Ferdinand Porsche was the founder of Volkswagen.
It is said that he was indeed a technical genius and was employed by a large number of car companies eg Austro-Daimler, Mercedes, Daimler-Benz to name but a few.
In 1930 he opened his own design company. In 1931 he asked his team of staff to begin designing a car [...]

Gottlieb Daimler & Karl Benz set up Mercedes Benz in the 1880’s. It is said that these two men in fact had never met each other! They worked independently of each other with Daimler maintaining the racing cars. A dealer from Austria called Emil Jellinek got the cars into races and was very successful. The [...]

Most businesses pay for their cars and vans either by outright purchase or by some sort of leasing contract. There are pros and cons to each approach.
Purchasing Outright
The main advantage of outright purchase is ownership. When the payments have been made on your car or van it belongs to you. This will enable [...]

There has been some more bad news released for the motoring industry, this time it’s in the van and truck sector. Figures for truck registrations in June show that the amount of registrations are still falling, however, the amount of van registrations is showing improvement.
The amount of truck registrations has been declining month on month [...]

Thousands of UK workers are at risk of losing their jobs over the recent collapse of General Motors (GM), the biggest car manufacturing company in America. The company has filed for bankruptcy in the US, causing uncertainty for all its workers about their future with the company. GM Europe, which consists of UK brand Vauxhall [...]

Thousands of Honda employees have returned to work at the company’s Swindon plant after the troubles of the car industry forced its closure four months ago. All 3,400 of the returning workers will be taking a pay cut until 2010 but are glad to be back at work with their jobs secure after spending the [...]