Letter from america

As a motorist who has always enjoyed swift, measured and safe driving, a combination of factors (average speed cameras, reduced A-road speed limits, drivers going considerably slower ‘just in case’, i

I look at pictures from my school days and the memories of that period instantly come flooding back. Thoughts of secondary school are quite mixed, with just as many negative ones as positive. But my p

The time is 4.40pm on a pleasant weekday afternoon. You’ve had a busy day of it, but your big multi-car comparison test has gone well. All of the cars showed up on time and as planned. They are exactl

Car launches are strange but wonderful things. A tense battle of wits between PRs and journalists played out in stunning locations. Every detail is meticulously planned, from the road route to the sea

There are new laws that have come into effect in the UK about controlling the access to certain sorts of material on the internet, specifically pornography. But it also applies to any material unsuita

Autocar’s history of empirical road testing is the longest in the world. For more than a century, we have been verifying, scrutinising, describing and illustrating new cars in unparalleled detail. Dri