2018 Volkswagen Passat Estate 1.6 TDi Business (I)
Recent years have seen a dramatic decline in sales of what are sometimes called D-Segment cars, the large family saloon exemplified in the UK by the F...
Rétromobile – February 2023
Rétromobile in Paris claims the title of the biggest and best attended classic car show in Europe. Taking place around the start of February, it’s bei...
Abarths at Rally Replay – March 2023
When I saw details of an event that the Surrey Sussex Hampshire Abarth group were organising at a venue called Rally Replay, and the associated pictur...
2019 Vauxhall Corsa 1.4 Sport (GB)
The Corsa is an important car for its maker, Vauxhall/Opel, as it constitutes their European best-seller. Perennially popular across mainland Europe, ...
Murphy Auto Museum – Oxnard, CA (USA)
Oxnard is one of those towns in the Greater Los Angeles area that anyone driving north on the 101 freeway will have heard of, but probably never bothe...
Los Angeles Cars and Coffee – 26th March 2023
What is widely thought to have been the first “Cars and Coffee” event took place in Irvine in Southern California. That event, sadly, has long been cl...
2020 BMW 320d xDrive Touring M Sport (GB)
To help us when comparing different cars, the marketeers and analysts have come up with various labels. Often you will see reference to A-segment, B-s...
Abarths at The Trout Inn and Kingsley Cafe – March 2023
bIt is generally the case that any venue at which it is hard to get a booking is worth persevering with, as there is a good reason why it is popular. ...
Queen Square Breakfast Club – March 2023
The popular monthly Queen Square Breakfast Club meets, having long ago outgrown their eponymous name in the city centre, have now settled on a couple ...
2020 Abarth 595 Turismo (GB)
I bought my first Abarth literally the day that I returned the car I had rented from Hertz for a long weekend birthday treat. That first car, and the ...