HAPPY CHRISTMAS AND BEST WISHES FOR 2022 from the Wheels-Alive team, to all our readers, contributors and people/firms who have helped keep us on the road through this year, turbulent for everyone! Thanks for your support. Kim (Kim Henson, creator and proprietor, Wheels-Alive) … [Read more...]
News & Views
Our take on what’s been happening in the world of motoring
We appreciate that these days there are vast quantities of motoring news items freely available to all, from huge numbers of global sources. It would be impossible to bring them all to you through these pages – so we are not even going to try!
Instead, we will include selected motoring-related stories which we feel will be of interest. Depending on the item, we hope that they will also inform, encourage, entertain and provoke further thought!
Each item will be dated, and as new stories arrive, older posts will be archived chronologically.
Wellhouse Leisure Toyota Campervan competition raises huge sum for BBC Children in Need 2021 appeal
Wellhouse Leisure's Toyota Proace Matino campervan helped to raise more than £574,000 for this year's BBC Children in Need Appeal... The campervan prize package in the ‘text-to-win’ prize draw for BBC Children in Need’s 2021 Appeal, including a Toyota Proace Matino campervan by Wellhouse Leisure, raised £574,030. The ‘text to win’ campervan prize package prize draws for BBC Children … [Read more...]
British Motor Museum invites you to meet the team in their ‘Factor us In’ exhibition
Evening event at the British Motor Museum on Tuesday 18th January 2022 showcases the 'Factor Us In' team and characters... all about the U.K.'s motor industry and its history. The British Motor Museum is to host an exclusive evening for visitors to join the ‘Factor Us In’ exhibition team and delve deeper into the history of the West Midlands motor industry. This special evening takes place on 18 … [Read more...]
A Tale of Two McLarens
Ant Henson test drives the McLaren GT back to back with its big brother, the 720S, to find out if it's a true grand tourer, a full-on supercar, or something else entirely... (Words copyright Ant Henson. Photographs, as individually credited, copyright Ant Henson, and from McLaren). Picture the scenario. You’ve a couple of hundred thousand pounds burning a hole in your pocket. You’re keen to … [Read more...]
VW embraces alternative low emission ‘diesel’ fuels and continues development of internal combustion engines
Volkswagen acknowledges that alternative synthetic fuels for diesel engines can produce very low CO2 emissions, and the company says that it is continuing to develop internal combustion engines... At Wheels-Alive we have long been saying that it is not internal combustion engines per se that produce harmful emissions, but the fuels (usually fossil-based) on which they run. VW tells … [Read more...]
Fuel prices need to drop now – says the RAC
The RAC implores fuel station operators to lower forecourt fuel prices as wholesale costs have fallen... They say: "Petrol and diesel price cut must come this week after further drop in wholesale costs". RAC warns retailers will lose ‘all credibility’ with drivers if they don’t pass on wholesale savings at the pumps Average retailer margin stands at 19p a litre for petrol and 15p for … [Read more...]
Kia goes from strength to strength…
Kia's Generation Game Changer – by Robin Roberts (and Miles Better News Agency). For a generation of motorists it’s difficult to think that Kia Motors UK never existed and for others it’s hard to believe how far they have come in 30 years. Entering UK showrooms in 1991 with the rebadged Mazda 121 selling as the Kia Pride, the Korean brand registered 1,800 sales, but that was just a ripple of … [Read more...]
Wheels-Alive takes a look at… Crown Oil and their HVO fuel
Kim Henson reports on a low emissions alternative to mineral/fossil based diesel fuel... There is (almost) universal agreement that our planet is in trouble in terms of global warming and climate change, and that emissions resulting from the burning of fossil-derived fuels are unhelpful. Reducing ‘carbon footprints’ is therefore desirable and indeed necessary. The more widespread use of … [Read more...]
‘No Time To Die’ Land Rover Defender on display at The British Motor Museum
'No Time To Die' Land Rover Defender can be seen at The British Motor Museum... James Bond fans are in for a treat as one of the Land Rover Defenders from the latest Bond film ‘No Time to Die’ is now on display at the British Motor Museum. The film, which stars Daniel Craig in his fifth and final Bond film, aired in cinemas on 30 September. One of three Defender V8s used in the high octane … [Read more...]
