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 Paris Motor Show is just around the corner and it’s one of our favourites for many reasons. For starters, it’s on a much more manageable scale than the Frankfurt show that it alternates with. ...
The Volkswagen Kombi holds the record for the longest production for a van, lasting all the way from 1949 to 2013 to span 64 years in its various guises. It feels like this is how long we’ve been w...
£22 million sounds like a lot of money. To the average person on the street, it certainly is, but in the automotive world it’s a penny in the tin. That’s not being flippant, just a reality of the h...
Your car is taxed, insured and you have a full driving licence, yet you could still face having your licence revoked and car taken away. How so? It’s all to do with eyesight and a push by three pol...
When you’ve notched up 45 million sales of a single model line, you could be excused for thinking it was due for retirement. Perhaps that what Toyota thought when it discontinued its Corolla in Eur...
The driving test could be headed for the scrapheap. That’s what is being predicted by many, including CAP HPI, which has carried out research that reckons we won’t need a driving exam like the one ...
This isn’t a full-blown motorhome, but it will give the VW a run for its campervan money. This Mercedes is a classy challenger to the California. In a word: brilliant.
Oscar Wilde wrote that a cynic “knows the price of everything and the value of nothing”. So, was Tata being cynical when it launched its Nano in 2008 with the expectation that thousands would flock...
Regionality is prized in many areas of our life. From food to clothes, furniture to literature, and it’s also something that has a bearing on many drivers when choosing their next car. For many, ch...
In a political week characterised by chaos, there is one glimmer of clarity in the words of the Road to Zero document. This policy strategy outlines how the government intends to lead us to a count...