Growing Support For Alternative Car Manufacturers

Friday, 23. September 2011

Years ago stand up comedians like Bernard Manning could fill a complete stand up slot with jokes about Ladas and Skodas, you didn’t measure their speed in miles per hour but feet per week etc. Nissan was called Datsun and called cars after flowers and birds, like Primrose and Bluebird. In those days they simply didn’t get it in the same way as our Read more »

Electric Car World Speed Record Attempt

Sunday, 18. September 2011

I have to say when I read this it made me smile. I heard that the land speed record breaker, Malcolm Campbell’s great grandson, Don Wales set out to break his own record of 137 mph in an electric car set by him in 2000. The car he was to drive was named similarly to Campbell’s Bluebird and was put to the test on the Pendine Sands in Carmarthernshire Read more »