As our Engineer Academy approaches the end of its first year, we look back & debrief at the achievements, the successes and the obstacles that we’ve faced along the way. The vision of the Academy was to support the steps of an engineer’s journey, from rookie to fully qualified, with a mix of formal, external…
When we were asked if we support Movember, we had no hesitation is signing up. For the second year running Lamborghini are supporting this important charity. We will be joining the team at Lamborghini Manchester on a Bull Run to Silverstone circuit, meeting with the other six Lambo dealers from the UK and indeed most…
Supporting The Industry We’re delighted to announce that we’ve been shortlisted for this year’s Personal Injury Awards in association with Blume. The PI Awards have been honouring excellence within the personal injury sector for 15 years, so it is a great privilege to be selected as a finalist. Having served the personal injury industry for…
By Nik Ellis Only 4% of millennials are interested in working in the insurance industry, this indicates a huge talent crisis for the future. How might the industry adapt to these potentially disruptive changes to maintain a consistent influx of talent in the future? The pandemic reversed employer controlled recruitment to today’s ‘talent crisis’. Employees…
How can the use of recycled “green parts” effect the resilience and flexibility of the repair industry supply chain? This year has seen an unprecedented change for car & van sales. The supply of new vehicles has suffered more this year than any period since the war. A perfect storm combining production issues from closed factories due to Covid,…
Nik Ellis went with the Rev4 Unplugged crew to the launch of Assetti Performance open day / supercar meeting, supported by Instagram car enthusiast Supercars In Manchester. With a wealth of supercars from all over the North West, including a McLaren Senna, Ferrari SP90, Bac Mono, Porsches, Lamborghini, Rolls, Bentley, Mercedes, a host of Nissan…
Desktop Virtual Inspections The single biggest move we’ve made in terms of environmental responsibility is to educate the industry about the benefits of desktop reports. Historically an engineer was deployed to travel to each & every damaged car; at the height of these physical inspections, we travelled close to half a million miles a year. …
by Nik Ellis Sixty odd years ago my father was an engineer for Jaguar at their factory in Coventry, with a large part of his roll involving testing and test driving E-Type Jaguars, including some time spent in Jaguar’s Experimental Department. It seems somewhat fitting that as we celebrate 60 years of this iconic vehicle,…
For 21 years we’ve produced reports on crashed cars. We still do. But for the last few years our clients have got so much more from us. Generally this was not a case of the client demanding, often they didn’t know how much extra we could give them, more us communicating about their pain points….
By Nik Ellis We were very lucky to be given the chance to attend the launch of a very special vehicle at Lamborghini Manchester, the Lamborghini Huracán STO. A limited-edition, track-orientated version of the highly successful Huracán, basically a road legal version of their Super Trofeo Evo and GT3 race cars, triple Daytona 24 hours…