The original Alvis Car Company was founded in 1919 in Coventry and over the ensuing years became well-known for producing sports cars of quality and performance. In 1968 the company relocated to nearby Kenilworth and although no longer producing cars they have continued to provide support for Alvis owners right up to the present day under the name of Red Triangle (after Alvis’s inverted triangle logo).
The Alvis Car Company has now resumed production of the famous 4.3 Litre Vanden Plas Tourer as a continuation model, 72 years after the last one was produced, and it is being built to individual customer order in Kenilworth. Since starting the Vanden Plas Tourer project, Alvis have susequently offered several other iconic models for continuation production.
Race car engineering. Quality components. Uniquely designed, beautifully made, with astonishing performance that surpasses practically any vehicle. This then is the essence of the Ariel Atom - no compromise, total driver involvement, the bottom line is stunningly serious fun.The original Ariel company started by making cars around the turn of the last century and later became well known as a builder of high powered motorbikes, which included the famous Ariel Arrow.
The unique Atom has now been in production for over fifteen years at the purpose-built factory in Crewkerne, Somerset, and the latest version of this car, the Atom 4, is built alongside the all-terrain Nomad 2.
Founded in 2015 by Denis Swerdlov, a Russian entrepreneur, Arrival is a global technical company creating electric vehicles, with headquarters in London and Charlotte, USA. It also has an R&D facility in Banbury, Oxfordshire and further offices in North America, Germany, Israel, Russia and the Netherlands.
Arrival's President and Chief Strategy Officer is Avinash Rugoobur, former Head of Strategy at GM Cruise Automation. Mike Ableson, former President of EV Infrastructure and Global Strategy at GM joined in 2019 as CEO of Automotive and North America. Former Nike VP, Adrian Nyman, was recently announced as Arrival's new Chief of Brand.
The company has recently unveiled specifications of its new electric Van which will be starting public road trials with key customers, including Royal Mail and UPS, in the summer of 2021. Last year it also announced its new all-electric Arrival Bus which is currently undergoing evaluation, which will be priced the same as an equivalent diesel vehicle.
Arrival announced in January 2020 that Hyundai Motor Group and Kia Motors had invested €100 million in the company marking the start of a strategic partnership between the automakers to accelerate the adoption of commercial electric vehicles globally. At the same time the company announced that UPS had invested in Arrival and placed an order for 10,000 generation 2 electric vans to be rolled out across the UK, Europe and North America before 2024 as part of their transition towards zero-emissions fleet.
Arrival plan to use 10,000 m2 (110,000 sq ft) "microfactories" to build their electric vehicles having developed a "skateboard" platform containing a drive train and batteries.
