Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has announced their plans to contribute to a reported GBP100 million new research and development facility based at Warwick University. The National Automotive Campus (NAIC), as it will be called, is set to be opened by 2016 and it is here that JLR aims to create the next generation of vehicle technology.
The next time you rent a car in California, it could be an Electric Vehicle (EV). In fact, it could be a Tesla S Performance as Hertz, the international rent-a-car company, is now offering the range-topping Tesla in a couple of its Californian locations.
Automology’s columnist, MAC, continues to weigh in on ‘greener’ alternatives.
Not a lot of people know this, but good old Henry Ford ran his cars on ethanol and Rudolf Diesel fired his namesake engine with peanut oil. So, how come both became addicted to ‘rock oil’? To put it simply, they both discovered that with a little refining, you got a better bang for your buck from the stored sunshine in petroleum products.
This week has seen some significant developments for X-1R in mainland China. After being invited to visit a major Chinese vehicle manufacturer, X-1R Malaysia, the headquarters for the Asian region, has been given the green light to supply products for their manufacturing division and chain of 4S service centres in China.
When a product is good, it has a special ability to be spread by word of mouth, more so in this internet decade; X-1R is an excellent example of this. X-1R receives numerous enquiries from all over the world, which…
Irv Gordon and his faithful traveling companion, a 1966 Volvo P1800, had already made their mark in the Guinness Book of Record. The Volvo registered the highest mileage ever for a non-commercial vehicle. Then, on 16 September 2013, Volvo confirms that the ‘couple’ had completed their 3 millionth mile together, an unprecedented achievement in the 100 years history of automotive manufacturing.