Saturday, March 22, 2014

SEAT Leon takes the hotly contested Best Lower-Medium category award in the Fleet Awards

Prize handed over at prestigious Fleet News awards in London’s Grosvenor House Hotel Fleet News calls the Leon “bang on the fleet button” The new SEAT Leon has taken the Best Lower-Medium Car prize at the annual Fleet News awards in London. The award marks the Leon out as the most outstanding medium-size ... Continue reading

TV star Melanie Sykes takes delivery of new Abarth 500C

All the performance of an Abarth 500? Or all the freedom of a convertible Fiat 500? That was the choice TV presenter Melanie Sykes thought she was facing. So when she discovered that the Abarth 500 was available in 500C convertible form, offering small car performance with the thrill of wind-in-the-hair motoring in one ... Continue reading

Annual awards names Audi, Vauxhall and SEAT among top performers

Extension of Sophus3 and What Car? Connect project to decipher buyers’ virtual journey Sophus3 and What Car? Connect have jointly hosted the UK Top Digital Performer 2014, an event celebrating the car manufacturers with the most effective digital performance over the last 12 months. The online consumer behaviour s ... Continue reading

For Britain & For The Hell Of It

Four of the National Motor Museum’s iconic Land Speed Record cars, the 350hp and 1,000hp Sunbeams, Golden Arrow and Bluebird CN7, which reflect the success of British record-breakers between the 1920s and 1960s, feature in an inspiring new multi-media display For Britain & For The Hell Of It, opened yesterday (20t ... Continue reading

Estate is Not the Car to Impress

London, March 2014 – A new study from Europcar, the leader in car hire services in Europe, reveals that the practical estate car, while perfect for lots of jobs and moving stuff around, is definitely not the car of choice to create a lasting impression on a first date. Just 1% of respondents to the Europcar resear ... Continue reading

Fleet News 2014 awards the Peugeot 208 its ‘Best Small Car 2014’ beating other sector challengers

208 is PEUGEOT’s most popular car - available in a variety of economical petrol and diesel engines PEUGEOT also recently won the European Car of the Year with the new 308 Hatchback and SW The PEUGEOT 208 – the Company’s best-selling car – has won the Fleet News 2014 ‘Best Small Car’ accola ... Continue reading

Honda announces the new NM4 Vultus

Honda announces the new NM4 Vultus, a ground-breaking machine inspired by futuristic machines seen in the anime and manga television and film styles, known collectively as “Japanimation”. Created by a young design team who remained true to their original concept at every stage through to production, the NM4 V ... Continue reading

Toyota ME.WE Concept Car Nominated For Designs Of The Year Award

A Toyota concept car conceived to challenge traditional thinking about vehicle design and engineering has been put forward for a prestigious design honour. ME.WE, a highly adaptable, no-frills model developed in a ground-breaking collaboration between architect and designer Jean-Marie Massaud and ED2, Toyota’s Eur ... Continue reading

First Pure-Electric Bus Pilots in Turkish Market

ANKARA, Turkey--This week Mayor Mileh Gökçek of the Turkish capital – Ankara addressed the media and citizens of his city during a ceremony celebrating the launch of an electrified transportation pilot program. “Electric buses do not harm the environment. One bus reduces the equivalent carbon-dioxide co ... Continue reading

Audi presents technology, innovations, design of R18 e-tron quattro

Ingolstadt/Le Mans, March 21, 2014 – With a unique presentation Audi will be unveiling the technology, the innovations and the graphics of the new Audi R18 e-tron quattro at Le Mans on March 25, starting at 13.15 CET. Escorted by a police escort, Le Mans record winner Tom Kristensen will be driving the diesel hybr ... Continue reading