FUTURE OF DEALERSHIPS

Salesrooms reached a crossroads in 2020. In their rear-view mirror, some grim perspectives loomed. Two years before, number crunchers at KPMG forecasted half of them will be gone by the middle of this decade, while online comparison site Carwow declared that we’re quickly moving into a retail landscape where the car buying process is virtually […]
SSANGYONG MUSSO RHINO LWB AUTOMATIC

Report 2 Running ahead of Professor Whitty, I packed in extra miles at the lofty helm of HMS Rhino. Most were domestic duties, like moving half a tonne of greenery and clogging the council tip. Buy one of these, incidentally, and no matter how soft your hands or white your collar, you’re in with the […]
Listen up, you animals…

A fresh set of roadkill statistics hardly makes cosy reading as we contemplate January’s long hours of darkness. A Freedom of Information request to the Highways Agency on the extent of wild and domesticated animal deaths on UK roads unearths some depressing statistics. The 2017 to 2018 data – the latest set available – reveals […]
SsangYong Musso Rhino LWB Automatic

First Report My Musso arrived just before the leaves began to fall; all going well, it will be on hand to perform all manner of heroic duties until we’re heading into spring. But this is no standard model – this is the new 310mm longer flagship Rhino. Seeing as Musso means ‘Rhino’ already, the marketing […]
Cars of the world 2013
While Ford’s Fiesta rules Britain’s car parks, some odd motors dominate abroad.