2019 Mazda CX-5 Touring (USA)
Mazda’s entry in the hotly contested family-sized crossover class is called the CX-5. It was first launched in the autumn of 2011 and immediately won ...
Queen Square Breakfast Club – December 2023
Returning from Los Angeles a few days into December, the UK car scene has quietened down quite a lot, as the hour of daylight are at their least and m...
Deer Park Winery and Auto Museum – Escondido, CA (USA)
In all the years that I have been visiting Southern California, I thought I had managed to find and visit all the Auto Museums, at least those which a...
2020 Hyundai Elantra GT N Line (USA)
Wandering around the moderately well-stocked Hertz facility at the Phoenix Sky Harbor airport, looking for my next rental car, I spotted something I’d...
Los Angeles Auto Show – November 2023
Much has been written in the last couple of years about the demise of the traditional Motor Show. For as long as anyone could remember, manufacturers ...
Los Angeles Cars and Coffee – November 2023
Although this event has been running for just over 6 years now, I had somehow failed to know about it until discovering it as the result of a more car...
2021 Kia Sedona EX (USA)
Kia is one of only a handful of manufacturers who have persisted with what European refer to as an MPV, and the Americans call a MiniVan. With a conti...
American “Land Yachts” on Brand Boulevard, Glendale, CA – December 2023
Most of the reports that are published are the result of some form of planning: either a car I have arranged to test, or an event to attend. This one ...
NEC Classic – AC to Land Rover – November 2023
November means the NEC Classic Car Show, the UK’s largest indoor event, and one which has been running for almost 40 years. During that time there has...
NEC Classic – Lloyd to Wolseley – November 2023
The NEC Classic event is so large these days, that even having spent just one day wandering the halls, I came home with over 1200 photos on my memory ...