Automotive Journal

Car donation makes up the practice of turning over no-longer-wanted cars and trucks to charitable establishments. In the U.S.A., charitable …

Is the federal government determined to have another bridge disaster like what happened in Minneapolis earlier this year? That would seem to be the case. MSNBC explains in a detailed article that the government has allowed …

Interesting piece in Autocar with a pic of a baby Rolls Royce that is under development. Bentley’s Continental GT success must have been eyed with a little envy in Munich/Goodwood. Some sharing with the 7 Series makes sense.

General Motors Corp.’s chief financial officer Fritz Henderson told the Associated Press that car prices may rise because of increased prices on raw materials, increased technology costs and fuel regulations from the government.

Fritz …

Hearing about the clean diesels struggle for initial market acceptance in the US reminds me very much of the situation …

Today’s Financial Times carries an interview with Jaguar head of design Ian Callum that leads on the fact that he’s nice and relaxed about the prospect of the firm’s ownership transferring from Ford to Tata. No great surprise there. Even if he felt differently, which I doubt, he’s hardly likely to voice those doubts publicly.
However, buried near the bottom of the article in the pink ‘un is this little gem:
‘He disclosed that, in spite of Jaguar management denials at the time, the X-Type small Jaguar – sales of which have fallen far below expectations – was essentially designed in Detroit …

The Audi R8 is the Robb Report’s choice for Car of the Year for 2008. It’s a fast, lightweight vehicle with a V-8 engine. Audi is planning to sell about 200 of the luxury vehicles in the U.S. this year. Autoblog reports that the voting was very close.

It was apparently “the closest voting in the award’s recent history,” which is not hard to understand based on the depth of the field. The stupendous machinery trumped by the R8 includes the …

Over at PSA Peugeot Citroen CEO Christian Streiff is well aware that introducing more upscale products helps the whole group become more profitable. For Peugeot, the 308 RCZ two-seater production concept is a clue. It will be a vital statement of brand intent when the production version goes on sale later this year. It will have to be very good to compete with the likes of the Audi TT, but there …

The trouble with the web is that you can find yourself going off at tangents finding connections that take you along way from your starting point. I’ll start from the end and work back.
Red Dwarf’ is a cult comedy programme on TV made a fair few years ago that I find quite amusing (a sci-fi based adventure of one bloke, a hologram, a …

I’ve received an interesting response today from John Storey in South Africa in response to a blog item way back in the …