‘Rolling, rolling, rolling, keep those wagons rolling…’ goes the old cowboy film song, and, blimey! don’t car manufacturers keep doing just that? New cars, new cars, it seems the type that what we crave these days is the SUV, even if we don’t even know or care what SUV is the acronym for. Anyway, yes, it’s the Sports Utility Vehicle that gets us all excited…READ MORE
The new Toyota Hilux Invincible arrived on loan at the same time as Bruce Springsteen took over my life. This seemed a fitting coincidence. I was reading Springsteen’s book every spare minute of the day – READ MORE
The Audi A4 allroad 3.0 TDI which came to us last week reminded me of those rummage baskets at village fetes where you pay a fixed price for a ticket to root around and then you pull out a single Harrods truffle, which might be a box of Lego or a Cartier necklace. Another ticket, another prize….READ MORE
It took about 3.8 seconds. ‘Oh yes! This car I really like!’ Yes, as quickly as that…The Subaru Levorg GT had somehow escaped my notice, but the Japanese manufacturer of exclusively four-wheel-drive cars (and with fifteen million ‘boxer’ horizontally-opposed-cylinder engines in them in fifty years, they say), recently decided to update their fleet and uprate their media coverage, we got to drive them all – Read More
In a year of global convulsions and upheavals anything may be possible; but never in two lifetimes would I have reckoned on getting two consecutive test cars from Renault that I and my family truly enjoyed and admired. Neil Lyndon gets on a lot better, with the All-New Renault Megane…READ MORE
Of course, Citroen could not name their new car two years ago the Citroen Airbump, could they? Those lumpy plastic side protectors are what we’re talking about…READ MORE