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.
If you’ve not seen it already, Bugatti has announced a new car. Called the Bugatti Bolide, it makes all its products launched since the 986bhp Veyron in 2005 look somewhat…
Sixty two years ago today, Tony Vandervell’s dream of beating Ferrari at the top level, a dream he had nurtured for most of the 1950s, finally came true. This was…
McLaren Automotive must be hoping that the next ten years follows a smoother trajectory than its first. The start was horrendous – its launch car, the MP4-12C was introduced before…
I hope that the response of the general public to the reveal of the new BMW M3 and M4 is somewhat more charitable than that I’ve seen among the diehard…
In my early career before inconveniences like children, I often toyed with the idea of becoming a Formula 1 journalist. And as a recently departed editor of this title, I…
In this business there aren’t many things I enjoy doing more than sitting down with Gordon Murray, and I include those involving having a steering wheel in my hands. It’s…
It was, I think, better than any of us expected and all but the most dreamy of optimists hoped. Formula 1’s return to racing after seven months away produced an…
There are very few engines that have become so indivisible from their creator that it’s hard to mention them without their names too. I guess you could include the Cosworth…
There has been a certain amount of low level crowing in the industry at the departure of Andy Palmer from the saddle of Aston Martin. Some thought he should have…
It is of course entirely possible that in a month or two a vaccine will have been found, tested, found safe and the general population inoculated against this awful virus.…
The private funeral of Sir Stirling Moss took place last Friday. A celebration of his life will be held when restrictions allow
Every editor has one. The issue. The one that when they look back from a distance best measurable not in months or years, but decades, is the one that best…
