Road Cars

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…

What do you think of the modern Mini? It’s a subject capable of inducing looks of dreamy, doe-eyed adoration in some and something closer to fuming apoplexy in others. No…

A new British sports car company has been created with a grand old name and a tub-thumpingly British (and really rather attractive) logo to go with it. Sadly that’s about…

Not all progress is in the right direction. We have watched for years as cars have grown heavier and less responsive and have required ever more powerful engines just to…

Hidden away at Southampton University is an engineering doctorate student called Rich McIlroy. He can be found in a pokey little room that is filled, almost entirely, by a Jaguar…

I recently spent a week in Japan attending the Tokyo Motorshow and, among other less relevant things, driving the new Honda Civic Type-R. And when I explained the mechanics of…

Ever so slowly, a sleeping giant is being woken. The Honda we remember from its halcyon days of the NSX, Type-Rs and Formula 1 may seem a distant memory, but…