Just-Auto Archive: July, 2008

Diesels in the US
Prospects for diesels in the US are something that generates quite a bit of debate. How quickly can diesel share rise? What are the regulatory parameters? Which companies stand to gain? A report publi...
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Taking the car for a spin?
We've got a long weekend this weekend - Monday is a national holiday - and many of us will be hitting the road. Two bits of research caught my eye today. One suggests that urban dwellers need to get i...
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Skoda Fabia: it's a piece of cake
The best TV ads are the ones that do something you haven't seen before and do it in a way that sticks in your head. Skoda has turned out an ad in Britain for the new Fabia which has made quite an impa...
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Straight talking from Honda (Tokyo and Swindon)
I see Honda's boss, Mr Fukui, has been sounding off about exchange rates and the UK's position outside of the euro. We've heard this before. The high value of sterling must be hurting Honda on its shi...
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Hyundai in Colombia
Well, Hyundai in Colombia has now commented on its alleged 'support' to a paramilitary organisation there. The Hyundai importer in Colombia is now publicly saying that it was blackmailed on one occasi...
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Crazy Golf
Why did you climb Everest? Because it was there. Why did you shoe-horn a 6-litre Volkswagen 'W12' engine into a Golf engine bay? You can imagine a German engineer calmly answering, deadpan expression,...
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No lock at the gate then...
There's something almost unbearably sad about a factory where all human activity - beyond the final coup de grace of demolition - has ceased. I know change is a fact of life, that fashions change, the...
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Getting behind the (hydrogen) wheel
I was out in the Bedfordshire countryside yesterday, at Millbrook Proving Ground to be precise, for the annual motoring journalists' drive day event organised by the SMMT. It's always a useful day. Th...
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Vauxhall
Jeremy Clarkson has a bit of form on tearing into Vauxhalls - especially the Vectra. I wonder what Vauxhall's marketing people made of his treatment of the Vauxhall Corsa VXR in The Sunday Times this ...
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Well, what would you want to say?
We had a bit of local colour today from our man in Colombia, Juan Vargas. It would appear that the Hyundai importer down there may have been 'giving' cars to a paramilitary organisation. Mind you, thi...
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