The devil all the time

WHAT YOU SHOULD be reading is how Mark Dixon enjoyed driving his recently purchased Rover in France after graciously accepting a press invitation to the Champagne region – which is full of culture, ar

£82,845 OTR/£82,845 as tested/£1,049 pcm WHY IT’S HERE: It’ll conquer the wilderness, but is this £83k Toyota everyday overkill? DRIVER: andy fr anklin WE’VE ALL BEEN THERE, HAVEN’T we? You get home a

BRUTAL, ISN’T IT? Especially in that vivid shade of green. But the Lola T70, even in its ultimate MkIIIB form you see here, was never quite what it seemed. Intimidating to the eye – and the ear, thank

The steep and winding drive up to the house is a series of hairpins but we’ve found that, if you judge the approach right, the Lancia Lambda will get round each of them in one. That’s no coincidence.

Jaguars have come into and gone from the Buckley fleet over the past 15 or 20 years, but I have not always reported on them, perhaps because they never felt as if they were going to be firm fixtures.

Perhaps the defining automotive rivalry of the 21st century came in 2013 with the arrival of a ‘Holy Trinity’ of hybrid hypercars – the Ferrari LaFerrari, McLaren P1 and Porsche 918 Spyder – when thre