Road Cars

What, relative to expectations, is the worst motoring experience of your life? Mine was doing a lap of the Piccolo Circuito della Madonie, otherwise known as the Targa Florio course.…

I gave up the fruitless fight against the relentless advance of my middle years some time ago. I accept I will never again pick up a book without first picking…

A few weeks back, renown Porsche specialists Autofarm sold a 1973 Porsche 911 Carrera 2.7RS for £500,000. Once I’d read the release I felt the need to read it again…

When I learned to drive I was told to learn to ‘read the road’. What no-one thought to mention, then or since, is the only slightly less important skill of…

The bodywork's glinting contours provide the answer to my four million-dollar question. The query had seemed valid: although undeniably beautiful, this car was essentially a flawed racing machine that only…

For a motoring journalist it's like being let out of prison. Six years after the accident which paralysed most of my body and my hands, I am finally behind the…

There's lots to dislike here, from the terrible looks to its terrible name. BMW should just have called it the M1 and worn the carping from those saying it was…

At last it was going to happen. The answer to the most meaningless yet somehow important question of the modern motoring age was about to be provided. On Saturday afternoon…

The reality gap between my professional life as a motoring journalist, and my personal life as a car enthusiast has never been wider. So far this year I have driven…

There’s something very strange about being asked to ‘bring warm coats and woolly hats’ to an event near Birmingham in July. OK, the British summer hasn’t been great so far…

Google has revealed more details of the autonomous car it is already testing on public roads in those states in the US where self-driving cars have been made legal. It’s…

I’m not sure why, but I was expecting a little more ceremony when I arrived in Maranello to drive the LaFerrari. By some margin this is the fastest, most powerful…

I went to see Bentley in Crewe on Wednesday for reasons that will become apparent in a few weeks time, and was lucky enough to be given a tour of the factory.…

Some of you might remember that last year I finally satiated my curious craving for a very slow, two cylinder, air-cooled car with suicide doors. Or at least I thought…

I’m not sure I like the term ‘hypercar’. I first remember seeing it 20 odd years ago when the likes of the McLaren F1, Jaguar XJ220 and Bugatti EB110 took…

As is the way of such things, last week’s Geneva Motorshow was heaving with vastly expensive, entirely impractical and, for the most part, somewhat irrelevant product. I have no problem…

Last night I attended the get together that VW hosts on the eve of every major motorshow around the world, in this case Geneva. A get together, that is, for…