Features | The Western Group of Motoring Writers

Ariel Nomad 2 – The ultimate, a go-anywhere sports car

by WGMW News | Jul 10, 2024 | Features, News

Launching the all-new Ariel Nomad 2, ARIEL Motor Company, based in Crewkerne, Somerset is a low-volume producer of ultra-lightweight road, track, and off-road cars. Ariel’s second-generation Nomad is appropriately called “Nomad 2.” Now in its fourth...

Kia Drive Day, June 2024

by Gareth Herincx | Jun 10, 2024 | Features, From the Chair, News

A big thanks to the Kia UK PR team for putting on a drive day for the Group at the Bishopstrow Hotel and Spa in Warminster on June 5. The event gave members a chance to get up to speed with most of the Kia range, including the EV6 and EV6 GT, EV9, Sportage, Stonic and...

SMMT electric avenue of dreams

by Robin Roberts | Jun 4, 2024 | Electric Cars, Features, News

It’s green for go The green flash on UK number plates is going to appear on more pure battery vehicles cars this year than ever before and some of the cars behind the plates are not run of the mill models but bursting with performance. potential. British...

What links a 19th century Glasgow bicycle maker, a tiny Scottish island, the world’s first V12 engine, the Hillman Imp, and the Internal Fire and Power Museum in west Wales?

by Dave Moss | Apr 3, 2024 | Features, Meet the experts

Our story begins late in the nineteenth century, when one Alistair Edward Stuart Craig established a business called Craig Bicycles in Glasgow. It made modest numbers of machines, each emblazoned with his trademark: a man standing atop a mountain, holding a bicycle in...

2023 Western Group of Motoring Writers PR Driving Day

by John Kendall | Jun 30, 2023 | Driving Day, Features, From the Chair, News

The Group began its 40th anniversary celebrations with the 2023 Driving Day held at the Haynes Motor Museum, in the heart of Western Group territory on 15th June. With cars from BMW, Ford, Genesis, Honda, Kia, Mazda, MINI, Suzuki, VW and Volvo, there was plenty to...

Carlos Ghosn and the ‘Collision Course’ factors that got him locked up

by David Leggett | Nov 25, 2021 | Features, News

A recently published book explores the multiple factors at play in the downfall of one of the auto industry’s celebrated executives, Carlos Ghosn. The story of Carlos Ghosn’s time as the head of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, while leading both companies – and his...

Stonehenge and the motorist: A 6000 year old story… so far – by Dave Moss

by Dave Moss | Jun 4, 2021 | Features, Meet the experts

On 12 November 2020, permission was granted to join up existing dual carriageways on the A303 in Wiltshire via a new dual carriageway section, running via a twin-bore four-lane road tunnel just south of Stonehenge. The decision reignited controversy which has raged...

To 10 Downing Street via Tavistock

by John Powell | May 11, 2020 | Features

Western Group veteran John Powell has secured a scoop for his latest venture – signing up Tony Blair’s closest aide Alastair Campbell for exclusive articles in an online magazine for volunteers who are helping elderly and vulnerable people cope with the...

MG F Silver Anniversary Celebration

by Dave Moss | Mar 9, 2020 | Features

A quarter of a century on and the MG F still turns heads, so historian Dave Moss has been looking back at the car which became a milestone in the marque’s history

30 long years in the making

by Dave Moss | Mar 2, 2020 | Features

The cars of 1990 still somehow seem both comfortingly recent and familiar but technically they are now historic, reminises Dave Moss –

From Somerset it came

by Dave Moss | Jan 30, 2020 | Features

A long and steamy story of friendship, love, endeavour – and survival –

Festive Reflections

by Dave Moss | Jan 3, 2020 | Features

If you thought you had the measure of Christmas drinking, Dave Moss will have a surprise or kilderkin for you –

Big Electric Shock

by Dave Moss | Nov 25, 2019 | Features

The largest battery powered vehicle in the world never needs recharging, says Dave Moss-

Diesel developments in deepest Cornwall

by Dave Moss | Sep 17, 2018 | Features

Writer Dave Moss uncovers the little known history of a West Country engineer and his even less appreciated achievements on behalf of some much more famous names in the automotive world –

Secrets from beyond the River Tamar

by Dave Moss | Apr 19, 2018 | Features

Cornwall’s hall of fame embraces clotted cream to surf, spectacular scenery and a tin-mining history which has bequeathed a legacy of lonely, long defunct engine houses hauntingly scattered across its landscape. Historian Dave Moss looks back at a little...

45 years and accounting

by Andrew Andersz | Mar 29, 2018 | Features

The only qualification you need to become an effective PR operative is to have been to agricultural college to be trained as a sheep dog as you spend most of your time pointing journalists in one direction or another –