I grew up in a household where adding the prefix ‘Persil’ was the only way to turn ‘automatic’ into a less than dirty word. We didn’t simply not care for…
Sometime in the next week I shall go for a ride in the new Jaguar F-type and I don’t quite know what to think about it. I’d appreciate your thoughts,…
It is fair to say that electric car sales are not what their creators had hoped for. Renault in particular threw its full weight behind these so-called zero-emissions cars (the…
Bentley is showing its fastest-ever open car at the Detroit motor show. The Continental GTC Speed is powered by a 616bhp version of its evergreen 6-litre W12 motor, enough says…
It is inevitable in an industry that’s as old and far reaching as ours that every year brings a smattering of significant anniversaries. Even so, I think 2013 has more…
Regular readers may remember back in November I asked you to advise me what cheap and fun old car I should buy to replace my under-utilised old 911. The response…
When looking back over the year to pick my highlight, there were so many events that jumped out at me. Pastor Maldonado briefly rekindling my childhood excitement at seeing a…
Had he done so I would have written about Alonso winning the World Championship because if you look back over time, very few drivers have won titles in the second…
At 9am this morning, Jaguar announced that it had cancelled the C-X75 supercar programme. First shown in September 2010 and confirmed for production the following Spring, the radical hybrid seen…
What would think of a car so totally in touch with its surroundings it was almost impossible to crash? A good thing, surely? Well maybe. Next year Mercedes will launch…
I wonder if anyone else is feeling a sense of déjà vu as stories circulate that Aston Martin, or at least half of it, is up for sale once more.…
Last week I wrote about getting nicked for speeding in my old 911. This week I sold the car. The two events are entirely unrelated and took place over three…
A friend has been summoned to a road safety awareness course in lieu of three points on his licence. Three years ago I attended one myself having been gunned at…
It seems as far fetched as a Hollywood A-lister marrying a girl from The Mumbles but Renault, a vast, multi-national that’s part of the fourth largest car group in the…
A few weeks back I was at the Bedford Autodrome when a Morgan 3 Wheeler suffered a suspension failure. I was some distance away and saw only the aftermath of…
In more private moments, those among the braver employees of McLaren Automotive will concede that the MP4-12C supercar was not quite the finished item when sales began a year or…
