Farewell Top Gear telly, we enjoyed your irreverent nonsense, smashing up cars and generally messing about. Hello new Top Gear. What you have in store is anyone’s guess, but I suspect it will be a...
It was my birthday recently and I received a present that initially made my heart sink. Nope, it wasn’t socks or soap on a rope, it was one accompanied by the dreaded words ‘you’ll enjoy building t...
Having the air-con on full whack with the windows down is as idiotic as trying to have a bath without putting the plug in.
These days it feels like the animosity between cyclists and drivers grows every rush hour. Take the infamous #BloodyCyclists episode, for example. More than two years have passed but it’s still goi...
The first significant block in the rebuilding of BBC’s Top Gear is in place and it’s a solid start as the world’s most popular motoring show reinvents itself post-Clarkson. Chris Evans believes he...
We’re forever being told that the car is the root cause of all pollution. Smog in Paris? Yep, that’s down to the traffic. Cancer in Hong Kong? Traffic again. The truth is, though, that the car isn...
The driving test has reached the venerable age of 80 years old in 2015. While it may have its failings, you cannot accuse the driving test of failing to move with the times, as proven by the first ...
Everyone says electric cars are the way forward, but I’ve spent two weeks of last month running electric vehicles (EVs) and, so far as I can tell, none of them have a real place in the present, let...
The cycle of fashion dictates that if you wait long enough, everything comes back into vogue. So it is with petrol engines right now, which are enjoying the warm glow of the spotlight once more now...
Treat others as you would like them to treat you and you’ll be amazed at the improvement in driving standards.