Month: February 2016

The news that the nation is to vote on 23 June as to whether to remain a member of the European Union could be another turning point in the history of the British motor industry – one that could result in its final extinction after a strong revival from the depths of the early 1980s. […]

Clive Goldthorp MG Motor UK has not, as yet, issued any official photographs of the UK-specification MG GS – this is a Chinese market model MG Motor UK has recently […]

The weekend of 5-6 March at Birmingham’s NEC is the 2016 Practical Classics Restoration Show, a jam packed cacophony of old gold with every type of make in every type of condition. The ethos of the event is ‘work in progress’, and although its not as big as the aforementioned classic motor show, it’s getting bigger and better every year. […]

Minimize that spread sheet and flick the kettle on for a coffee-break smiler. This time Mike Humble ponders for a moment on that mystical motoring phenomenon… cars that fix themselves. […]

Last week, my Citroen C6 embarrassed itself a little bit, by throwing up a bunch of errors and then losing power. These things happen – it’s a 10-year old French car, and one that actually so far hasn’t cost me a penny to run in the nine months I’ve owned it. Still, never one to look too closely at my failures, I decided to ask around the CCW office and see if anyone had anything I could borrow until I could get the C6 up and running again (it is now, by the way). […]

Keith Adams It cannot have escaped any of this wonderful site’s readership that the bulk and heft of modern cars has been getting out of hand since the late 1990s. Safety […]

Vivian Griffiths What the heck are we going to do in flooded areas like we have here in Cumbria without a regular supply of new Land Rover Defenders, now that […]