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 announcement of a brand new London Motor Show may have ducked under your radar. Despite the show and its dates in May 2016 being revealed by Prince Michael of Kent, the unveil was at a motoring...
Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it, and this is never more the case than when politicians have a bright idea. The latest bright idea is the Chancellor’s plan to spend £15 billion on n...
Audi rarely misses the opportunity to be first into a niche or at least among the vanguard to exploit it, but it has to admit to being a little slow to launch a plug-in hybrid. The A3 Sportback e-t...
I have a problem with crossovers. For starters, I don’t like the name as it offends the orderly monitor in my mind by placing a car in more than one camp. Another reason is a car that tries to be m...
Lamborghini is not a company known for making compromises with its cars. From the very first in the 1960s all the way to the current big daddy Aventador, ‘uncompromising’ is a word that regularly c...
Pictures speak a thousand words but first-hand experience can leave you speechless. This was the way I felt after a demonstration of different tyre tread depths in wet weather conditions.
The Scottish Government will introduce a reduced drink-drive limit north of the border from December 5, and it has already caused a major stir in the rest of the UK. The reasons for reducing the dr...