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…
I wonder if anyone else is feeling a sense of déjà vu as stories circulate that Aston Martin, or at least half of it, is up for sale once more.…
Last week I wrote about getting nicked for speeding in my old 911. This week I sold the car. The two events are entirely unrelated and took place over three…
A friend has been summoned to a road safety awareness course in lieu of three points on his licence. Three years ago I attended one myself having been gunned at…
It seems as far fetched as a Hollywood A-lister marrying a girl from The Mumbles but Renault, a vast, multi-national that’s part of the fourth largest car group in the…
A few weeks back I was at the Bedford Autodrome when a Morgan 3 Wheeler suffered a suspension failure. I was some distance away and saw only the aftermath of…
In more private moments, those among the braver employees of McLaren Automotive will concede that the MP4-12C supercar was not quite the finished item when sales began a year or…
Last week I speculated that McLaren would unveil the successor to the F1 at the Paris Motorshow so, of course, no sooner were the words up on the website than…
If the rumours are true, next week McLaren will unveil the successor to the F1, probably the most fabled and certainly the most valuable production supercar that has ever been…
I think I drove the new Audi A3 last week. I am aware that one of the more important qualifications of those of us who drive cars for living is…
Yesterday one of the car world’s worst kept secrets finally became official. For the third time, Peugeot is to attempt to replace the 205GTI (below). Logically enough, the new car…
Don’t ask how it happened, but last weekend I took three Fiat 500s to the pub. In fact three of us took one each to a pub, had a swift…
