Episode 196 covers the Combined Sports Car Association (CSCA) & Triumph Sports Owners Association (TSOA) track day. On the 14th June I went down to One Raceway near Goulburn to meet with the drivers and watch some track action. I recorded six interviews with Triumph, Maserati and Jaguar owners during the day whilst watching the track action - clockwise and … [Read more...]
Ep 171 Geoffrey Bott – Classic Car Rally Pioneer
I caught up via Zoom with Geoffrey Bott, a pioneer in classic car rally events. He was the instigator behind the Repco Mountain Rally in the 90s, working closely with the Jaguar Drivers Club to develop and run the events as Clerk of the Course before becoming a competitor - and winner - himself. Geoffrey has had decades of experience in organising and competing in classic car … [Read more...]
Report Says Tata Would Sell Jaguar Land Rover
There was an interesting article in Bloomberg earlier in the year about Tata thinking about selling Jaguar Land Rover. Tata naturally denied the rumours however it is known that Jaguar will work with BMW on some electric vehicles. In today’s economic climate, it is sensible for many manufacturers to do joint work with their competitors - it helps spread the cost. Bloomberg … [Read more...]
Chargefox Partnership with Jaguar
A few weeks ago, Motoring Weekly wrote about JETCharge and their new charging network that they intend to roll out from Brisbane to Adelaide covering the major road on the east coast of Australia. This is a challenge that Better Place tried some years ago and failed, however the JETCharge concept not only has legs, it has backers and it is at a time when electric vehicle sales … [Read more...]
Jaguar Land Rover Wins Fight Against LandWind
One of the first articles we wrote after converting Motoring Weekly from a podcast into a written form was about the LandWind X7 and how it was a clone of the first series Range Rover Evoque. That was back in December 2014 and mistakenly called a Land Wing - it was still a pre-production model then. Now, over four years later, a Chinese Court has finally ruled that LandWind … [Read more...]