Under the hood

Received wisdom tells us that French executive cars don’t sell. Yet for 57 years Citroën pulled off a remarkable trick, in which it presented deliberately odd cars to an unsuspecting market – weird ca

Back to basics in the workshop

The Ferrari F50 is 30. Yet even today it is apparently impossible to judge it other than in the context of the F40. For this story we started planning with only the F50 in mind and then garnished it w

NEW safety tech isn’t just a challenge that car makers must get right. Official test body Euro NCAP itself must find ways of accurately rating the performance of vehicle systems designed to meet the i

Motoring journalist, or quality-assurance final boss?

The year is 1968. And if you’re a racing driver in the British Saloon Car Championship and your name’s not Frank Gardner, bad luck. You just lost. Because to be fast that year, only one thing would do