SMMT electric avenue of dreams
It’s green for go The green flash on UK number plates is going to appear on more pure battery vehicles cars this year than ever before and some of the cars behind the plates are not run of the mill models but bursting with performance. potential. British...
EVs, more Government help needed
The Government must do more to get people to adopt EVs, says a Lords Committee. “If it fails to heed our recommendations the UK won’t reap the significant benefits of better air quality and will lag in the slow lane for tackling climate change,” said Baroness...
From the Chair: February 2024
This time next year the world could be a very different place. Donald Trump might well have just been inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States, while Sir Keir Starmer could still be enjoying a honeymoon period as our new Prime Minister. However, as 2023...
Electric Future?
JLR figured large in the UK business pages last month with the announcement that from 2025 the company would build only EVs. The man delivering this news was JLR’s new CEO Thierry Bolloré, who until October 2019 was CEO at Renault, no stranger to electric cars. Also...
From the Chair: February 2021
Journalists and PRs in the motoring world share their love of cars and that has been severely tested over the last 12 months. Jobs have gone, people have gone, plans shelved and events cancelled, including our own WGMW PR Driving Day 2020. Some...
BMW announces electric SUV (at last)
The big surprise about BMW’s press announcement last month was not its new iX, but that a battery-powered SUV had taken so long to emerge from Munich. It is easy to forget, but with the i3 launched in 2013, BMW was one of the first major manufacturers to produce an...
1999 Nissan Skyline GT-R sells at the Iconic Auctioneers NEC Classic Motor Show sale.
1994 Renault Clio Williams sells at the Iconic Auctioneers Classic Motor Show.
1979 Volkswagen Mk1 Golf GTi at the Iconic Auctioneers NEC Classic Motor Show auction
