20-21 October: This Weekend in Motor Sport History
Discover the momentous motor sports events that took place this weekend in history …….. ~20 October~ 1938: Chris Staniland driving a Multi-Union set an all-time Brooklands (England) record for Class D (under 3,000 cc) of 141.45 mph. 1957: Jack Smith edged Lee Petty to win the 100-mile #NASCAR Grand National event at North Wilkesboro Speedway.…
5- 11 February: Motoring Milestones
Discover the momentous motoring events that took place this week in motoring history ……. 100 years ago this week, Thomas A. Edison, perhaps the America’s greatest ever inventor was issued a US patent for a “Starting and Current-Supplying System for Automobiles” (No. 1,255,517) [5 February 1918].……80 years ago this week, Harvey S. Firestone (89), founder…
27-28 January: This Weekend in Motor Sport History
Discover the momentous events that took place this weekend in the history of motor sport ……. ~27 January~ 1904: William K Vanderbilt Jr. reached 92.3 mph in his new 90 HP Mercedes at the Daytona Beach Road Course at Ormond Beach, Florida, surpassing the land speed record established earlier in the month by Henry Ford.…
21-22 October: This weekend in the History of Motor Sport
Momentous motor sports events that took place during this weekend in history ……. ~21 October~ 1891: A one-mile dirt track opened for harness races at the site of the present-day Tennessee State Fairgrounds in Nashville. Harness racing proved a popular event at the annual Tennessee state fair, but it was nothing compared to the excitement…
22-28 May: Motoring Milestones
Momentous motoring events that took place during this week in history ….. 120 years ago this week, the western Blackwall Tunnel, part of the A102, designed by Sir Alexander Binnie and built by S. Pearson & Sons for London County Council, was opened by the Prince of Wales. [22 May 1897] It was then the…
2-8 January: Motoring Milestones
Cars, people and events in this week’s Motoring Milestones include…. National Express coaches, Nash, Marmon Wasp, Ford Rouge, Malcolm Campbell, Rolls Royce and Chicago Auto Show. [amazon template=banner easy] 560 years ago this week, the Memmiger Chronicle mentioned the trial of a carriage “without horse, oxen or people, yet the man who built it sat…
24-30 October: Motoring Milestones
Cars, people and events in this week’s Motoring Milestones include: M25, Margaret Thatcher, Craig Breedlove, Queen Elizabeth II and Ford Taurus. 80 years ago this week, the 3,000,000th Buick was presented to Arthur Lee Newton, President of the Glidden Buick Corporation in New York City, the marque’s largest dealer [25 October 1936]…… 70 years ago…
The world’s first self-driving taxis, operated by autonomous vehicle software startup nuTonomy, began picking up passengers in Singapore
Monday 22nd August 2016 The world’s first self-driving taxis, operated by autonomous vehicle software startup nuTonomy, began picking up passengers in Singapore. Six modified Renault Zoe and Mitsubishi i-MiEV electrics, carried a driver in front who is prepared to take back the wheel and a researcher in back who watches the car’s computers.
VW passed Toyota to top spot Toyota as world’s largest carmaker by market capitalization – €94
Tuesday 7th October 2008 VW passed Toyota to top spot Toyota as world’s largest carmaker by market capitalization – €94.5bn compared with Toyota’s Y12,792bn (€92bn); VW was worth more than Daimler, BMW, General Motors, Ford, Fiat, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Renault, Mitsubishi, Hyundai combined.