Is Lotus really going to shut its Hethel factory? Personally, and despite the company saying it has “no plans” to do so, I would not bet against it. We had…
One of the first big jobs I did as a young road tester was to pit a Morgan Plus Eight against an E30-series BMW M3 convertible. The outcome may seem…
Long chat with Gordon Murray after what seems like far too long. As you read this the South African-born son of Scottish parents will have just entered his 80th year,…
It gives me no pleasure to say it, but the only true BMW M car of recent times to which I’ve felt a proper connection is the baby of them…
The news that the threatened 25% tariff on car exports from the UK to the US has been reduced to 10% is clearly to be welcomed. For some companies I…
As a child, Lamborghini was the evil empire. I was a Ferrari man and the only explanation I could find to explain why Boxers and Testarossae always lost comparison tests…
The single-biggest headache faced by the UK car industry in relation to Donald Trump’s tariffs is that no one knows almost from one day to the next what he’s going…
Hurtling across a mountainside at some unmentionable speed in the new Aston Martin Vanquish, I was moved to wonder whether it is possible actually to have too much of a…
Far from rushing towards electrification, it is well known that every ‘legacy’ manufacturer with a history steeped in petrol and diesel cars has jammed on the brakes so hard I…
I don’t think there could be a greater expression of confidence in the brand than this. A very broad rule of thumb is that in most premium car ranges the…
I have for some time been pondering the timing of what might loosely be described as ‘peak car’. There is no question at all, at least in my mind, that…
You know that phrase ‘if it looks right, it is right’? Were that always the case the Ferrari Dino 206 S would have won every race it entered, probably lapping…
It was one of those moments when you just knew, and it took less than a mile. That was all the time I needed to know for certain that the…
First job of the new year? Drive a Dacia Duster from Wales to Belgium and back to attend the AGM of the Car of the Year jury on which I…
Recently, and in anticipation of the arrival of this very car, I found myself on a hillside with six generations that had gone before: the E28 original, the E34 that…
You’ll have been deluged with the images, goggled at the inexplicable video and been bombarded with all shades of opinion, but I just can’t not mention the Jaguar concept car.…
