For the first time since it took a controlling interest in 1969, Fiat and Ferrari will effectively become different companies once more by this time next year. As part of…
Ironically, Top Gear’s Stig is actually a very eloquent bloke. Ben Collins is no longer The Stig, though – that title now falls at the race-booted feet of another driver (rumour…
How betrayed should those of us who love thoroughbred sports cars feel when their manufacturers decide to slap their names on the sides of two-tonne SUVs? On one level it…
Like me you may be watching with ever increasing astonishment as classic car prices climb through the roof, up through the cloud base and into the stratosphere. I wrote a few…
After last (Monday) night, when we get to drive it, the new Jaguar XE had better be good. In more than 25 years attending car unveilings, I’ve never seen anything quite like…
This month Land Rover announced that its new Range Rover Sport was the fastest SUV yet to lap the infamous Nordschleife northern loop of the Nürburgring race track. Quite what…
Earlier this year BMW posted a corporate video on YouTube. In all regards bar one, it is entirely unremarkable. A man gets into an M235i on a test track and…
What, relative to expectations, is the worst motoring experience of your life? Mine was doing a lap of the Piccolo Circuito della Madonie, otherwise known as the Targa Florio course.…
I gave up the fruitless fight against the relentless advance of my middle years some time ago. I accept I will never again pick up a book without first picking…
A few weeks back, renown Porsche specialists Autofarm sold a 1973 Porsche 911 Carrera 2.7RS for £500,000. Once I’d read the release I felt the need to read it again…
When I learned to drive I was told to learn to ‘read the road’. What no-one thought to mention, then or since, is the only slightly less important skill of…
At last it was going to happen. The answer to the most meaningless yet somehow important question of the modern motoring age was about to be provided. On Saturday afternoon…
The reality gap between my professional life as a motoring journalist, and my personal life as a car enthusiast has never been wider. So far this year I have driven…
There’s something very strange about being asked to ‘bring warm coats and woolly hats’ to an event near Birmingham in July. OK, the British summer hasn’t been great so far…
Google has revealed more details of the autonomous car it is already testing on public roads in those states in the US where self-driving cars have been made legal. It’s…
I’m not sure why, but I was expecting a little more ceremony when I arrived in Maranello to drive the LaFerrari. By some margin this is the fastest, most powerful…
