Toyota has kept its title of most valuable brand in a recent annual survey and report - the Kanter Millward Brown Top 100 Most Valuable Brands. It is the 12th time in fourteen years that Toyota has come out on top of all the car brands listed. However in the last few years, automotive marques have been overtaken by other brands in the valuation list. In 2017 there were six … [Read more...]
German Manufacturers Charged with Collusion
Well this is a damaging blow to the “vorsprung durch technik” aka progress through technology line spun by one German manufacturer. The EU has expanded on the VW Group emissions testing scandal by laying more charges against VW, Audi and Porsche along with BMW and Mercedes-Benz, in other words, pretty much all of Germany’s mainstream manufacturers! In the original issue, … [Read more...]
The Mercedes-Benz Concept EQV
Motoring Weekly has written about the plans that Mercedes-Benz has to go electric with their EQ Series of vehicles. They have stated that they would like to get to 25% sales of their fleet being from the EQ range by 2025. They have also said that they want their EQ vehicles to look different from other Mercedes-Benz models which seems to be a strange idea. What is wrong with … [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...]
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...]