Since any day now we’ll be celebrating 101 years since Bentley Motors was founded by W. O. Bentley in Cricklewood, North London, we had a close look at William Medcalf [ … ]
Category: cars
VW Polo – One Lady Owner for 36 years
As mythological constructs go, the fabled ‘one lady owner’ second hand car has long been regarded with the same wariness as the existence of unicorns or an Alfasud composed of [ … ]
Rarely seen at your local garage
Snapped by an eagle-eyed member of the team… A Ferrari 275 GTB… … and very nice too.
America: Oddly similar, similarly odd
For the car geek, a trip overseas is always a treat and particularly, for those of us who live outside the USA at least, one which involves crossing the Atlantic. [ … ]
“Car of the Year 2019” – Jaguar I-Pace
At the Geneva Motor Show, every car maker from the humblest to the most luxurious, launched their latest hybrids and electric cars, many vowing to stop making combustion engined cars [ … ]
Thin Wall Special Ferrari
A special car, by name and by provenance, the Thin Wall Special, a predecessor of the Vanwall cars, kindly brought to the Total Elf HTX Mike Hawthorn Grand Prix of [ … ]
DIY Car – a bitsa article
The UK has a long and proud history of DIY projects, from the TV instructionals by Barry Bucknell in the early 60s …. Yes, I do remember them ….. to [ … ]
Podcast – The 2018 Sensible Car Shootout
Following on from the fantasy world of Goodwood Revival, Graham brings us back down to earth exploring the £10-20,000 new car market. At the SMMT’s test day, he drives the [ … ]
Hot Hatches – A Few Blasts From The Past
The recent “Hot Hatches – Where Are They Now?” infographic, and Mike Gates’s Fiesta ST piece, brought a big grin to my face as I remembered driving so many of [ … ]
Ford’s Hotter Hatch
High powered two-seater sports cars are all well and good, but for us mere mortals shelling out on a toy can be a no go. Cue the hyper-hatch, delivering performance [ … ]
