Eighty years ago this week the driving test was introduced, advising drivers on issues as broad as how to make clear hand signals and why it was poor form to…

Remember when 911s were tricky to drive? Of course Porsche’s rear engine masterpiece came with a reputation for being difficult almost from new, sufficiently so for Porsche to feel the…

As moments go it was one of the more surreal of recent times. It was 1.00am and I was sitting in a fold-up chair in a pit garage, clad in…

I only know one politician and we were chums long before he felt the call of his party. He is, at least as I write in this election week, the…

For years people like me have been moaning about the decline of manual gearboxes in the cars we like to drive, or at least would like to drive if we…

I am almost always delighted with any comment left after columns like this, because whether you agree with me or not, you’ve taken time to read what I have written…

What did you think of the race on Sunday? If you found it anything other than utterly spellbinding from flag to flag, it is possible you and I were tuned…

I have often wondered what that great engineer WO Bentley would have made of the turbocharger. His view of the supercharger is well known, as he once famously fumed that…

Sebastian Vettel’s victory this weekend was not the first time Ferrari has unexpectedly beaten a dominant Mercedes-Benz racing team, but it was the first I can recall in which Ferrari…

McLaren the Formula 1 team may be having the most woeful start to season in its history, but it has not stopped McLaren the road car constructor forging ahead. It…

Car manufacturers talk to car journalists in code. It goes like this: ‘We will never make a car like the one you are suggesting’ actually means there’s nothing like it…

I was fascinated to discover that Mercedes-Benz’s brand new AMG GT GT3 race car was, in one respect at least, not new at all. For years Mercedes had been hinting…