"Our Japanese friends are a thoughtful, spiritual lot. It was their spiritual reflections on the famous lightweight British sports cars of the 60s and 70s that led them down the path to creating what was to eventually become the world’"
Miataland
"First unveiled in 1989 at the Chicago Auto Show, The Mazda MX5 has been around for a while now, and shows no sign of losing its popularity as a beautifully engineered roadster. Now in its fourth incarnation, the styling, sophistication and "
Racing Dynasty: The Andretti family
"Motor-racing is more than just cars going around in circles, it is a community bound by the love of what it is partaking in. In this sense it is almost like a family. In light of this we thought we’"
Toyota 2000GT – 50 years an icon
"Japanese cars aren’t supposed to be beautiful are they? They’re meant to be functional and affordable, the sort of machines that have been designed and built by scientists and doctors rather than artists. 50 years ago there was a "
Hello Again: Project 917, what’s new?
"Back in 2016 we introduced you to Project 917, a project with the predominant intention of bringing a great name from motor-racing’s history back into the present. Fortunately, we can provide you with a major update on this very exciting project. "
Drift Outlaws
"Wah… wah wah… waaaaah!! In stabs and ricochets, a deep-lunged bellow thumps out of the gloom. Far over to our right, beneath the ageing concrete flyover, a square-edged shape pivots through 90 degrees and launches into the sunlight. Squinting, you can "
Volkswagen Golf GTD: 35 years of fast and frugal fun
"The Volkswagen Golf has been a pioneer for the past four decades. Style, quality, and refinement have elevated VW’s classless hatchback above the family car norm. And that’s without mention of its most famous iteration, the GTI. But, "
TT RS – does Audi know best?
"It’s divided opinion, this one. Since the first two articles on this car my social media has been filled with comments suggesting the TT RS isn’t a sports car and isn’t worth the money that is being "
Influx Social
“Mr Rover SD1” brings touring car legend back to life
"There was to be a lump in Ken Clarke’s throat when he positioned this car onto the grid at Brands Hatch. Because this wasn’t any old race-car. And for Clarke, this wasn’t any old race. We caught "
Electric 911
"The sheep looked around suddenly and had every right to look baffled. Sheep don’t generally expect to be stalked silently by a 1979 Porsche 911 Targa. Yet, here it was, the smooth, low-slung bonnet and iconic slightly oval headlight surrounds within "
Mille Miglia 2017
"Almost 450 cars from 43 countries; 84 automotive brands, four days’ driving from Brescia to Rome and back to Brescia through cities, small villages, coast, mountains and hills and even a Tornado base path. It's 2017 Mille Miglia. When I think about the most "
Jay Shepherd – Custom Bike Build
"The days of working on your own bike (or car) have been pretty scarce in more recent years, but custom-builds are gradually becoming more and more popular. Jay Shepherd tells us his story. As a self-employed builder, Jay’s bike "
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 "
