‘Honey, I shrunk the XF’ could well be the cry from many Jaguar owners should they take the plunge and buy the British firm’s new entrant into the compact executive market. Revealed this week amid...
My email inbox is not the sort of place to engender excitement usually, but one subject line caught the eye recently. It stated ‘Original examples of Ford’s GT40 are now mega valuable’. Hardly new...
October will see Paris host its bi-annual motor show with every major car maker in the world descending on the French capital to parade its latest metal. It’s a big deal even for a city as prolific...
What exactly is the difference between a car and a light aeroplane? Well, apart from the fact that aeroplanes work in three dimensions rather than two, not much. Both are essentially small metal bo...
Any death on our roads is a tragedy, but one that is completely preventable and entirely down to the selfish, stupid actions of another driver is reprehensible beyond all words. For this reason, a ...
I’ve read a few things recently about the success of the British automotive industry. Just yesterday, it was announced that UK car exports reached five million this decade. Of course, this is ‘wond...
The English Channel may only be 26 miles wide between the closest parts of the UK and France, but it might as well be a gulf when it comes to the car industries of the two nations. While the UK’s ...
Car parks are places where humans forget others are around, a few minutes driver-watching can reveal just how fascinating and terrifying modern drivers can be.
‘Vehicle Excise Duty’, ‘road tax’, whatever you want to call it, nobody likes it and nobody wants to pay it even when it’s as little as £20 a year. Everyone from private motorists to fleet manager...
The trend for downsizing engines is now well established among car makers, as is the fascination with making cars lighter. By dropping an engine size or two, car makers are able to shimmy into emis...