Simon Harris

@simonharris
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Head of valuations, UK Vehicle Data. Chair, Welsh Motoring Writers. Chair, Guild of Motoring Writers.
The last 18 months of building a car residual values forecasting tool have been somewhat outside my comfort zone, but a rewarding learning experience. Our product is due to go out to leasing companies for testing soon. Most car manufacturers have been supportive. A few have been . . . courageous . . . in avoiding keeping us in the loop on their product plans. We will forecast RVs for those vehicles anyway. But I’m looking forward to finally launching our product in the next few weeks.
Opinion: ZEV mandate runs counter to true sustainability

Loading the future used car market with greater numbers of electric vehicles will have disastrous consequences for used values, says Simon Harris, head of valuations at UK Vehicle Data.

If anyone here would like a Bluesky code, I have a few.
Maybe it was more of a Bluesky post . . .
Went to Wales in the F-Pace at the weekend.
Mazda’s UK PR team was set to host journalists in the Atlas Mountains last week in an epic drive. But the devastating earthquake in Morocco postponed the event and shifted the team’s focus to helping with the rescue efforts. Here’s the account of Mazda UK PR director Graeme Fudge. https://www.gomw.co.uk/news/2023/09/18/from-drive-event-to-disaster-relief/
From drive event to disaster relief - The Guild of Motoring Writers

This week (writes Guild Committee member Jim McGill) I should have completed Mazda’s latest annual Epic Drive, this year travelling 1100kms in 36 hours through the Atlas Mountains. Not surprisingly, the devastating earthquake in Morocco at 11.11pm last Friday meant the event was swiftly cancelled on Saturday morning. While, however, we all read the news […]

The Guild of Motoring Writers
Dr Michael Hfuhruhurr’s favourite poem.
#SorryNotSorry to all the black wheels haters out there.