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A New Fragrance from Rolls-Royce

Alastair — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 19:18:11 +0000

Is the Rolls-Royce brand moving into the perfume market? No, but it is introducing Rolls-Royce Scent, an “immersive fragrance concept” for its cars. We know how Rolls-Royce Motor Cars are obsessed with detail and perfection, but tell me if you think this is taking the customer experience to yet another level of finesse, or going […]

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Hagerty Festival of the Unexceptional celebrates 10-years of mundane motors

Alastair — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 14:34:32 +0000

Hagerty’s Festival of the Unexceptional (FOTU) celebrates its 10-year anniversary at Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire in July 2024. UPDATE 01/05/2025: The festival is back at Grimsthorpe Castle on Saturday 26th July 2025. Tickets are on sale now. I didn’t know there was such a thing, but I love the way it gently sends itself up! Festival […]

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Funding for the Sunbeam 1000 hp restoration reaches a milestone

Alastair — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 16:16:31 +0000

The National Motor Museum at Beaulieu says that fundraising for its Sunbeam 1000hp restoration, began last March and has now reached £50,000, putting it well on the path to raising the £300k needed to take the car to Daytona in the USA for the centenary of its record-breaking 200 mph attempt in 2027. The Sunbeam’s […]

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Review: Aston Martin Museum

Alastair — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 13:59:01 +0000

The Aston Martin Heritage Trust museum is home to some classic, and beautiful, examples of auto engineering excellence. The museum tells the story of the brand’s luxury sports cars and grand tourers – their amazing engine design, development and manufacturing, and their motor racing history. I went last week to take a look. The History […]

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Robot Car Parking at Gatwick Airport

Alastair — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 14:01:14 +0000

Gatwick will be the first UK airport to trial robots that valet park passengers’ cars. The airport signed a framework contract with Stanley Robotics on Tuesday, to set up a trial later this year. The trial will run from the second half of 2019 to early 2020 and passengers will simply leave their car in […]

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Car Tech in Saxony

Alastair — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 12:27:51 +0000

Perfect for petrol-heads! Saxony in Germany is highlighting new developments at two of its automobile visitor attractions for 2018. They suggest 2018 is the right time to explore Saxony as a place where automobile history was written, by heading first to the small town of Zwickau, which celebrates its 900th birthday next year. More recently […]

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