Here are the top-10 most bought cars of the year
There are two Toyota Corolla sold every minute!
Most financed Supercar of 2019 is…
JBR Capital reveals the most financed supercars of the past year
You know, rich people don’t just rock up to luxury car showrooms with a briefcase full of money to buy the latest, most expensive exotica – well actually some do – but most need finance just like you and me. JBR Capital specialises in high-end vehicle financing and has revealed a few interesting trends from 2019.
Pickups & SUVs dominate US market
Sales of SUVs and pickups increase massively over past decade squeezing out saloons and hatchbacks
This shouldn’t really come as a surprise, but sales of trucks and SUVs have massively increased in United States of America over the past 10 years, whilst market share for saloons and hatchbacks has been dramatically shrunk. No wonder Ford of US is switching over entirely to SUVs (apart from Mustang – the world’s best-selling sportscar).
Classic Car market review 2019
Hagerty – Downturn for £150k+ cars; Modern Classics on the move
Hagerty – the classic car specialist for valuations and insurance – has just issued its end of year round-up and it doesn’t make great reading for collecters of medium to high-end cars.
Bentley’s new Flying Bees – the buzzing kind
Somebody ordered the wrong kind of ‘b’s?
It seems that when someone told someone else at Bentley to order some ‘flying bs’ it got misintepreted – because instead of the famous ‘flying b’ emblem, they now have 120,000 flying bees of the buzzing kind!
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2500th Electric Taxi just rolled off UK production line
They’ve already done the equivalent of 45 trips to the moon and saved 850,000 litres of fuel
Here’s some good car industry news for a change. The London EV Company (LEVC) has just announced the production of the 2500th Electric Taxi – celebrating with a special display at Trafalgur Square.
I reviewed the Taxi – read that here!
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What Ian Callum is doing next
New Design and Engineering firm set up by former Jaguar Design Boss
So much retirement! Legendary British car designer only left Jaguar about six weeks ago, and here is he spearheading a design and engineering firm bearing his name.
EVs? What EVs?
Car sales in Europe last month aren’t reflecting what the politicians are peddling
You’re not ready to save the planet just yet, according to JATO Dynamics’ report on the European Car Market in May. 1.44m vehicles were registered, 6.91m for the year so far – and not many were EVs.
Weird stuff customers bring to test drives!
Forget Snakes on a Plane, why is there a snake in the test car?!
A 12-foot snake, a mattress and a pair of parrots – just some of the things that customers brought along on test drives, UK’s used car dealers have revealed in a survey by CarGurus.co.uk.
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