Harry metcalfe

1. This painting captures my husband Martin and me, enjoying a Mercedes-Benz 300SL rally. Our car is perfect for any tour or rally; it can go anywhere and do anything. 2. A favourite moment is welcomi

I WAS PERHAPS about nine or ten years old and we had spent the day at Frensham Pond in Surrey with our neighbours, my father’s Vauxhall 14 following our neighbour’s Standard Vanguard (in two-tone blue

MY LAST ECOTY WAS JUST under ten years ago. How different it all is today. Out of the dozen cars this year, only one has a manual gearbox and two have hybrid powertrains. Plenty of food for thought he

OF ALL THE cars this fabled designer is responsible for, his favourite may or may not surprise you. It’s the archly utilitarian Fiat Panda. But we’ll get to that. ‘It is somehow easy,’ he says, ‘to cr

The Nineties produced some of the most capable, varied and driver-focused all-wheel drive cars ever, but can the old guard here put up a fight against the newer kids on the block?

Speed, we often point out, is a commodity less freely available to drivers on British roads than it used to be. On safety grounds that’s probably okay, given the growing population of cars and the fai