Daily Archives: July 19, 2012

Land Rover: only happy when it rains

July 19, 2012   simon   No comments

Working in marketing at Land Rover gives you a strange view of the world: every autumn they pray for a really bad winter and now they are pointing to the floods as proof that Land Rovers are the essential choice. For the last couple of years, they have run big campaigns in the run-up to winter reminding people of the chaos snow can cause. It has certainly served them well: we spoke to one Land Rover dealer in the Cotswolds who said that people had been coming in during the snow of 2010 and refusing to leave until they had been sold a Land Rover – any Land Rover.
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New Honda CR-V announced

July 19, 2012   simon   No comments

An all-new Honda CR-V has been announced today, with the new car going on sale in October.Unusually for a new car, it is slightly smaller than the outgoing model. It is 5mm shorter and 300mm lower, but a lower floor means luggage space has actually gone up by 148 litres to 1648 litres. Interior space is also slightly better and the new CR-V has one of Honda’s clever rear seat folding systems (first seen on the Jazz). This one enables the both the squab and the backrest to fold down with a single movement.
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TVR: gone for good

July 19, 2012   simon   No comments

A report in Autocar says that TVR owner Nikolai Smolensky has ruled out going back into car manufacturing. Smolensky bought TVR in 2004 in controversial circumstances – and he became steadily more controversial until he abandoned the UK in 2006, leaving some unanswered questions.
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Dancers more likely to speed – allegedly

July 19, 2012   simon   No comments
A report by Tiger.co.uk, a car insurance comparison site, says that dance teachers and choreographers are the professions most likely to commit a driving offence.It analysed 270,000 recent car insurance quotes, examining the relationship between 313 different occupations, average annual mileage and the number of motorists with driving convictions.

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Which? says petrol cars may be cheaper to run than diesels

July 19, 2012   simon   No comments

The consumer organisation, Which? says the overall running costs of petrol cars may be lower than their diesel equivalents.This year is set to be the first in which diesel cars will make up more than half the new car market. However, a Which? comparison of diesel and petrol versions of six popular car models has found that petrol engines can often be the more cost effective choice for drivers covering a typical annual mileage.
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