Road Cars

Like many of his fans the world over, I was saddened to hear that Carroll Shelby passed away last week. I only met him once, at Goodwood 10 or more…

The telephone rang. “Andrew, the car’s handling like a piece of sh*t.” Spared the usual introductions, this could only my Porsche 911 GT3 driving chum who’d bought the car on…

Probably the single most interesting exhibit at the Beijing Auto Show last week was an engine and a gearbox in a glass case on the Ferrari stand. Visually at least…

The Beijing Motorshow is, by some distance, the strangest car exhibition it has been my pleasure to attend. Here, spreadeagled across nine colossal halls, the cream of European automotive nobility…

Press releases are usually pretty turgid affairs. And then, just once in a while, you get one that makes you put down your coffee, read, re-read and then check the…

One of the more popular assumptions among the car buying public is that there is no longer any such thing as a bad car. People tell me this with some…

If any group of people were left looking more idiotic than the Government after its bungled handling of the only alleged fuel crisis, it was the general public. Whipped up…

Although I’ve driven several, for the first time last week I actually got to live with a Nissan Leaf for a few days. This is the car I helped install…

If I say 'three cylinders' to you, what pictures fill your mind? To me its images of tiny Japanese microcars that only ever leave their home islands by way of…

Every car manufacturer wants to be the talk of every car show it attends. But whether Bentley will appreciate the media storm unleashed by the reveal of its new SUV…

Cast your mind back 12 short years to the turn of the century. You may remember the country in general and hauliers in particular got themselves into something of a…

One of many displacement activities motoring journalists like to dress up as work is idly leafing through the classifieds gazing wistfully at all the second-hand cars they can’t afford: this…

Every year, the Car of the Year jury gets together with all the shortlisted cars to put them through their paces. Actually that’s not entirely true. Of the 59 jurors,…

It has taken a while coming, but there is increasing recognition among major car manufacturers in the world that if you are to design a car with a truly outstanding…

News that Land Rover is considering building the new Defender in India has already been greeted with some fairly predictable howls of outrage from those thinking that a Defender not…

A moment of idleness turned into an interesting experiment last week. Having succumbed some time ago to the somewhat dubious charms of Twitter I posted a tweet asking if a…

Just when you thought you’d mentally sorted your plug-in hybrids from your range extenders, your NiMh batteries from your lithium-ions, steel yourself for another twist in the hybrid tale, heading…