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.
Theresa May might have been aiming for greater diversity in her recent Cabinet reshuffle. However, if the Prime Minister wants to see a real example of how to do it she need look no further than th...
It’s a car-tastrophe! New car sales are down by 5.7% in 2017 compared to the previous year. Run for the hills, or at least drive there in your crossover. If you read all of the headlines about the...
This week’s Budget was always going to be a tightrope effort from the chancellor. Never mind his political career supposedly hanging in the balance, Philip Hammond was trying to please so many comp...
Bob Lutz is a man with vision. You might not like what his view is or agree with his predictions about our automotive future, but he has a record of being right. Admittedly, many of his prediction...
“A hardcore smackdown” is how Elon Musk describes his latest new car reveal, the Roadster. It arrived with no pre-launch hype or publicity. Instead, it emerged as a surprise from the trailer of Mus...
A sad day? Bad day? Maybe even a long overdue day? Whatever way you look at it, it has finally come and Subaru is waving a teary goodbye to the WRX STI – the last in the line of fast Imprezas that ...
You could be forgiven for thinking the only new cars being launched or revealed at motorshows are small SUVs nowadays. However, the Tokyo Motor Show went its own way, as usual, and showed us there’...
Launching a new car is one thing, starting a whole new car brand is something else altogether. Yet that’s what we’ve witnessed in the past few days with the arrival of Polestar. Okay, so the new f...
There must be a collective sigh of relief being breathed around the boardroom of Land Rover. Just as the case was building against diesel power, the British firm has announced not one but two plug-...