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Historic Sunbeam 1000hp restoration completed

Alastair — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:08:22 +0000

National Motor Museum engineers have successfully restored the World Land Speed Record breaker Sunbeam 1000hp car, in time for its planned 100th anniversary run at Daytona Beach in the USA next year. The restoration project has taken over three years, with many additional years of preparatory work. It has tested the Museum’s workshop team, led […]

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“Hey Google, can I park here?”

Alastair — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:41:21 +0000

At this week’s Google I/O conference, Volvo Cars and Google have been demonstrating ‘contextually aware driving experiences’ using the latest advancements in AI in Volvo’s EX60 SUV. Making use of the Google Gemini vehicle camera integrated in the EX60, Gemini can (with the driver’s permission) see and understand its surroundings from the perspective of the […]

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National Motor Museum Exhibition Now Open

Alastair — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:46:11 +0000

The National Motor Museum has opened its new exhibition gallery, Driven: Britain’s Motoring Story. The exhibition focuses on how Britain has changed over the decades, delving into the social and cultural impact of motoring. It features stories, artefacts and images to surprise, engage and inspire visitors, plus of course, vehicles from five eras of UK […]

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Škoda Museum opens Concept Car Gallery

Alastair — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:45:44 +0000

The Škoda Museum in Mladá Boleslav, Czechia, has opened a new gallery in the former car plant buildings, featuring 31 ‘concept cars’, design studies and prototypes from the late 1950s to the present day. The museum, which opened in 1995 in the original factory building and underwent a complete refurbishment in 2012, is now expanding […]

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More motor vehicles than ever on UK roads, and over a million of them are electric

Alastair — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 15:57:25 +0000

The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) has just published its latest annual statistics for vehicles registered in the UK, aka the UK 2024 motorparc* data. There are some interesting, if not entirely surprising, trends. In 2024 there were a record 42 million vehicles on UK roads, an increase of 1.4% on the previous […]

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Latest Alvis Lancefield Continuation Car is unveiled today in Japan

Alastair — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 15:07:01 +0000

The Alvis Car Company has delivered its latest continuation car, a beautiful art deco Lancefield, to Japan, where it’ll be unveiled at Automobile Council 2025 in Chiba City, today. What is a continuation car? A “continuation car” is a new vehicle built to the exact specifications of a historic model, using original blueprints and parts […]

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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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Cool Renault electric demo car hopes to break range records

Alastair — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:26:47 +0000

The Renault Filante Record 2025 is an electric demo car developed to maximise energy efficiency and set a new record for power consumption and range with an 87 kWh battery, i.e. the same capacity as on a standard Renault Scenic E-Tech car. You might think that’s a pretty easy target, given that the Scenic E-Tech […]

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Rétromobile – The Vintage Car Show with Parisian Style

Alastair — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 16:59:30 +0000

Classic and vintage car fans will be getting ready for next year’s Rétromobile in Paris in February. The annual Salon Rétromobile started in 1976 and is now one of the best-known collector car exhibitions in Europe, drawing around 130,000+ visitors, 450+ exhibitors and 500+ automobiles. It is held at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles […]

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Citroën P17 Half-Track

Alastair — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 11:52:37 +0000

You have to love this amazing car, the Citroën P17 Autochenille (‘caterpillar’ or in this case ‘half-track’). It is exactly the sort of thing I would fully expect to see Tintin driving across the Sahara in, wearing an arab headress and with Capt. Haddock floundering around in the back! The signage at the 24 Hour […]

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