Road Cars

When did you last see a nice old car on the road? I can’t even remember. Of course there are reasons: it’s the wrong time of year and all the…

The name. I don’t like the name. Moderna. It sounds like someone trying to say the name of an Italian city in a silly accent. And a vaccine. Think about…

Sebastian Vettel is selling eight supercars from his collection, including several Ferraris bought while he was driving for the team. In what is described as "a little bit of collection…

Sometimes a car company launches a new car whose significance goes far beyond its price and position in the range. In effect it resets the company. Volkswagen did this last…

Ask any pre-war car fan what marque he or she would most like to discover tucked away in a barn, and there’s a good chance that Bugatti will be at…

Eight cylinders or 12? Doesn't seem like much of an argument to be had. Eights are great but 12s are, well, something else. Certainly that’s true of Aston Martins and…

There are few cars I've found more frustrating than the Fiat 500 during the last dozen years or so it’s been on sale. I just didn’t understand how so many…

The Roma is not just a new Ferrari, but a new kind of Ferrari. Or, at the very least, one we’ve not seen for a long time. For over 50…

Elsewhere in this issue you will find my review of the Ferrari Roma, so I won’t let it delay us here except to say that when I drove it, it…

More than 40 years after it rolled off the production line, Aston Martin’s Bulldog supercar will finally get its chance to crack the 200mph barrier, with marque veteran Darren Turner…

The car industry was an exciting place in the 1960s. Engineering and production techniques were improving rapidly and many brands opted to switch focus towards beautiful, svelte, sporty offerings such…

I have never known it happen before without the company concerned going to the wall, but on Monday Lotus announced it would, during the course of this year, cease production…

There is no doubt about it that, for good or ill, 2021 will be year in which electrification stopped being a subject more talked about than acted upon and became…

When Herbert Austin converted his billiard room into a drawing office and tasked a young draughtsman from the ‘works’ to help design a small car, the result was the landmark…

Many of you will have heard of Manthey-Racing, the most successful and respected of all private Porsche race teams today, so much so that it is no longer private at…

It is meant to be one of ‘those’ moments. A landmark in the history of Volkswagen to which only two others can compare: the launch of the Type 1 (aka…

The first Alpina I drove was a 3 Series-based like this one, and I broke it. It was 1988 and it was my job to record its acceleration. The problem…