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...]
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...]
Austin Gipsy
I saw an old Austin Gipsy recently and it reminded me very much of a series 1 Land Rover or Willys Jeep. There is no mystery around that - they were all designed for a purpose. With the Willys Jeep and the Land Rover developed in the 1940s, the Austin Gipsy was a later entrant to the market - and was designed to be a direct competitor to the Land Rover as the Jeep (built by … [Read more...]
Wearable Technology Meets the Auto Industry
I have written several articles that shows the connection between consumer and automotive technology. The most obvious must be the use of lithium based batteries that started in consumer devices such as laptops and with greater power and length of use, have now been fitted to electric cars. Another example is Bluetooth, which has simplified how mobile devices share content … [Read more...]
British Motor Corporation
The British car industry has been one of massive consolidation over the years until only a handful of manufacturers were left. It is probably similar to the American industry as both countries technically had a handful of big players. In the US the industry has been dominated by GM, Ford and Chrysler who owned all the main brands, and in Britain it was the British Motor … [Read more...]