star safety rating as part of Euro NCAP’s first set of results for 2022. The crossover was joined by its Polo stablemate with the five-star award, helped ...
Elon Musk claims Tesla could have built an electric vehicle with a 600-mile range a year ago, but doesn’t think the extra weight of the batteries is worth it. The South African entrepreneur took to Twitter to respond to a ...
Hyundai will introduce 17 new electric vehicles while aiming to sell 1.87 million EVs annually by 2030. Announced as part of the firm’s Investor Day forum, 11 of these models will be assigned to Hyundai, with six going to Genesis. ...
Polestar has hinted at a new electric roadster with the unveiling of its stylish ‘O2’ concept car. The Swedish performance electric car firm says the concept car ‘redefines sports roadsters for the electric age’. Using the design language of the ...
Japan’s Honda and Sony are joining forces to produce an electric vehicle by 2025. The project aims to bring together Honda’s expertise in mobility development, technology and sales with Sony’s imaging, telecommunication, network and entertainment expertise. A union of traditionally ...
Volkswagen’s updated T-Roc has gone on sale, with prices starting from £25,000. The revisions – which have been applied to both five-door and cabriolet models – tweak the front-end design of the T-Roc with new headlights which seem to blend ...
A smart motorway campaigner whose husband died in a crash on the M1 has said she is determined to challenge a decision that National Highways will not face charges over his death. Claire Mercer was campaigning outside South Yorkshire Police ...
Skoda has announced that its new Fabia Monte Carlo is available to order now with prices starting from £20,925. The sporty addition to the Fabia range has been a mainstay of the line-up since 2011 and has now been added ...
Major car company Stellantis has announced that it will donate €1 million (£829m) to Ukrainian refugees and civilians. In a statement, Stellantis said it would make the donation through its foundation, providing humanitarian aid to support refugees and civilians displaced ...
Volvo has introduced a new single-motor version of its electric C40 Recharge while refreshing the design of its XC40 range. Sitting alongside the existing dual-motor variant, the new model combines a single motor with a 69kWh battery to deliver up ...
February marked yet another challenging month for the car industry. Though sales were up 15 per cent on lockdown-affected February 2020, they still lagged 25.9 per cent behind pre-pandemic levels. But there have been some glimmers of hope. The number ...
Vauxhall will use its classic Manta name for a purely electric car, the firm has announced. The original Manta wore the Opel badge, however, this new version – which will arrive ‘in the mid-decade’ – will be badged as ...
London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) will be expanded to cover the entire city under plans announced by mayor Sadiq Khan to cut pollution and congestion. Mr Khan has asked Transport for London (TfL) to consult on extending the scheme’s ...
Audi has announced a range of updates for its electric Q4 e-tron model that make it more appealing. One of the most important changes is faster charging, though this only applies to the larger battery sizes with a 76.6kWh capacity, ...
The vast majority of motorists would like to see speed cameras also used to check the tax, insurance and MOT status of passing vehicles, according to a new study. A survey of 2,000 motorists by road safety charity IAM RoadSmart ...
New electric cars are more likely to develop a fault than petrol and diesel models, a new survey suggests. A poll by consumer group Which? indicated that 31% of electric car owners reported a problem with their vehicle in its ...
Renault has introduced an exclusive new Rive Gauche trim level to its Captur line-up. Limited to just 800 units in the UK, the addition is named after the southern bank area of the River Seine in Paris. Aligned with top-spec ...
Thick fog is expected to create “difficult” driving conditions and potentially lead to flight delays in the South West and Wales. The Met Office issued a yellow weather warning for thick fog from 5am until 11am across the whole ...
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, countries around the world have been imposing sanctions and numerous companies have announced plans to stop doing business with the country. The car industry is a complex global web, with individual vehicle components being shipped ...
McLaren Automotive has teamed up with British artist Nat Bowen to create the Artura ‘art car’. The Artura is the firm’s latest supercar, which packs a twin-turbo 3.0-litre V6 petrol engine with an electric motor. This hybrid powertrain makes 671bhp ...
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has announced that it is pausing the delivery of its cars to Russia amid “trading challenges”. JLR sold 6,900 cars in Russia in 2021 and currently operates production sites across the globe, with UK-based plants in ...
Volvo has suspended the shipment of cars to Russia amid the country’s invasion of Ukraine. In an email statement sent to Reuters, the Swedish manufacturer said that it would be suspending shipments to the country until further notice. In ...
An investigation into new car delivery times has found that many car manufacturers are reluctant to go on record with how long customers can expect to wait. The car industry has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, which saw ...
Average fuel prices have reached the highest level on record following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, figures show. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said the average price of a litre of petrol at UK forecourts on Monday was ...
Nissan has announced a new hybrid engine will join the Juke line-up. The popular compact crossover’s range is expanding with the addition of the powertrain, which uses components from both Nissan and its Alliance partner Renault to bring extra performance ...
Toyota is suspending production at all 28 lines of its 14 plants in Japan starting on Tuesday, because of a “system malfunction” at a domestic supplier, the carmaker said. Public broadcaster NHK TV and other Japanese media said a major ...
The Formula 1: Drive to Survive series on Netflix has been one of the major sports documentary success stories in recent years. Before Liberty Media took control of F1 in 2017, the sport was seen as quite old fashioned, particularly ...
Britain’s first Zero Emission Zone – or ZEZ – will begin in Oxford on February 28, bringing with it a whole new set of charges for many petrol, diesel and hybrid cars. Launched as a pilot scheme to begin with, ...
Fisker has revealed its Ocean electric SUV in Europe for the first time at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Previously showcased at the Los Angeles motor show last year, the Ocean is expected to hit UK roads in the ...
Next month’s car sales forecast is proving difficult to predict, as many consumers could postpone car purchases to ensure it has the latest number plate. March and September are bumper months for car sales, because the next iteration of number ...
Petrol edged closer to the £1.50 milestone yesterday as motorists were hit with record prices at the pumps for the fourth time this week. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has seen the value of a barrel of oil increasing, with those ...
Morgan has added to its legacy of three-wheeled models with the introduction of the Super 3. Hand-built at the firm’s factory in Malvern, Worcestershire, the Super 3 arrives as Morgan’s first ‘clean sheet’ design since the Aero 8 of 2000. ...
British firm Lunaz has revealed its first ‘upcycled’ electric vehicle in the form of a refuse truck. Based at Silverstone, Lunaz is perhaps better known for converting classic cars to run on electric powertrains, but it has also turned its ...
Car production fell to its lowest January total in a decade despite an increase in the manufacture of electric vehicles, new figures show. Almost 68,800 cars left factories in January, down by 20% on a year ago and the worst ...
MG has teased a new electric hatchback that will be revealed in full later this year. Expected to be called MG 4, it will go into competition with the likes of the Volkswagen ID.3, but will likely be pitched ...
Nissan has created a new special edition version of its Micra – the Micra Kiiro. Limited to just 250 examples in the UK, the model joins the recently announced Juke Kiiro. Available to order now, prices for the Micra Kiiro ...
Motoring groups have warned that average petrol prices will soon jump above £1.50 per litre as a knock on effect of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Sources reported a new record high of an average of 149.5p per litre of ...