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Trackside Brunch

August 16, 2009

Met up with long-time car industry expert and friend Denis Keenan at Silverstone today. Here’s a beautiful ’74 911 Carrera from the paddock. Rings a bell with me… We were meeting at a round of the British F3 championship with a VW race also on the programme. VW hospitality was the name of the game. [...]

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My new (old) 911

July 1, 2009

Despite all the talk of recession, some of us have never been so busy. I talk to a lot of people in the course of my work and, without recent exception, their workloads are all healthy, with folk spending money on cars and houses, companies bringing suspended projects back to life, more hiring than firing [...]

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Best Bib and Tucker – Autowired

May 26, 2009

Best Bib and Tucker A fairly reliable measure of success among motor traders is the car they choose to take home. Most independents will try to hold something moderately flash in stock, put a bit of a premium on it and be quite happy if it doesn’t sell for a few weeks, so they can [...]

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Bankruptcy Beckons

May 22, 2009

The US Government has finally accepted the inevitable and is preparing to put GM into bankruptcy protection next week, to complete a major restructuring. The American people will own over 50% of GM Gen II. The time taken to reach this point is both good and bad; at least it has given the European subsidiaries [...]

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Tycoon bids for Saab

May 17, 2009

A previous blog post spoke about Saab and a wish that one man with some vision would come to the fore with the financial clout to keep the unique manufacturer afloat. Seems like this might happen. A report in todays Times says that “Wall Street veteran” (what does this really mean) Ira Rennert is trying [...]

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Never-ending Numptiness

May 12, 2009

Cars have always been at the mercy of half witted legislation, starting with the red flag bearer required to walk in front of the invention designed to be faster than walking. The news that Europe and America are to fit engine noise generators to electric cars to protect blind people is no surprise.

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