Icon is a very over-used word, but one car that surely merits its use is the Jaguar E-Type Was there ever a more evocatively beautiful, sexily phallic piece of seduction on four wheels than that? All of which poses a problem for its successor, long yearned for and now finally arriving four decades later. The Jaguar F-Type is saddled with …
By most standards the GS450h is a very luxurious car. This is the fourth generation of Lexus’s luxury sports saloon, and it pioneers the company’s design style and ‘spindle front’ look. The test car, stunning in Arctic White, has a chiselled muscularity that makes it a very impressive beast…
Winding tightly around the precipitous mountainside, it strings together a necklace of fast curves and tight bends. This is where Mercedes chose to showcase its new E-Class, and in particular the upper-crust, high performance range-topping E63 AMG…
The little town of Kall in northern Sweden bills itself as being ‘in the middle of nowhere’. This white winter wonderland of frosted trees and frozen lakes is indeed a long way from anywhere. The trip to reach it took one flight to Stockholm, another 400 miles further north to Ostersund-Are, Scandinavia’s biggest ski resort, then a two hour car trek through a deep-freeze landscape into the wilderness bordering Lapland…
A pink dusk is settling over an arid African landscape at the end of a kaleidoscope of a day. In the space of a few hours we have driven across sand dunes, negotiated a lengthy section of fast-flowing river, picked a tortuous path through a rocky gorge, dodged incoming waves on an Atlantic beach…
Le Mans. Two words that spell the most famous motor race on earth. Every year more than a quarter of a million people flock to the town in north western France that is home to an iconic 24-hour motorsport event. Around 100,000 of them are British fans who cram the local hotels and campsites to be there for an around-the-clock adrenaline rush that is also part festival, non-stop party and…