7 ford focus (mk1)

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

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

Ford is preparing to launch a crucial new Focus-sized crossover as the first step in a radical rethink of its European gameplan. Following the landmark unveiling of a new platform for affordable EVs i

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

We can all see that the first-generation Mazda MX-5 looks a lot like the original Type 26 Lotus Elan, but it was a whole pantheon of British roadsters that helped form this Japanese-made car in the mi

In 1973, the arrival of a new Toyota Crown raised eyebrows in our middle-England cul-de-sac, where most driveways were decorated with conservatively styled British products, plus the occasional Fiat o