Rack and Pinion Steering on cars is one of those inventions that appeared early on in the life of the automobile and was taken from another source. Many early components on cars started out life being used by other machines before being enhanced and evolving into something far more complex. The simplest explanation of how it works is that the steering column has a classical … [Read more...]
Maybach to Return
Maybach is scheduled to make a return to the market as an …. SUV! The market has seen a flurry of activity in recent years in the ultra luxury SUV market with Lamborghini building the Urus on the Audi Q8 platform, as did Bentley with the Bentayga. Rolls-Royce brought out the Cullinan, Aston Martin has their DBX heading towards the market and have relaunched the Lagonda marque … [Read more...]
More Ford VW Collaboration
At the recent auto show in Detroit, Ford and Volkswagen announced another collaborative tie-up. This comes at a time when Ford have announced some poor numbers and the proposed agreement could help both parties reduce costs. It is not the first time that the two companies have shared technology, platforms and other components - Motoring Weekly recently wrote about Ford using … [Read more...]
Will Opel Shift Jobs Rather Than Redundancies?
Several months ago Motoring Weekly wrote an article about potential job losses at Opel and that was a follow up to an update to the purchase of Opel by the PSA Group who own Peugeot and Citroen. Last month (September), PSA announced that they had found a way to get rid of jobs and therefore reduce costs in the Opel/Vauxhall division - they would hopefully transfer them to … [Read more...]
Mercedes-Benz EQC Range
Over the last few weeks Motoring Weekly has been discussing movements in the electric vehicle market. One article was about Faraday Future’s plans for production and how that was progressing in California and there were articles about Tesla, specifically about their delivery volumes that are now affecting buyers Federal Tax Credits. I made a comment about the fact that Tesla’s … [Read more...]