1969 volkswagen baja beetle

For the English leg of this four part roadtrip, we could have planned a picturesque route through the Peak District or across the North York Moors. We could have crossed both the Lake District and the

The classics you love, drive and restore

WHOEVER COINED the phrase ‘don’t mix business with pleasure’ certainly wasn’t offered the use of a VW California Ocean for the week. Handily, that’s not a mantra I live by, and I was quick to point ou

Nigel had always wanted a 1970s classic that was simple but special and found it in a Saab 96. It’s been free-wheeling fun ever since…

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