Daily Archives: March 23, 2012

French ultra-budget brand Dacia almost here…

March 23, 2012   Sean

Dacia,Renault’s budget brand, is 100 days away from launching in the UK. It’s a timely reminder, given yesterday’s budget, that cheap French motoring is very close at hand.And we do mean cheap: buyers will be able to bag a Duster 4×4 from £12,500. For comparison, the cheapest four-wheel drive version of the Ford Kuga is the 2.0-litre diesel Zetec, at £23,000.We don’t know a lot about Dacia here in the UK, but here’s what a confident Renault press release says:
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10th birthday bash for Avantime French flop

March 23, 2012   Sean

A birthday party is being held at Coventry Motor Museum for the failed Avantime executive coupé, one of tthe biggest flops in car company history. How strange.

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Kids would rather drive a tractor than the Batmobile

March 23, 2012   Sean

A survey by Lego has revealed that more kids dream of driving a tractor, a train or a 4×4 than a supercar…or the Batmobile. The poll of 1,300 kids aged three to ten years old, on Legoland’s Facebook page, showed that 28% wanted to drive a tractor or a train more than anything else, while just 6% chose a supercar – the same percentage that chose the Batmobile.According to these results, being a bus driver is almost twice as cool as being Batman, with 11% saying they’d most like to drive a double decker.
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Budget 2012: the car industry’s response

March 23, 2012   Sean

Following the news that the motorist will get hammered a little more by George Osborne, most of the major motoring groups and publicity-seeking companies have had their say.We all knew what was coming in the 2012 budget, really, but that hasn’t stopped the outpouring of indignation. That said, some groups have reacted positively. Here are some of the comments:
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