Long drives in lambdas

I WAS MOST interested to read Stephen Bayley’s assessment of the smart [above]in Octane 271. I have a very personal interest because I was directly involved in the beginning of the project at Swatch.

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

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.

Your feature on towing a car behind a motorhome (issue 296) brought back memories of buying our first ’van conversion, a Vantage Neo; we also bought a convertible Smart car and a trailer. We loved the

THE LAST LIGHTWEIGHT + BAYLEY AT HAMPTON COURT