‘driving may not be our whole life, but it makes our life whole!’

IN TODAY’S RISK-AVERSE SOCIETY, DRIVING at extreme speeds is increasingly seen as irresponsible and unacceptable. From the perspective of the responsible driver, it’s not just about risks and conseque

JUST HOW GOOD IS ABS? BASED ON THE FACT that doubling your road speed means you are quadrupling your braking distance, it’s worth becoming fully familiar with the advantages and the potential shortcom

I’m so disappointed in Luca de Meo. His decision to quit the top job at the Renault Group has left me feeling bereft, not least because over the years – at Toyota, Fiat-Alfa-Abarth, VW, Seat and final

‘IT WAS THE BEST OF TIMES, IT WAS THE WORST OF TIMES… we had everything before us, we had nothing before us…’ The opening line from Charles Dickens’ novel A Tale of Two Cities. The 2000s promised to b

I wonder if any readers recall, or attended, the British Leyland Special Tuning Day at Mallory Park in June 1972. The idea was to showcase the Special Tuning performance upgrades, as well as some more

If you want your motoring life affirmed, find a thriving low-volume car business and – if they have the time for you – see if you can hang out for a while with the people who run the place. I dropped