Steve cropley

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

Bright idea, because I’m on holiday: I reckon I’ll take our four-year-old Dacia Duster, grime-stained from cathartic trips to the dump, for a professional wash and polish. I head to my usual place and

Away for a few days with the Steering Committee in Stockholm, a holiday favourite. So much to enjoy in Sweden (steam ferries!) but one regret is a relative lack of city automotive interest; we car peo

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

What have I done? I have just spent about six times that which I’ve yet previously spent on a car, on a vehicle that has twice as many cylinders as I’m used to, will consume about double the amount of

It creeps up on you, the Vintage Sports Car Club’s two-day meeting at Prescott hillclimb near Cheltenham, because if you’re like me, you’ve already worked your way through six weeks of car festivals w