I suppose it is just possible that it was not me who had the broadest choice of motoring pleasures at his or her disposal this past weekend. Someone, somewhere, may…
Buy a Land Rover Defender and you’ll have all the fun you can handle in the off-road environment. Buy a Caterham Seven and you’ll have much the same sort of…
For some time now I have wondered whether, given enough exposure and shared adventure, any car could crawl its way into your affections however unlovely upon first acquaintance it might…
It must be a constant irritation to the staff at McLaren Automotive to hear people suggesting that McLaren’s lack of form on the racetrack is in some way connected to…
For those of us who spend a wholly unrealistic amount of our lives charging around in hugely powerful cars, there is no reality check more effective than a new Mazda…
I may be pushing the boundaries of my brief here, but if I promise not to mention it again can I discuss the future of what I am told was…
The new Ferrari 488 GTB never seems more absurdly fast than when you consider where it came from. Trace the line of mid-engined, two-seater Ferraris that preceded it and it…
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…
By Ross Jamieson As the chairman of Ferrari from 1991-2014, Luca di Montezemolo reigned over the Scuderia for each of the 11 Formula 1 titles amassed between ’99 and ’05.…
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…
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…
