I see reports in the press promising that TVRs will be back on sale by 2015. I note the man who now chairs the company cheerfully admits he has no…
Gumpert is not a ‘fast’ word. Neither is Koenigsegg (I struggle just to pronounce that one). As for the INNOTECH Aspiron, that sounds less like a supercar and more like…
A hundred years ago, four Rolls-Royce Ghosts left England bound for the Alps. Three were factory prepared cars, one was owned by a private entrant called James Radley, among whose…
Am I alone in still goggling at some of the prices paid for Aston Martins at Bonhams’ sale at Newport Pagnell a couple of weeks back? My eyebrows didn’t shoot…
Spare a moment if you will for one Sigmar Gabriel, chairman of the German Social Democratic Party who took the highly courageous move last week of proposing a blanket speed…
I’ll admit that, thanks to the presence of a Peugeot 205GTI in my shed, I was more torn than usual about my hopes for the Peugeot’s third attempt to replace…
This week I want to talk about oversteer, that curious condition requiring you to steer a car in the other direction to that of the corner you are attempting to…
At one minute past midnight this morning, I became allowed to tell you I’ve driven the Jaguar F-type. In fact I’ve driven all three versions, the V6, V6S and V8S…
I am told with tedious regularity that there’s no such thing as a bad car any more. And while I refute the contention, even I must admit that the global…
Infiniti has announced that Sebastian Vettel is its new ‘Director of Performance’ which means you’re meant to believe that if you buy an Infiniti its performance will have been directed…
I was at school on my 17th birthday which is the only reason that was not also the date on which I passed my driving test. I didn’t pass on…
With the prices of classic cars apparently immune to the ill-effects of a flat-lining economy and all capital gains derived from them being equally immune to the enquiries of the…
In the April issue of Motor Sport, Simon Taylor sat down for lunch with Norman Dewis, Jaguar's long-serving test driver. Norman talked about his experience at Jabbeke in Belgium in…
So it’s called the ‘LaFerrari’ as, I understand, it is meant to encapsulate everything for which Maranello stands in the 21st century. Ferrari’s fastest, most powerful and expensive car is…
McLaren is just about to launch a road car with more power than its current Formula 1 car. Does that strike anyone else as a little odd? It says a…
We’re just two weeks from press day for the Geneva Motorshow, the single most important annual event in the diary of most motoring journalists, the one even those with an…
