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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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Update on the Sunbeam 1000hp engine rebuild at the National Motor Museum

Alastair — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 08:04:28 +0000

Engineers at the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu are working hard to bring one of the classic cars in their collection back to life – the extraordinary record-breaking Sunbeam 1000hp. See: The car and the story so far – Back in January the museum began fund-raising for the project. Everything on Sunbeam 1,000hp was bespoke, […]

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Where is Coal Scuttle? Aka the first Aston Martin

Alastair — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 07:32:56 +0000

The search is on for a priceless piece of British luxury car brand Aston Martin’s earliest history. A1 was the very first car to be built by Bamford & Martin Ltd, the company that would quickly become Aston Martin. Nicknamed ‘Coal Scuttle’ because of its simple styling that was, to many, redolent of the ubiquitous […]

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