Month: April 2013

Ian Nicholls With the recent death of Lady Thatcher and this week’s local elections, it has been a time of strong political debate. Recently,  I watched a party political broadcast […]

Words: Simon Thompson Photographs: BTCC Media Office The second Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) meeting of the season saw the teams head to the East Midland’s Donington Park track […]

The arrival of the MG CS Concept is tangible evidence that SAIC Motor has serious global plans for the British marque. It’s a concept that hints at the next-generation model […]

MG unveiled the European version of the MG3 supermini. It’s said to be inspired by the MG Zero concept car, although it’s little more than a light refresh of the […]

Florida red eye Richard Truett I’m on the verge of being sacked at work. It’s just days from my 52nd birthday and I’m getting married in less than three months. There’s […]

Biggest Rover event since 2004 The Rover Sports Register Diamond Jubilee Rally, jointly organised with the Rover P6 Club, is intended to be the most comprehensive gathering of Rovers since […]

Mike Humble Ward Brothers of Lepton near Huddersfield at one point ran a medium sized coach business operating a mixed range of services including Continental holidays. To say their choice […]

John Slavin The Nissan LEAF receives its first facelift, and although it doesn’t look much different, it receives a raft of changes that makes it more usable, and affordable, with […]

Honest John The Jaguar F-Type has finally arrived, more than 50 years after Jaguar launched the E-type to an awestruck world. And Jaguar is back to building sports cars, to […]

MINI is extending its international production network by additional local production plants for select MINI models. Cars will be rolling off assembly lines beyond Europe for the first time later […]

Renowned consumer journalist, TV broadcaster and artist James Ruppert (Bangernomics, Autocar, The Independent, London Evening Standard) teams up with Jensen Centre of Excellence, Cropredy Bridge, to unleash the only automotive-focused, […]

You know that feeling when it’s blowing a gale outside:  the last thing you want to do is leave the house, but sometimes you just need to.  So you cut […]

The 25th Techno Classica in Essen, Germany, shows that the European classic car scene is in full swing now. It handsomely broke last year’s record for the number of visitors, […]

Words and photography: Mike Humble and John Lakey As everybody who resides in Blighty will know, we’ve had some truly shocking weather as of late. The laws of physics dictates that […]

Honest John With the F-Type, Jaguar intends to offer a full range of models in order to broaden the appeal of its sports cars. The most likely extension to the […]

Mike Humble Ever said those fatal words “yeah, I can do that, no problem” and wished you hadn’t? It’s something we all say, all get burnt with and never ever seem […]

Clive Goldthorp Total Track Limited, the company which administers and promotes the increasingly popular MINI Challenge, has just announced an innovative competition for all this year’s JCW Class drivers – […]

Updated, Keith Adams The annual Pride of Longbridge  event is now the UK’s pre-eminent classic car event for lovers of ‘The Firm’s’ vehicles. This year it takes place on 13 […]

This year the Techno Classica can celebrate the 25th anniversary as one of Europe’s leading classic car shows. Each and every year this show has been a feast for classic […]

Christopher A Sawyer Take two ex-Lotus Engineering alumni, mix in a name from the birth of the auto industry in Detroit, and what do you get? A Detroit Electric sports […]