After an inglorious stint in the City convinced him that he could handle cars better than he handled money, Andrew joined Autocar many years ago as a junior tester. Since then he has become one of the industry’s senior figures. Editor of Motor Sport for five years, he now runs our road test section.
Am I alone in still goggling at some of the prices paid for Aston Martins at Bonhams’ sale at Newport Pagnell a couple of weeks back? My eyebrows didn’t shoot…
Approaching Tertre Rouge at 130mph in the Toyota TS030, the words of Sébastien Buemi came back to me. ‘You can get through with only a lift, but you have to…
Spare a moment if you will for one Sigmar Gabriel, chairman of the German Social Democratic Party who took the highly courageous move last week of proposing a blanket speed…
I’ll admit that, thanks to the presence of a Peugeot 205GTI in my shed, I was more torn than usual about my hopes for the Peugeot’s third attempt to replace…
This column was originally intended to be a reflection on the weekend’s Donington Historic Festival which, for two of its three days was one of the happiest motor racing meetings…
This week I want to talk about oversteer, that curious condition requiring you to steer a car in the other direction to that of the corner you are attempting to…
At one minute past midnight this morning, I became allowed to tell you I’ve driven the Jaguar F-type. In fact I’ve driven all three versions, the V6, V6S and V8S…
I am told with tedious regularity that there’s no such thing as a bad car any more. And while I refute the contention, even I must admit that the global…
Infiniti has announced that Sebastian Vettel is its new ‘Director of Performance’ which means you’re meant to believe that if you buy an Infiniti its performance will have been directed…
I was at school on my 17th birthday which is the only reason that was not also the date on which I passed my driving test. I didn’t pass on…
With the prices of classic cars apparently immune to the ill-effects of a flat-lining economy and all capital gains derived from them being equally immune to the enquiries of the…
Like most of us I am waiting for Ron Howard’s Niki Lauda biopic Rush with a mixture of heady anticipation and just a little nervousness. Howard is a usually safe pair…
