Steve cropley

Last week’s motorsport fun (I ran Autocar’s electric Renault 5 in a Cornwall sprint) sent me into one of those urgent moods of car desire that stay with you after you’ve had a really good time. Sprint

Excited and apprehensive, I’m driving my Renault 5 long-termer 190 miles from home to Watergate Bay, Cornwall, for the local car club’s annual sprint. For two days a year, they close the road between

Weird Lives We Lead, No94. Matt Prior and I, who for three years have met weekly to do our podcast, realised today that crazy colliding commitments meant the only possible time to record was at 8am to

The latest Bicester Scramble was the best ever, I reckon. The world’s most welcoming venue was packed with interesting cars – a perfect mixture of new arrivals and old friends. Come to think of it, mo

An Ineos Grenadier pick-up (aka Quartermaster) might seem an odd conveyance for my journey to Goodwood for the first day of the Revival, but it turned out to be thoroughly good news – first because of

Compared with his slick-haired, sharp-suited predecessor, Luca de Meo, new Renault Group CEO François Provost has a decidedly professorial air about him. His suit and tie, his neat haircut and even hi