David Brown Archive

Hello and welcome to Overdrive, a program that takes an expansive look at the world of cars and transport. I’m David Brown And in this program, we look at news stories with David Campbell including: Royal couple’s electric Jaguar E-type Zero coupe will go into production Fewer than 1 in 3 new car shoppers agree

The acronym CAV, Connected and Autonomous vehicles, broadly covers the technology that will create enormous impacts in countries all over the world. It will change how and when we travel but will also generate jobs and enhance wealth creation opportunities. Private industry is pushing hard and governments can’t totally control it but it is critical

The Chinese, like the Japanese before them, have taken some things from the British car industry to help them build their own industry. Now SAIC has the brand name MG and is building cars that are more a reflection of the modern world than the tradition that started in 1923 in Britain. Motoring journalists Paul

  Can the Chinese make use of the British brand name? MG Car Company Limited was registered in 1923. MG stood for Morris Garages. William Morris was the Viscount of Nuffield in England He established a business building cars that bore his name, perhaps the most famous was the later versions of the Morris Minor.