Twizy Car Sharing Program - Trial Underway in France
16 Jun 2012, 11:13 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / The Renault Twizy all-electric city runabout will be part of the trial run for car sharing program, which will take place in the “urban community of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines,” roughly 3...
Excellent Old Presentation of the Classic Citroen DS
12 Jun 2012, 11:19 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / We have made our love of the old, classic Citroen DS all too clear and thus, further comments are redundant. However we had yet to find a proper presentation for the car - one that would do it justi...
Renault Zoe Breaks 24H Distance Record
12 Jun 2012, 09:16 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / We are very eagerly awaiting the launch of Renault’s supermini EV, the Zoe, some time in the autumn of this year. It is a genuinely exciting car because it features Renault’s excellent s...
PGO Shows e-Hemera Hybrid
11 Jun 2012, 09:45 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Not may people know of PGO, but they are a small and independent French car manufacturer - a rare thing these days. They are best known for their Hemera sports car - an automobile which looks very m...
Citroen 2CVs Making Babies
11 Jun 2012, 07:41 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Citroens were are special among cars, as they had ‘something’ which you couldn’t find in any other car. They are mythical, like Santa Claus or the Huldfolk of Iceland - nobody has...
EVs Accounting for Only 0.2% of New Car Sales in France
28 May 2012, 10:27 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Despite Renault being all for the development of EVs and getting them onto the market as quickly as possible, and their group partners, Nissan with their Leaf being already there, its a tad strange ...
Nissan Reveals Quick EV Charging System for French and Dutch Owners
22 May 2012, 13:24 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Nissan have officially unveiled their first EV Quick Chargers in Holland and France. The first step was to literally donate 400 units, in order to accelerate the development of the local EV infrastr...
New French President Francois Hollande Rides in a Citroen DS5
18 May 2012, 09:00 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Newly appointed French president, Francois Hollande, waves to the crowds from within the huge sunroof of his bespoke DS5 HYbrid4 Laundulet. We’re kind of sad to see the truly and undeniably...
MINI Fans Travel from Russia to France
11 May 2012, 15:57 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Have you noticed how the MINI naming system doesn’t make sense anymore? Cooper, Cooper S and John Cooper Works are now overly complicated names for trim levels basically. The system worked fin...
KB Rossocorsa Ferrari Gathering in Paris
8 May 2012, 09:48 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Ferrari owners, apparently, do like how to gather from time to time and bore each other with laptime nonsense and their 100-way adjustable suspension and traction control settings. At a recent e...
New Citroen DS Model Scooped in Paris
20 Mar 2012, 16:10 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Citroen has managed to keep their new car under wraps, but only just. Yesterday, we showed you the first teaser photo released by the French themselves via Facebook, and now we give you a better, bu...
Renault Secures Massive Kango Van Z.E. French State Order
31 Oct 2011, 14:44 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / The general public isn’t convinced that electric vehicles are the way of the future and fossil fuels will go the way of the dinosaurs (from which they came), but much like states were faster t...
Renault Produces 100,000th Master Van at SoVAB
12 Jul 2011, 11:52 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / French manufacturer Renault announced today that the 100,000th example of its Master van has rolled off the assembly lines at its SoVAB plant in France. The chassis cab in question was delivered to ...
MV Agusta Expands Dealer Network in France
18 May 2011, 14:18 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Following Canada and Australia, France is the next country to get an extensive MV Agusta official distributor network, the Italian motorcycle manufacturer announced today. The company decided France...
French Drivers Start the Fight Against New Traffic Regulations
17 May 2011, 11:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Quite a stir, the French initiative to toughen the traffic law in the country has caused... The provisions of the new legislation, much harsher than the one currently in effect and adorned from pla...
France! Liberté, égalité and a whole lot of communism
16 May 2011, 12:29 UTC · By: Charles Darveight / I never was what you would call a “fan” of the French. They’re simply annoying. They’ve got this unbelievable tendency of being backwards compared to the rest of the world, t...
France Toughness Traffic Law
16 May 2011, 09:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Slowly, but surely, the noose is getting tighter around the necks of all those drivers who, up until now, felt that they can get away with one or two traffic law violations. For Europe, the change w...
Diesel-only Laguna Coupe Monaco GP Available in France
16 Apr 2011, 12:20 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / First introduced at the Geneva Motor Show together with a similar version of the Megane, the second run of the Renault Laguna Coupe Monaco GP special edition is now available for order in France. Th...
Nissan Reveals LEAF's France Pricing at EVER Monaco 2011
31 Mar 2011, 12:22 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Nissan has announced today that its 100% electric car, the LEAF, will be priced at €30,990 in France. The figure is the grand total left after government incentive, but includes the batteries. ...
Renault Establishes EV HQ in France
11 Feb 2011, 10:16 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Renault will launch its first electric vehicles during the course of this year and, although most of us have already seen the models, it will definitely be one of the major moments of the automotive...