Posts Tagged ‘england’

Geneva ‘08 Preview: KTM to reveal details on X-Bow Dallara Series

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
Click to view in our high-resolution image gallery Customers have been anxiously awaiting the delivery of their track-ready X-Bows, and with pre-orders growing by the day, KTM plans to reward the first 1000 buyers with the special-edition Dallara Series.The limited edition model, as we reported prev......

Honda ordered to pay out in racism lawsuit

Saturday, December 8th, 2007
Kalmesh Shah moved to England from India in 2004, and started working for Honda six months after he arrived. Although he was put on a number of production lines without training, that wasn't the real problem. The real issue was that his supervisor abused him, calling him an "expletive" Indian, and h......

Tata expected to sign Memorandum on sale of Jaguar this month

Friday, December 7th, 2007
Ford and Tata are expected to sign a Memorandum of Understanding on the sale of Jaguar and Land Rover in late February or early March. Ford has reportedly agreed to continue supplying engines and components, and Tata to accept the pension arrangements. The final issue is Ford's discussions with Brit......

HiQ garage goes for Coolest Auto Repair Shop honors

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
click above for more images of the HiQ service centerAs some of us are pretty sharp with a wrench, we loathe taking our cars elsewhere for repairs. Most of the time, we want to watch the guy doing the work, and that's usually not possible so we end up chain-drinking burnt coffee in the waiting room.......

Tesla Motors may go public this year

Friday, November 30th, 2007
click above for more high-res pics of our first drive of the Tesla RoadsterIn the near future, you may be able to jump on the Tesla Motors bandwagon without coughing up $100k in spare change to finance a Roadster. Just a few days after receiving the first production vehicle to carry the Tesla name, ......

Elon Musk takes delivery of first production Tesla Roadster

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Last Friday, Tesla chairman Elon Musk took delivery of the first production Roadster, which carries the name P1 (Production vehicle 1). The black coupe was flown in from Hethel, England, where all Teslas are being built alongside the Roadster's cousin, the Lotus Elise. When the Roadster arrived at t......

Dragonslayer: Renault rolls out the Twingo Extreme

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
The Twingo still won't take you to mythical Silene, but the UK gets its own specially pimped version of the entry-level Twingo called the "Extreme." Think of it as a Tercel Blackhawk en français, s'il vous plaît. The Twingo Extreme consists of mostly graphics for the exterior, though there's a few......

That’s the Ticket! Crowd cheers as Veyron gets parking fine

Saturday, November 17th, 2007
In some countries, folks cheer at the sight of an exotic supercar, while in others they assume the driver is a (expletive deleted). In which camp would you think England falls? We'd have hoped the former, but the crowd has spoken, and they're saying otherwise. When an evidently obscenely wealthy dri......

Dream Job: Bentley launches online employment portal

Monday, November 5th, 2007
Rather than spend your day looking up "gonnectigizoink" at Wikipedia, a better use of the internet might be to find a job. The problem is that it's just so hard to find anything that matches our niche skillset. Bentley is looking for more global candidates to fill their open positions, and has launc......

Ferrari Approved program launches in UK

Monday, November 5th, 2007
While repeatedly denying the existence of an upcoming entry-level Ferrari, company executives have stated that the real entry-level Ferrari is a used Ferrari. To back that up, the company's outfit in the UK has established the Ferrari Approved program to certify second-hand Prancing Horses.The progr......