Road Cars

There are a few phrases a motoring journalist does not want to hear when testing a new car. These include: ‘we need it back in 10 minutes’, ‘we’ve jammed the…

This I will never understand. A car manufacturer goes to an international motor show and in advance invites members of the world’s press to interview its senior management. In short,…

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…

Adrian Newey, Christian Horner, Martin Brundle and David Coulthard were among the stars on hand to help launch the inaugural London Classic Car Show on Thursday night at the ExCel…

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…

Have you yet read anywhere that 2014 was a vintage year? Of course you have – it’s that time of year when everything is being reviewed and re-run because it’s…

When I first started doing this job, the kind of car you bought was determined by the class in which it sat. Back then, some time before the battle of…

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…

What are the chances of two car manufacturers based in the same city launching cars with the same name, which are direct rivals, some 6000 miles away from said city,…

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…

For the first time since it took a controlling interest in 1969, Fiat and Ferrari will effectively become different companies once more by this time next year. As part of…

Ironically, Top Gear’s Stig is actually a very eloquent bloke. Ben Collins is no longer The Stig, though – that title now falls at the race-booted feet of another driver (rumour…

How betrayed should those of us who love thoroughbred sports cars feel when their manufacturers decide to slap their names on the sides of two-tonne SUVs? On one level it…

Like me you may be watching with ever increasing astonishment as classic car prices climb through the roof, up through the cloud base and into the stratosphere. I wrote a few…

After last (Monday) night, when we get to drive it, the new Jaguar XE had better be good. In more than 25 years attending car unveilings, I’ve never seen anything quite like…

This month Land Rover announced that its new Range Rover Sport was the fastest SUV yet to lap the infamous Nordschleife northern loop of the Nürburgring race track. Quite what…

Earlier this year BMW posted a corporate video on YouTube. In all regards bar one, it is entirely unremarkable. A man gets into an M235i on a test track and…