McLaren the Formula 1 team may be having the most woeful start to season in its history, but it has not stopped McLaren the road car constructor forging ahead. It…

Car manufacturers talk to car journalists in code. It goes like this: ‘We will never make a car like the one you are suggesting’ actually means there’s nothing like it…

And so unto the shores of Lake Geneva do those pilgrims we call car constructors draw once more, for their annual gathering in the land of cuckoo clocks, chocolate and…

I’ve learned a new word. I wanted to describe what happens when winter visits these far flung parts and all the Land Rover Defenders that have spent their summer months…

Ford, it has to be said, played something of a blinder. It had be known for a while that it would have something interesting and performance-oriented to show at the…

I will never know why it took until the man was in his 95th year, but Jaguar’s legendary test driver is Norman Dewis no more, but Norman Dewis OBE. I…

For a while I’ve been pondering Ferrari’s naming strategy because, frankly, it seems all over the place. The range starts with the California, which is an old, emotive and very…

Well at last someone has put some figures to a situation we’ve known has existed for years, namely that car manufacturers have been actively manipulating mandatory EU tests to determine…

How big a story would it be were it to become clear that Audi was going to bin both its WEC and DTM programmes and take part in Formula 1…

The Spa Six Hours. Sounds glamorous doesn’t it? Sounds like it should be stock full of low slung slices of exotica staffed by snake-hipped professional drivers who’ve just passed their…

If you are reading this on Wednesday and happen to have a glass in your hand, please raise it to Sir Stirling Moss on the occasion of his 85th birthday. He is,…

There aren’t many facts likely to make me feel older this week than that on Wednesday Derek Warwick will celebrate his 60th birthday. This seems impossible but I’ve checked and it’s true.…