Simon taylor

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

Autocar’s history of empirical road testing is the longest in the world. For more than a century, we have been verifying, scrutinising, describing and illustrating new cars in unparalleled detail. Dri

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

I look at pictures from my school days and the memories of that period instantly come flooding back. Thoughts of secondary school are quite mixed, with just as many negative ones as positive. But my p

I HAVE DONE the Hope Classic Rally at least three times, but never previously in my own car. Embarrassed about the condition and lowly status of my classics, I once borrowed a lovely sidescreen TR fro

GBRf breaks record for run-round GB Railfreight was celebrating winning another entry into the Guinness Book of Records after successfully completing a locomotive run-round in just 67 minutes. The mom