Toyota Proace Matino campervan to be won in competition in aid of BBC Children in Need 2021 Appeal
Hurry – closes tonight – 28th November 2021... 'Text-to-win' competition for BBC Children in Need 2021 Appeal features the star prize of an electric Toyota Proace Matino campervan by Wellhouse Leisure (and worth £65,000)... We are told: An electric Toyota Proace Matino campervan by Wellhouse Leisure, worth £65,000, is part of a ‘text-to-win’ competition for BBC Children in Need’s 2021 … [Read more...]
The Motor Ombudsman Garage Star and Service Star Awards 2021
Kim says: "It is great to share some heartening good news from The Motor Ombudsman as they announce the winners of their National Garage Star Awards". Nearly 1,100 customers submitted a nomination for an individual team member or business accredited to one or more of The Motor Ombudsman’s four Motor Industry Codes of Practice, who they felt had gone above and beyond to assist … [Read more...]
Are we nearly there yet with electric cars? Channel 4 ‘Dispatches’ thinks not…
You may be interested in watching Channel 4 'Dispatches' programme, 'The Truth About Electric Cars' at 8.30pm tonight (22nd November 2021). Primarily this will be looking at the state of the U.K.'s electric vehicle infrastructure, plus some aspects of some of the vehicles... The information/views expressed below are from Channel 4. They tells us: Some hybrids are worse than diesel cars … [Read more...]
Latest Kia Sportage launched in the U.K. – and EV9 SUV Concept unveiled in the U.S.A.
KIA WHEELS OUT ALL-NEW FIFTH GENERATION SPORTAGE SUV THIS WEEK. By David Miles (Miles Better News Agency). (All Sportage photographs copyright David Miles; EV9 photographs from Kia). Kia UK hosted the Western Group of Motoring Writers this week in The Cotswolds to test drive their latest range of new and updated models ranging from the small Picanto up to the new EV6 all electric flagship … [Read more...]
Adapted car fleet for disabled drivers stolen from charity
Wessex Driveability charity team devastated by the heartless theft of their entire fleet of adapted cars for disabled drivers, from their Southampton base... Wessex DriveAbility, part of the Driving Mobility network of assessment centres, has been left unable to help disabled drivers regain independence following the theft of its specialist fleet of modified vehicles. Wessex … [Read more...]
New car sales in October 2021 – News
Volkswagen dominated UK sales in October and scooped 8.52% of sales, writes Robin Roberts. BMW, Kia, Mercedes-Benz and Audi all out performed the rest and left Ford and Vauxhall, traditional leaders, trailing behind.Regionally, Wales bucked the trend and grew new car sales last month, the only part of the UK market to do so. In Wales, 3,946 new cars were registered last month an improvement of … [Read more...]
Five years of The Motor Ombudsman
The Motor Ombudsman celebrates its first five years as Ombudsman for the automotive sector... The 1st of November 2016 marked the first time that the automotive sector had ever had its own Ombudsman, and that motorists had access to an entirely free-of-charge, fully impartial and in-house dispute resolution service from beginning to end The primary role of The Motor Ombudsman … [Read more...]
British Motor Museum conference facilities gain ‘Silver’ accreditation
Eco-focused conference facilities win 'Silver' award for the British Motor Museum... The British Motor Museum is the first Museum to be accredited with ‘Silver’ status by Greengage ECOsmart, the accreditation programme which recognises and supports eco-friendly hotels and conference venues that meet certified standards of sustainability. Silver status is awarded to venues who have taken steps to … [Read more...]
MM Auto Services in Dundee wins prestigious Customer Service award
At the 2021 Servicesure 'Autocentre of the Year Awards', the Customer Service trophy, sponsored by The Motor Ombudsman, has been won by the Dundee-based MM Auto Services. The firm's work in the local community is also acknowledged... MM Auto Services wins the Motor Ombudsman-sponsored Servicesure Customer Service trophy at the 2021 Servicesure ‘Autocentre of the Year’ awards It is … [Read more...]
Fuel for Thought – The headlong move to electric cars may be a mixed blessing…
Kim Henson considers the implications – and alternative fuels for vehicles with internal combustion engines... At Wheels-Alive we have always felt that the future of transport, in relation to environmental and global warming aspects, needs to be thought-about and planned very carefully and in a 'big picture' manner. This seldom happens and successive British governments of all political … [Read more...]
Has Britain got sufficient manufacturing capacity to produce enough batteries?
New opportunities... and new worries... as Britain moves headlong towards electric propulsion. Robin Roberts elaborates: Britain’s car-makers and component suppliers have new opportunities as the race speeds up towards a future of pure electric vehicles, delegates to the annual Autolink Conference in Cardiff were told. On the day that the UK Government announced a £620 Million grant … [Read more...]
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