This weekend I got my hands on the new Mini Countryman. There's been much head-scratching about this car. Firstly, it's not very Mini. Secondly, rather than just building a more compact Golf, the Countryman is masquerading as a kind of Los Angeles soft-roader.
If you've got a Saturday afternoon on your hands – and you like [...]
The entire complexion of the F1 business is set to change significantly from 2013.
Not only will there be a new Concorde agreement governing the commercial rights income distribution from such lucrative areas as television coverage contracts, trackside advertising and corporate hospitality, but also bold new technical rules which will change the Grand Prix landscape for [...]
It never ceases to amaze me how many opportunities us car nuts have to get a fix in the UK. I'm not just talking about the headline grabbing events like Goodwood, Pistonheads Sunday Services or big motorsport meetings either.
Every weekend up and down the country there's always car-related stuff to see or do: single make [...]
The entire complexion of the F1 business is set to change significantly from 2013.
Not only will there be a new Concorde agreement governing the commercial rights income distribution from such lucrative areas as television coverage contracts, trackside advertising and corporate hospitality, but also bold new technical rules which will change the Grand Prix landscape for [...]
It was interesting to read Editor Chas Hallett’s blog that a used Ferrari is still a good Ferrari, but let's be honest – is a Ferrari ever truly ‘used’ in the accepted sense of the word?
I would argue that there are some cars which never truly become used. I believe that they miss all the [...]
Okay, this one’s a bit more complex because it involves the twists and undulations of Donington, plus a more disparate range of cars, but the question itself is exactly the same: what’s fastest?
I’m talking about the short circuit at Donington – in other words, not the one that includes the Melbourne loop. And despite what [...]
Last week I spent two days in Berlin with Mazda getting an intensely detailed low down on the mechanical building blocks that will underpin the vast majority of its future models. We even managed to spend two hours sampling Mazda’s new engines and transmissions on the German roads, which were bolted into an early version [...]
Even faster, even easier to drive, even more dramatic and, to my eyes, even better looking. Those were my first thoughts after driving the new 458 Italia that turned up here on test – straight after a weekend blasting around in ‘our’ used F430.
Does that make the F430 an inferior car to the 458? Yes, [...]
McLaren F1 team principal Martin Whitmarsh is usually a measured kind of guy when it comes to dishing out criticism to rivals, but he certainly did not mince his words on Sunday on the subject of Sebastian Vettel after the young Red Bull driver slammed into Jenson Button’s car, probably not only ruining his own [...]
Very impressed by the depth of knowledge displayed by most of you on this one. Quite a few of you got the Noble, and a surprising number of you got the middle order pretty spot on as well.
The key thing was to realise that top speed at the standing kilometre is what counts, which is [...]
Subscribe via RSS Feed stay updated with articles
Daily Funny