Road Cars

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…

What do a Porsche Boxster, a BMW 528i SE, a Jaguar XF 3.0 V6 diesel and a London Taxi TX4 Elegance Automatic have in common? That’s right: they all cost…

Here’s one way in which at least part of the world is changing. Twenty years ago Italy was one of Ferrari’s top three markets, vying for the top position with…

It was an impromptu experiment but, though I say it myself, one that worked well. I’ve just spent the weekend swapping between a pair of sports cars with results I’d…

The last time I saw Carroll Shelby was at the Los Angeles Auto Show in the autumn. He was there to unveil the latest car to bear his name. When…

I have a friend who is very good at what she does, but knows less about cars than I do about string theory. A month or so ago she had…

I am aware of nothing more ridiculous in the entire car industry than the way in which CO2 emissions are measured. Were this a small side issue, an unimportant statistical…