Glenn Brooks

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Is quirkiness the secret to Mazda profit?

1 month ago | just-auto.com | Glenn Brooks

A pick-up from Isuzu, powerful PHEVs, a fresh range of six-cylinder petrol and even diesel engines, SUVs for different regions, EVs made in China: highly profitable, medium-sized Mazda behaves like a major OEM, albeit, a most unusual one. Such examples are only a sample from what is a complex global strategy for ongoing success. Consider too innovative propulsion systems and a general continued reinvention, all of which help to keep the Hiroshima-based company thriving.
Tariffs - is Acura about to win big?

1 month ago | just-auto.com | Glenn Brooks

What should have been a potentially big volume addition to the Acura line-up has arrived at a possibly inopportune moment for American Honda. The US being far and away the upscale brand’s number one market, uncertainty suddenly hangs over the new-for-2025 ADX. Why? Unlike all other Acura models, this additional SUV is manufactured outside the United States, hailing from the Celaya factory in Mexico.
The silent rise of Genesis

1 month ago | just-auto.com | Glenn Brooks

Strong growth has been a lengthy wait for Genesis Europe, though its parent firm always maintained that the strategy would be long term. Germany, one of only three markets for the brand, Hyundai Motor Group having withdrawn from Russia, is notoriously hard for any foreign luxury marque. Unless it has links to the Volkswagen Group of course: witness Cupra’s recent spectacular progress.
Why the C-HR is Toyota's secret weapon

2 months ago | just-auto.com | Glenn Brooks

When considering buying any new car, it’s a strange thing but we often suddenly see that model everywhere. So it is sometimes with vehicles I find myself driving. That absolutely has applied to the latest Toyota C-HR, the two-tone crossover with origami-like lines, during a week of testing one. I even found myself peering at any example to see if it might be the same as ‘mine’, the new-ish PHEV. You can pick out the plug-in hybrid by an extra flap, that being a cover for the charging socket.
Opel overtaken - Cupra's conquesting continues - Just Auto

2 months ago | just-auto.com | Glenn Brooks

Can Cupra do no wrong? SEAT S.A.’s profits powerhouse is selling so many cars that it even rose to position six in Europe’s largest national market during March. Which means it was not only ahead of Ford but Opel too, data from Germany’s KBA show. Audi remained safe in fifth in its home country, a long way ahead (17,608 versus 9,617) but Opel was down by 26.1% to 9,581 and Ford by 17.5% to 8,752 compared to March 2024. And all these brands have several new models.
Scala - the Simply Secret Škoda?

2 months ago | just-auto.com | Glenn Brooks

Is selling 56,300 examples of any car a poor performance? That was how many units of the Scala its maker says were delivered to buyers in 2024. UK orders accounted for 3,451 of that total. This hatchback is more than good enough to outsell not only many rivals but other Škoda models too. So why doesn’t it? Announced at the end of 2018, the Scala has been in production at the company’s Mladá Boleslav plant since mid-2019. Linked closely to the Kamiq SUV, facelifts for both were revealed in August 2023.
Avenger - can a tiny SUV be a real Jeep?

Mar 13, 2025 | just-auto.com | Glenn Brooks

Launched just over a decade ago, the Renegade pioneered the idea that a Jeep could be compact. Buyers worldwide immediately loved this B segment model but back then something even smaller than the 4,230 mm long SUV seemed unlikely. All that changed with the merger of PSA and FCA, with plans drawn up for an even more compact and, for the first time, electric vehicle.
Can new Peugeot 5008 beat class leaders?

Mar 6, 2025 | just-auto.com | Glenn Brooks

The market for what Europeans think of as large SUVs is, well, bigger than it once was. Far bigger in fact, thanks to the Tesla Model Y. And even though that vehicle’s sales have taken a whopping hit across the region so far in 2025, it’s still extremely successful. Other contenders in the 4.7-4.9 m long size class include the likes of the Kia Sorento and Hyundai Santa Fe. Plus the aged Land Rover Discovery Sport and just-facelifted Volvo XC90 are still doing good volume too.
Geely beats BYD to become No.1 in China - what’s next for its brands?

Feb 25, 2025 | just-auto.com | Glenn Brooks

Intending to sell some five million vehicles annually in 2027, Geely Holding, also known as Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, is nothing if not ambitious. It has many passenger vehicle and commercial vehicle brands, recently merging Lynk & Co with Zeekr. There may even be further expansion of an existing alliance with Renault Group too. This report takes a look at some of the key models of the next decade from selected brands, several of which are imminent.
Lexus pivots to PHEV tech with NX 450h+

Feb 21, 2025 | just-auto.com | Glenn Brooks

Toyota continues to secure its place as Europe’s number two brand, second only to Volkswagen. But what of Lexus? Globally it was a record 2024, deliveries reaching 851,214 units of which Europe region accounted for 82,571 vehicles (according to Lexus HQ in Japan; Lexus UK says it was 88,184). Within that, the UK comprised 16,678, a 4.5 per cent gain over 2023 and the best result yet.