Christmas away, part 2

Christmas is a time of comforting traditions, isn’t it? In our household, Christmas begins in early December with a showing of The Muppet Christmas Carol while we wrestle the Christmas tree into place

I“’m dreaming of a white Christmas”: it’s a refrain that we’ve been hearing and singing for 83 years now. The probability of that dream coming to fruition varies by abode, of course, but is always pre

All self-respecting Christmas stories start in one of two places: Bethlehem or the North Pole. The former is firm favourite if the Almighty is featured in the narrative; the Arctic Pole is the preferr

Speed, we often point out, is a commodity less freely available to drivers on British roads than it used to be. On safety grounds that’s probably okay, given the growing population of cars and the fai

With up to two weeks of holiday time to kill this Christmas, you may be wondering how best to fill the days either side of the main event. Well, wonder no more, because we have a stocking-load of idea

While Autocar’s road testers exchange exotic key fobs over Christmas lunch at some richly upholstered ale house at the crowded end of Britain, there’s no such indulgence for those of us in Scotland. H