Autocar June 10, 2020

With more need than ever for engaging, entertaining magazines, we plan to ensure that Autocar will continue to be published in print every Wednesday. You should continue to find copies in supermarkets and other shops each week, so you can grab the latest issue while doing your essential food shopping. We have also prepared some special offers for both print and digital subscriptions to Autocar, so you can continue to receive every issue without leaving your home. You can receive five print issues for £5 or a five-issue print and digital bundle for £7.50. Visit themagazineshop.com/easms20c Autocar is available digitally on: ● Apple’s App Store ● Zinio ● Readly ● Exact Editions Simply search for the apps on your device. As we have been since 1895, we are committed to bringing you the best motoring magazine every week, to help…

With more need than ever for engaging, entertaining magazines, we plan to ensure that Autocar will continue to be published in print every Wednesday. You should continue to find copies in supermarkets and other shops each week, so you can grab the latest issue while doing your essential food shopping. We have also prepared some special offers for both print and digital subscriptions to Autocar, so you can continue to receive every issue without leaving your home. You can receive five print issues for £5 or a five-issue print and digital bundle for £7.50. Visit themagazineshop.com/easms20c Autocar is available digitally on: ● Apple’s App Store ● Zinio ● Readly ● Exact Editions Simply search for the apps on your device. As we have been since 1895, we are committed to…

CAN A CAR maker ever be fully prepared to absorb a shock like the coronavirus pandemic each year? “You can put everyone on a 48-hour week and then give them four months off a year. It can be done in a sensible way; you retain your staff all year round but are radical in how you use them, thinking in a lateral way. You can run a car business differently.” So says Bentley CEO Adrian Hallmark who, while not proposing this for Crewe, offers it as an example of a manufacturer planning for even the most extreme of shocks. It’s this kind of progressive thinking that will be used in transforming Bentley and, in Hallmark’s words, in future making the company “recession proof”. However, before a bright future must come a period of…

CAN A CAR maker ever be fully prepared to absorb a shock like the coronavirus pandemic each year? “You can put everyone on a 48-hour week and then give them four months off a year. It can be done in a sensible way; you retain your staff all year round but are radical in how you use them, thinking in a lateral way. You can run a car business differently.” So says Bentley CEO Adrian Hallmark who, while not proposing this for Crewe, offers it as an example of a manufacturer planning for even the most extreme of shocks. It’s this kind of progressive thinking that will be used in transforming Bentley and, in Hallmark’s words, in future making the company “recession proof”. However, before a bright future must come…

GOT A STORY? Email our news editor lawrence.allan@haymarket.com “We need a global product that appeals to younger buyers and more females” Jaguar is weighing up a number of options for replacing its slow-selling XE and XF saloons, including a radical electrified saloon and a smaller, hatchback-style model. The next 12 months will be crucial for Jaguar Land Rover as it attempts to recover from the huge financial disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic. It’s also a period in which the Jaguar brand will come under intense scrutiny as it searches for a formula that will deliver at least one more big-volume new vehicle to boost profits. Jaguar hasn’t ruled out directly replacing the two saloons but, with the market shifting away from such models, Autocar understands the firm is considering radical alternatives. One option is to…

GOT A STORY? Email our news editor lawrence.allan@haymarket.com “We need a global product that appeals to younger buyers and more females” Jaguar is weighing up a number of options for replacing its slow-selling XE and XF saloons, including a radical electrified saloon and a smaller, hatchback-style model. The next 12 months will be crucial for Jaguar Land Rover as it attempts to recover from the huge financial disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic. It’s also a period in which the Jaguar brand will come under intense scrutiny as it searches for a formula that will deliver at least one more big-volume new vehicle to boost profits. Jaguar hasn’t ruled out directly replacing the two saloons but, with the market shifting away from such models, Autocar understands the firm is considering…