I’ll admit that, thanks to the presence of a Peugeot 205GTI in my shed, I was more torn than usual about my hopes for the Peugeot’s third attempt to replace…
This week I want to talk about oversteer, that curious condition requiring you to steer a car in the other direction to that of the corner you are attempting to…
At one minute past midnight this morning, I became allowed to tell you I’ve driven the Jaguar F-type. In fact I’ve driven all three versions, the V6, V6S and V8S…
I am told with tedious regularity that there’s no such thing as a bad car any more. And while I refute the contention, even I must admit that the global…
Infiniti has announced that Sebastian Vettel is its new ‘Director of Performance’ which means you’re meant to believe that if you buy an Infiniti its performance will have been directed…
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…
