Also Roy Wood Transits will have a couple of adapted camper-vans

Also, Roy Wood Transits will have a couple of adapted camper-vans.However, you can still opt for a stylish vehicle. But there are circumstances where you need lots of room for people and luggage. All you have to do is bring your driving licence and you can have go on all sorts of adapted vehicles, which include quad bikes and scooters.It is a mistake to think that if you have mobility issues you’ll have to be stuck inside an adapted van for the rest of your days. This year there will be two shows, one near Edinburgh and the other near Swindon, and entry is free, which means everyone has the chance to meet more than 200 exhibitors.
These include major car companies, vehicle adaptation and conversion specialists, mobility aids manufacturers, scooter and wheelchair manufacturers, information and advice services, charities, mobility insurance specialists and holiday companies.Visitors also get to test out products.

Originally started by the Department of Transport in 1983, the Mobility Roadshow is now run by Mobility Choice, a registered charity with grant-aid support from the Department for Transport. Also, if you happen to be disabled, then a conventional motor show is all but useless, with virtually no relevant vehicles to look at. That’s surprising considering that there are around 9.8 million disabled people in the UK, 2.3 million blue-badge holders and that 10 per cent of the UK car market comprises “mobility” vehicles It’s a good job then, that the Mobility Roadshow exists It is the world’s largest outdoor mobility event. Motor shows, up until recently, have largely been rubbish.

Sometimes you can look, but you can’t touch or sit in and as for having a drive, that’s been pretty much impossible. The most glamorous of the US Chevrolets, the Corvette, is denied its Chevrolet branding in Europe and is sold here by Cadillac dealers. Perhaps the Camaro could be similarly de-Chevied if deemed necessary. It’s an easy anomaly to live with if it means we can have the car.I hope it happens. Whatever you might think about the US at the moment, it does this sort of thing rather well.. GM is almost certain to make a production version, perhaps as soon as 2008, but plans for Europe are hard to fathom.One problem is that Chevrolet has been recast, outside the US, as a global budget brand with Daewoo roots.

It feels mighty rapid, of course, but the real thing would be yet faster. That’s partly because it would weigh less, and, more obviously because there’s an electronic speed limiter to reduce the possibility of artistic, rather than durability-tested, pieces falling off. The Chevrolet Camaro concept is a fabulous bit of fun, and its profligate engine even switches to four cylinders under gentle driving to stem the fuel thirst. pre-production of what, exactly?Ms Darbyshire could not reveal the answer, but it’s likely to be part of GM’s new Global Rear-Wheel Drive platform whose development is centred at GM’s Holden outpost in Australia but to which GM engineering teams worldwide are contributing.Holden has already sent the Chevy V8-engined Monaro coup?o the UK, and the Camaro (if it goes ahead) is essentially a rebodied version of the next-generation Monaro.Back to the concept car. One of Ms Darbyshire’s tasks was to select the right parts from GM’s huge inventory to make the designers’ ideas a reality, to bring the concept car to life and make it work. What a fantastic job that must be, a notion with which she – an engineer whose father and brothers are also engineers – readily agrees.The chosen pieces include that Corvette engine (the latest, all-aluminium version of the Chevrolet small-block V8, of which more examples have been made since 1955 than any other engine range in history), multi-link rear suspension from the Cadillac CTS, and “pre-production” front suspension Aha, interesting…

This concept car doesn’t use quite the same chassis and suspension components as the production version would, but in principle they are quite similar. “I’m interested to know what you think, though.”She’s interested because it could have a bearing on how the production car turns out. “We selected the springs purely to give the right ride height,” she continues, as if to say that the tautness is immaterial because this is, of course, only a concept car. It also feels very firm on its vast, machined-from-solid wheels (21in front, 22in rear), maybe too taut for a roadgoing car “Too taut?” queries Ms Darbyshire. The Camaro is low, sinewy, wide, vocal, just as a musclecar should be There’s one big divergence from the 1960s template, though. I steer the Chevrolet through a long, fast bend, and it responds accurately with credible feedback and none of the springy vagueness that the original Camaro possessed. We might have issues with drive-by noise legislation, though.”Yes, this all feels authentic.