Are car journalists 'bought'?
I recently spent a week in Japan attending the Tokyo Motorshow and, among other less relevant things, driving the new Honda Civic Type-R. And when I explained the mechanics of…
Ever so slowly, a sleeping giant is being woken. The Honda we remember from its halcyon days of the NSX, Type-Rs and Formula 1 may seem a distant memory, but…
Are you any nearer wanting an electric car than you were when the Nissan Leaf was launched three years ago? Me neither. Or at least I’d have said that a…
Not being a whizz when it comes to business matters, it seems astonishing that the board of Morgan can chuck the grandson of the company’s founder out on his ear…
One day soon when cars have learned how to drive themselves - and it’s not even decades let alone centuries away – someone will sit down to write a history…
Koenigsegg, the Swedish supercar manufacturer, has just announced the latest version of its Agera supercar, along with the news that it will be allegedly capable of 280mph, and I’d just…
This is why I love Italy. Last night we turned up at the Balocco test track to attend the press conference that preceded driving Alfa Romeo’s 4C coupe today. These…
The secret is out. Ish. Jaguar has released the first picture of a new car and so the endless process to tease every possible column inch of coverage commences, a…
I fear I may have been taking my own advice a little too seriously. Almost exactly a year ago in this very slot I wrote about driving three Fiat 500s…
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…