"The Volkswagen Golf has been a pioneer for the past five decades. Style, quality, and refinement have elevated VW’s classless hatchback above the family car norm. And that’s without mentioning its most famous iteration, the GTI. But there’"
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Why become a driving instructor?
"What, you may well ask, would cause a 55-year-old software engineer to suddenly decide to become a driving instructor? Good question! Well, for me a number of disparate factors came together to coincide with a tempting offer of a voluntary "
Testing times
"The 15th October 1991 is a day that I’ll never forget. It was the day that I felt like I’d finally become a proper grown up as I heard those immortal words… 'You’ve Passed!’ I was never really "
Learning to drive in the US – from a parent’s perspective
"Across the table at my Mother's Day breakfast, my Number One son revealed to me that he recently had an "incident" in his car, and that it's going to cost him $1500 to fix the paint on the bumper he tapped "
The learner car. What makes a good one, and what’s the most popular?
"The learner car. What a life. Firstly, does anyone else ever anthropomorphise cars into having human-like emotions and feelings? If not, bear with me. Imagine you’re a new car, pleased at being bought new and then discovering you’re "
Tim Harvey – M3 Master
"It’s often the ones you least expect. Isn’t it? Pass Tim Harvey as he walks through a paddock, you'll see he'll probably be smiling from ear to ear, chatting amiably to Nomax-clad sponsor-heavy racing drivers, or leathery-palmed mechanics, "
M3’s rivals – do they offer a real threat?
"A quick look at the UK’s most familiar used car website at the time of writing shows you that the most common year of manufacture of an M3 currently for sale is 2008 – so an early E90/92/93 model. These range "
Before the M3 – BMW 2002 Turbo
"An M3 for the 1970s: focus on the legendary BMW 2002 Turbo When BMW moved away from naturally-aspirated power for the 2014 M3, slotting in a 3-litre twin-turbo powerplant, it left furrowed brows among traditionalists. But it was far from the first "
Enter the Capri
"The first Ford Capri wasn’t a Capri. Not as you know it. The first Ford Capri was actually a a sleek, two door streamliner version of the odd looking Consul. it was, as Billy Bragg suggested to us a "
Legend: Ford Capri
"I guess my interest in Ford Capri started in 1972 when I was 9 years old. I was given a copy of The Observer Book of Automobiles as a present by my parents. I found it fascinating. I loved all different sorts "
Ford Capri: Autoerotica
"If you’re of a certain age you’ll remember Martin Shaw for his fully permed, street smart, ex-cop incarnation - Ray Doyle - of Criminal Intelligence 5 fame. Like me, you probably sat up with your Dad and watched the "
Capri: Bucket List
"Any Ford Capri owner will love the car that they live with. But we asked our resident Fordists to name the Capris they would love to own... Mk 1 1600: White, with black vinyl roof for us. The performance of the original "
Finding Richard Burns and Colin McRae – part 3: WRX STi’s final stage
"It was all coming to an end very quickly. Quick just seems to be the theme around a Subaru WRX STi. Our final day had dawned on our trip through Snowdonia in the blue beast, and as we’d come "