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.
The fallout from the Volkswagen emissions scandal shows no signs of easing two weeks on from the story breaking. Of course, something of this magnitude is going to rumble on for years as criminal i...
What’s the most important car of 2015? The Ferrari 488 perhaps, or the McLaren 675S? Or maybe the Land Rover Discovery Sport? While all of these cars are, of course, very interesting and exciting, ...
Where the USA leads, the Western World generally follows. This simple premise must be giving Volkswagen’s senior management palpitations as the storm over its violation of US emissions laws gathers...
You’ve got to hand it to the USA, they know how to do things big. Whether it’s a burger or skyscraper, those on the other side of the Atlantic generally do things on a grander scale, and so it is with their road safety awareness.
Not so long ago on a motorway near you, there was a battle raging between three rivals - Audi, BMW and Mercedes - and each wanted to be top dog in the small executive sector. They all still do wan...
Audi has come up trumps with the new A4. It has retained the classy, quality feel that has always marked out the A4 while addressing the obvious faults of the outgoing car. That makes all of Audi’s efforts to create an all-new A4 absolutely worthwhile.
Around 15 years ago, I went on a factory visit to Kia’s plant in South Korea. At the time, we were allowed to drive a selection of cars around the company’s on-site test track, which included some ...
How important is security to you when you choose your next car? For most of us, it’s something taken as a given that almost all modern cars are very resistant to thieves. However, recent reports of...
Many drivers’ personalities have a ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ element to them, and driving seems to draw out the latter all too readily. While a great many humans are very reasonable individuals in al...
Reeling off the most important and influential cars in history is a fairly easy exercise. Choose one or two cars from key periods in the development of the automobile and you soon have a list that’...