This is a car that we at Motoring Weekly hadn’t heard of before - the Vemac RD180, the first in series of sports cars that should have included the RD200, RD320 and RD350. It appears that only the first two were built in limited numbers and the last two never made it to full production. In effect the RD180 was a design concept prototype and the styling was a mix of Porsche, … [Read more...]
Toyota Century GRMN
Here at Motoring Weekly we like to keep an eye on unusual or one-off vehicles that appear out of the blue. Late last year there was a flurry of reports about the Toyota Century GRMN. The Toyota Century is the ultra limousine built exclusively for the Japanese Domestic Market (JDM). It has had only three generations in over fifty years and is a true low volume vehicle - only … [Read more...]
Solaris Elettra
Back towards the end of the time when Motoring Weekly was a podcast (at the end of 2010), we wrote a small article about a new vehicle called the Solaris Elettra - another vehicle that was supposed to be manufactured in Africa. What happened to this vehicle? The plan was simple - build an electric car in Ethiopia. The company that thought up the idea was Freestyle PLC, a … [Read more...]
The Venturi Antarctica
Here at Motoring Weekly, we have been following the progress of Venturi, the French manufacturer of sports cars and latterly more technically advanced road and race cars. They started back in the early 1980s developing a low volume sports car based on a VW Golf drivetrain. In recent years, they have been quiet pioneers in the electric car industry unlike companies such as … [Read more...]
Mahindra Marazzo
A while back, Motoring Weekly wrote an article about Pininfarina, the storied Italian design house, being bought by Mahindra and Mahindra from India. Pininfarina had been working with them for a while before the acquisition. Now Mahindra have launched a new vehicle in their home market that has been designed and engineered by a truly global team. The Marazzo is a people … [Read more...]