WHETHER IT BE a wild party, a holiday abroad or an existential crisis (perhaps all three), there are many ways to mark a birthday. The one Skoda has chosen, in honour of its 130th lap around the sun,

GROWING OLDER, I have found, is a deplorable process. Faculties diminish, one’s abilities reduce and, eventually, enthusiasm wanes. There is, in short, little to be said for it. However, last year I f

The last three mentions of ‘intake plenum’ I can find in Autocar’s archive related to the Ferrari 849 Testarossa, Gunther Werks’ Porsche 993 Speedster and, er, the world’s fastest tractor. Now to make

I “t’s what I call a ‘yes, but’ car,” says Danny McLean of his Renault Caravelle Convertible 1100. “Yes, it has brakes, but they have no servo. Yes, it has steering, but it’s not power-assisted. Peopl

More evidence that car people are the same the world over. In the way that some Chinese engineers recently thought a flat-eight engine was perfect for a motorbike, others have decided to make a niche,

What if Honda had stuck with the E? It was a delightful piece of design and was great to drive, but it needed a bigger battery and a lower price. We will never know for sure, because the E is dead and