Aston Martin’s President of Americas Laura Schwab will deliver the keynote speech at Autocar’s Great British Women in the Car Industry – Rising Stars event, which will be held in London on 19 June. Schwab was appointed Aston Martin’s first ever female President of Americas in 2015, having joined the firm from Jaguar Land Rover, […]
Life-Saving LR Disco Joins Red Cross
A unique lifesaving Land Rover Discovery has just entered active service with the Red Cross emergency response fleet. The bespoke Discovery will provide eyes in the sky with a special drone and go-anywhere wheels on the ground, as an emergency mobile command centre with the Austrian Red Cross disaster response teams. The vehicle, developed from […]
Octane 2017 Award Winners Revealed
On Thursday 16th November 2017, 300 of the world’s biggest classic and performance car enthusiasts came together in London to celebrate the winners of the Octane Awards 2017 – the accolade of Car of the Year being won by the 2017 Jaguar XKSS Continuation. Now in their seventh year, the awards celebrate the continued growth […]
New Land Rover Disco Awarded Scottish Car Of The Year 2017
The new Discovery has cemented its position as the best car to buy for the second time this year being billed as Scotland’s Car of the Year by the Association of Scottish Motoring Writers. The award follows the Discovery receiving Auto Express’s Car of the Year back in June. Winning both the SUV category and […]
Jaguar I-PACE eTROPHY
Jaguar are absolutely at the forefront of some of the latest electric car technology. To showcase this forward thinking approach, Jaguar has introduced the I-PACE eTROPHY. This is a one manufacturer race series that will act as support for the FIA Formula E championship. It will take place at the same weekends, on the same race […]
Autocar Reviews Range Rover Velar
Jaguar Land Rover produce some absolutely fantastic cars. What perhaps was missing from the Range Rover sub-marque however was a vehicle bigger than the Evoque but smaller than the full fat Range Rover. As a result, we have the absolutely fantastic looking Range Rover Velar. Granted, this is still an almost 2 tonne beast, but […]
Jaguar Land Rover SVO Project 8
Jaguar already offers some really rather quick cars. The SVO (Special Vehicle Operations) department however felt that the Jaguar XE range needed something even more performance biased. To this end, the new XE SV Project 8 offers the most powerful, agile and extreme Jaguar ever. With the most highly tuned version of Jaguar Land Rover’s […]
Simply Land Rover – Beaulieu 2017
A British Army Air Corps’ fully operational Land Rover equipped as a camouflaged mobile radio unit will be on show as part of an impressive line-up at Beaulieu’s Simply Land Rover on Sunday 25th June. Now in its fifth year, the celebration of one of the oldest and best-loved off-roading marques attracts every derivative of […]
UK Car Industry Shows Strength At Paris
Eight of the UK’s major car brands united today at the Eiffel Tower in Paris on the eve of the key international motor show to demonstrate the diversity and quality of cars currently produced in the UK. Senior executives from British-based manufacturers, including Aston Martin, BMW MINI, Honda, Jaguar Land Rover, McLaren, Nissan, Toyota and Vauxhall, were joined by Mark Garnier MP, the British Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for International Trade, to […]
Europe Key For Industry Success
The UK motor industry has today restated its view that staying in the European Union is best for its business and best for British jobs, just ahead of the referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), which represents the UK automotive industry, wants to ensure there […]