Why i love... american road trips

Editor Mark Tisshaw and I were chatting over the phone, inevitably about the car industry and specifically about the fragments of information that have recently emerged about Ford’s plans for a bigger

For years, some of the more committed car makers had been quietly logging Nürburgring Nordschleife lap times for internal benchmarking and the odd press release. But then in 2008, Porsche suggested Ni

For the English leg of this four part roadtrip, we could have planned a picturesque route through the Peak District or across the North York Moors. We could have crossed both the Lake District and the

WHOEVER COINED the phrase ‘don’t mix business with pleasure’ certainly wasn’t offered the use of a VW California Ocean for the week. Handily, that’s not a mantra I live by, and I was quick to point ou

Car launches are strange but wonderful things. A tense battle of wits between PRs and journalists played out in stunning locations. Every detail is meticulously planned, from the road route to the sea

TWO LETTERS in Octane 267 have prompted me to write: the first from Rody O’Grady about his £2400 Renault Megane 225, which highlights the broad range of cars that you feature, and Gerard McCartney’s a