Mon 27 Sep 2010
British tycoon and owner of the Segway company, Jimi Heseldon, has died after reportedly driving one of the firm’s motorized two-wheelers off a cliff and into a river near his estate in Thorp Arch, Boston Spa, West Yorkshire, on Sunday, according to news reports.
“Police were called at 11.40am yesterday to reports of a man in the River Wharfe, apparently having fallen from the cliffs above,” a spokesman for West Yorkshire Police force told reporters.
Thu 23 Sep 2010
Coda Automotive, the California based electric car company, is set to start delivering the first wave of its electric compact sedans this December for a price-tag of $44,900, before state and federal incentives. Federal incentives will bring the starting price down to $37,400, and with California state incentives considered, the final price could be as low as $32,400.
Thu 16 Sep 2010
In response to numerous media requests (or so the company claims), small-scale Canadian automaker Motive has released the first official images of its hemp-bodied EV city car, the Kestrel. The car was unveiled at the EV 2010 VÉ Conference and Tradeshow in Vancouver recently.
As previously reported by Carscoop, the Kestrel is a cab-forward design that seats four. It is made of a bio-fibre (hemp) based composite that is said to reduce weight, resist rust and increase impact absorption.
Mon 6 Jul 2009
Following in the… footsteps of its sister company Opel and its Agila high-heel shoes that were shown at an event in Amsterdam last year, Vauxhall unit has presented its own take on the car-theme shoe thingy with the release of the specially commissioned, Corsa roller boots. If you’re wondering why, GM’s UK division is planning some sort of promotional event at London’s Shoreditch area that is said to “transport” visitors to a late 20th Century vision of the future, in a 70′s disco meets Knight Rider on roller skates kind of way, whatever that means.
Wed 27 May 2009
Today, a high-quality mechanical watch is more than just a precision timekeeper, of course. Inevitably, it is a treasured item of jewelry – often, the only one – that expresses taste and lifestyle. The Audi Tachoscope sends a clear message: Its owner exhibits sporting elegance, values distinctive aesthetics and supreme quality, honors tradition yet is open for innovation. In return the Tachoscope provides its owner with the assurance of knowing that he is wearing a singularly exclusive possession: Exactly 100 specimens will be hand-crafted – one for each of Audi’s 100 years.