2013 xf sportbrake 2.2

Excited and apprehensive, I’m driving my Renault 5 long-termer 190 miles from home to Watergate Bay, Cornwall, for the local car club’s annual sprint. For two days a year, they close the road between

The good thing about running two examples of the same model – 1964 Ford Galaxies in my case – is that you can contrast and compare by swapping parts around. Long before the recent round of work descri

In the mid-1980s, despite regularly making nuisances of ourselves at our local bike shop, my girlfriend Josie and I were determined to resist all attempts to turn us into racing cyclists. While happy

How quickly empires can fall and dynasties wither. Within living memory the Rootes Group, once one of the key players in the UK’s booming motor industry, was producing a range of sports saloons that w

I don’t know if it’s just me, but looking at the photograph of the selection of Formula 1 cars from across the years gathered on the track at Silverstone in August, as shown across pages eight and nin

SPENDING a lot of time in a car over a condensed period is a great way to unearth its strengths and weaknesses. So, a two-week, 1,200-mile break, loaded to the gills, with a roofbox on top plus four b