Testing, testing

Now seems like a good time to address a topic that affects almost all of us drivers, and disproportionately through the winter months: cars with dashboards lit up like Christmas trees. I’ve driven ple

With the setting sun painting the sky with warm, golden hues, the Defender Octa stirred up a dramatic cloud of dust during our off-road triple test. Launching my drone to capture this spectacle from a

THE GOVERNMENT WILL launch a review into car headlight design as more and more drivers complain of being dazzled at night. A study by the Transport Research Laboratory, commissioned by the Department

T HE CAR PARK AT OUR HOTEL HAS TAKEN ON THE role of a truck stop. It’s early Monday morning and what would ordinarily be a sleepy nook behind a retail park in southeastern France has become a temporar

‘BUSY’ DOESN’T BEGIN TO COVER IT. DURING ITS seven months with us it sometimes felt as if our M5 Touring’s wheels never stopped turning. It went to Spa and to the Le Mans 24 Hours, it appeared in a dr

I wonder which stage industry boffins think we’re in now. Two short years ago, the bosses of McLaren Applied (now an independent engineering firm, Motion Applied) reckoned electric car development wou