New Cars Get Smaller To Meet CO2 Targets

Wednesday, 18. August 2010

I’m confused! It happens when you get older I’m told. Why am I confused? Well just as I started to get used to cars getting bigger, and not as a result of changing my glasses, manufacturers have started bringing out cars as big as a large shoe! Look at a new Clio – it’s about the same size as an old Megane. The VW Polo is easily as big as an early Golf and a Corsa has the size these days of an old Astra. As for Mini if, as I saw Read more »

Car Lead Times Get Worse

Wednesday, 16. June 2010

We recently had the Mercedes C63 AMG on offer. If you had ordered a car, which is partly hand built, it would have taken Mercedes about 10 weeks to get the car built and delivered to you. But in one of the worst examples of long delivery of a standard car one dealer recently quoted 20 weeks to deliver a standard VW Polo. This is partly because this particular dealer had used up his allocation but even dealers with Read more »

Surprise Car Of The Year

Monday, 28. December 2009

The surprise car of the year has been named as the VW Polo. I actually can’t remember the last time I supplied a Polo and whilst reports have suggested that the latest version is about the same size as older Golfs it doesn’t seem to have set the world alight in any other way. Just goes to show what I know! Toyota’s IQ was in second place with the Vauxhall Astra in 3rd place. Amazing! By Graham Hill