Cars

Where I live, Range Rovers fall into two distinct categories, the school run tank or the mud splattered, somewhat-more-luxurious-than-the-usual-workhorse utility vehicle driven by farmers dressed head to foot i...

Performance Direct were proud sponsors of Mini in the Park 2012 at Santa Pod Raceway. Held this year on Sunday 12 August, it was an event not to be missed. With the weather unusually sunny for a  British summ...

Performance Direct Non Standard Awards winner Paul Archer, from team It's on the Meter who recently broke the World Record for the longest ever taxi journey, was seen again on TV in the closing ceremony of the ...

Despite tightening the safety rules again this year, Pikes Peak once more saw a couple of heart-stopping car crashes.  Jeremy Foley's crash at Devil's Playground was nothing short of unbelievable. Often, when...

As I write this we are currently bathing in the sublime glow of a very successful London 2012 Olympic Games with world records being broken by our athletes and a medal tally that will go down in British sportin...

While the Porsche 918 Spyder super sports coupe is being tested and developed, the good people down at Porsche have decided to give it a nice vintage set of clothes to wear.  All too often you see development ...

Today a press release from Mercedes lists the latest upgrades to the new generation G-Class.  To add to it's luxury, the G-Class is receiving drivetrain enhancements and what Mercedes refer to as 'subtle visua...

In 2009 for the 50th anniversary of the Mini, well experienced traveller Duncan Mortimer set off on his third trip around the world in his 1978 Mini Clubman 1275 GT. Duncan made his first trip around the world...

With the world heading further into economic disaster and with seemingly no light at the end of the tunnel with - if BBC documentaries are to be believed - the Chinese economic bubble likely to burst at some po...

How many of us have sat watching the F1 racing or the BTCC while screaming at our favourite drivers to drive as fast as we would if we were behind the wheel of the car?  I'm hoping that it isn't just me.  We ...

Can we drive across the USA in a classic American car, for just as much as a break in Centre Parks? This is the question Matt Jones asked his two friends back in 2009 when planning their summer holiday. So the...

Allard have just released some exciting news.  They are due to re-release the Allard J2, Allard J2X and Allard J2X Le Mans Competition cars into the UK.  The classic cars will be hand built and will include t...

‘Hard Hearted Hannah (a 20 year old London Black Cab)’ and her ambitious if not crazy team of explorers, have finally returned home from their Guinness World record attempt to undergo the longest ever taxi ...

Despite the weather, a late change of venue and some early concerns about the track, round two of the Drift Allstars European Series (aka The Big Smoke) at Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium fell into place on the da...

Ken Block, born in 1967, a professional rally driver for the Monster World Rally Team, is now also a shoe salesman.  He's not the sort of shoe salesman you may find in your local high street shop though as Ken...

Every July, Lord March opens the  grounds to his stately home and tens of thousands of petrolheads and speed freaks make their way to Goodwood in West Sussex for The Festival of Speed - "the largest motoring g...

With the Formula 1 season hotting up and the British Grand Prix this coming weekend what better time to release news of a hypothetical London Grand Prix.  Yes, you heard me correctly, a London Grand Prix in wh...

A few years back an American friend staying with me got overly excited when she heard the electric whirr of a milk float pull up outside with the added excitement of a few clinking bottles. I had to physically ...

Do you remember playing with Hot Wheels cars when you were a child?  Carefully spending time setting up a lengthy track around your parents house with a loop-the-loop for the cars and then firing them off and ...

The VW 1.0 litre Up! is an award winning small car that What Car? described as the “..best city car on the market..” and made it their Car of the Year 2012. But when the Up! was launched at the Frankfurt A...

What do 50 Cent, Eddie Guerrero, Fergie and Will.I.Am from the Black Eyed Peas, Kelly Rowland, Tim Westwood, Akon, Alex Song and Lassana Diarra all have in common?  They have all been photographed at the Londo...

You may have heard the tale of Roy Locock, the man that got into the driving seat of his 1977 MG Midget, put it into gear, and just drove and didn’t stop driving until he had gone all around the world, just t...

This summer, BMW will introduce the i Pedelec in keeping with that increasingly annoying trend for putting a random ‘i’ in front of everything, that Apple seem to have inadvertently sanctioned.  The i Pede...

One sunny day in Southend-on-Sea, I spotted a half car, half motorbike rolling past me stuck in coastal traffic. I immediately recognised the unmistakable sight and sound of the VW Beetle flat-4 engine sitting ...