Road Cars

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…

In the April issue of Motor Sport, Simon Taylor sat down for lunch with Norman Dewis, Jaguar's long-serving test driver. Norman talked about his experience at Jabbeke in Belgium in…

So it’s called the ‘LaFerrari’ as, I understand, it is meant to encapsulate everything for which Maranello stands in the 21st century. Ferrari’s fastest, most powerful and expensive car is…

McLaren is just about to launch a road car with more power than its current Formula 1 car. Does that strike anyone else as a little odd? It says a…

We’re just two weeks from press day for the Geneva Motorshow, the single most important annual event in the diary of most motoring journalists, the one even those with an…

I must be getting old: I am starting to think it’s possible for road cars to have too much power. I can remember suggesting as much to Gordon Murray when…

I grew up in a household where adding the prefix ‘Persil’ was the only way to turn ‘automatic’ into a less than dirty word. We didn’t simply not care for…

Sometime in the next week I shall go for a ride in the new Jaguar F-type and I don’t quite know what to think about it. I’d appreciate your thoughts,…

It is fair to say that electric car sales are not what their creators had hoped for. Renault in particular threw its full weight behind these so-called zero-emissions cars (the…

Bentley is showing its fastest-ever open car at the Detroit motor show. The Continental GTC Speed is powered by a 616bhp version of its evergreen 6-litre W12 motor, enough says…

It is inevitable in an industry that’s as old and far reaching as ours that every year brings a smattering of significant anniversaries. Even so, I think 2013 has more…

Regular readers may remember back in November I asked you to advise me what cheap and fun old car I should buy to replace my under-utilised old 911. The response…

When looking back over the year to pick my highlight, there were so many events that jumped out at me. Pastor Maldonado briefly rekindling my childhood excitement at seeing a…

Had he done so I would have written about Alonso winning the World Championship because if you look back over time, very few drivers have won titles in the second…

At 9am this morning, Jaguar announced that it had cancelled the C-X75 supercar programme. First shown in September 2010 and confirmed for production the following Spring, the radical hybrid seen…

What would think of a car so totally in touch with its surroundings it was almost impossible to crash? A good thing, surely? Well maybe. Next year Mercedes will launch…