Alisdair started writing about cars in 1993 while studying for a journalism degree and has never stopped. He's worked as road test editor for What Car and continues to write new car reviews, news, features and opinion columns. He’s driven virtually every new car over the past 25 years and enjoys historic hillclimbing in his Sylva.
A storm in a Twitter cup has blown up over comments made by road safety charity Brake. They concern overtaking, which a spokesman for Brake described as an “aggressive and selfish manoeuvre”. This...
Easter is a time for chocolate eggs, bunnies and resurrection. That last element may well be playing on Jeep’s mind as it gets together for its yearly pow-wow in the Moab Desert. The annual Easter...
A ban on the sale of all new petrol and diesel cars by 2040 has seemed a rather abstract notion. After all, it’s far enough away for us not to worry about it too much in the here and now. Lop 10 ye...
Concept cars are wonderful, crazy, outlandish, tempting glimpses of a future that may or may not happen. In light of the sheer amount of concept cars on show at the 2018 Geneva Motor Show, and give...
The diesel engine has turned into a huge wounded beast lurching from damaging blow to the next. The latest salvo comes from Germany where the cities of Leipzig and Stuttgart have been told by the F...
Cars and woman. The two seem to have become inextricably linked at motor shows and in motorsport that many of us have barely stopped to think about it. But times have changed, and in the wake of ...
BMW has not been shy about attracting controversial reactions to its cars’ styling over the past couple of decades. It all started with the Chris Bangle-penned 7 Series of 2002 that ushered in a mu...
It is in the nature of Police Chief Constables to be very considered and balanced in their statements. So, you have to presume that Anthony Bangham, the Chief Constable of West Mercia Police, knew...
Advertising is everywhere and it’s estimated we’re subjected to as many as 5,000 adverts daily. How much of that information we take in and act on is another question, but now there’s another way i...
Barely a day goes by when there’s a not another announcement about the future of electric cars and autonomous technology to guide them. It has become an overwhelming tidal wave of fact, speculation...