Don’t buy a new car…drive an old saab

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

As a motorist who has always enjoyed swift, measured and safe driving, a combination of factors (average speed cameras, reduced A-road speed limits, drivers going considerably slower ‘just in case’, i

Classic emails, letters, tweets, posts & threads

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

At the risk of mildly spoiling the Our Cars section of next week’s mag, I’ve fitted a new set of wheels and tyres to my Audi A2, smaller ones than before, and improved its fuel consumption notably. “I

My Saab was first registered in December 1991, and I bought it in February 1992 with just 800 miles on the clock. It is one of five Saabs I have owned over the years. The first was a 1967 Saab 96 V4,