Can you help us to get to the bottom of a crucial question? Is it cleaner, greener, and more environmentally friendly to replace your old car (let’s call ‘old’ 10 years+ for the sake of argument), with a new one? It’s pertinent, because a ‘scrapping’ scheme has just been launched in Germ...

Switzerland isn't a great place to feel poor so it seems unfortunate that the world's car bosses find themselves meeting in Geneva this week, at probably the auto industry's lowest point since the 1970s. The mid seventies was a terrible time for the car industry, as the makers of our mac...

No one appears to have told Infiniti that there’s a global financial crisis and that (apparently) the world now only wants to buy clean, economical city cars. Not that we’re saying a production version of the Infiniti Essence couldn’t be green(ish) you understand. Autopia is reporting that the...

  I spent a (very) long day on Tuesday at the 2009 auto salon in Geneva. Setting out to see all the major new unveils and concept cars was a tough job, but hey, someone had to do it! The key aim of the day was to try and gauge the mood of an auto industry which is currently up against the wall...

The new Citroen DS Inside - a concept preview of the first in a series of three new Citroen 'DS line' models A few months back, I penned a piece for Car Design News reviewing the Paris Motorshow (subscription required), and concluded by saying of Citroen: “Many felt that [its various show ...

Chris Bangle at his wild, gesticulating best at Art Center Pasadena. 7 February 2007 (Joseph Simpson) Car Magazine today broke the story that Chris Bangle, BMW’s design chief, will leave the Bavarian company, and more shockingly, the auto industry entirely. Bangle is the latest in a band of succes...

We're in the middle of our biggest snowfall in London for 15 years. There aren't any buses this morning (6 million people use them each day, so this is quite controversial). And there aren't any trains in and out of much of the capital, certainly from the southern inner suburbs like Camberwell where...

A visit to New York for most people is about the city and its sights, sounds, shopping etc. OK it is a big brash noisy place that towers over you and runs at a pace that never seems to ease up. This post-Christmas visit by me to the ‘city that never sleeps’ was about enjoying ‘hidden gems’ â...

Do the seagulls know something we dont? - Fiat and Chrysler seems like an unlikely union Fiat Auto Group’s deal to create a strategic alliance, and eventually take a 35% stake in ailing Chrysler, has been met with a mixture of despair and rejoicing by the wider automotive industry and its league o...

Keeping an eye on the competition in Cobo today... guess which manufacturer's car this is from? Judging by the response of some auto makers, you'd have thought this year's Detroit autoshow wouldn't be worth the effort. However, judging by twitter chatter, mainstream news coverage and...