It is not uncommon for car manufacturers to use a different model name in different markets. Sometimes this is forced upon them by anything from trademark restrictions, to ease of pronunciation in the local language or occasionally for more abstruse reasons such as superstition and associations good...
Even when there is a themed event taking place, you never quite know what you are going to see when you visit one of the Caffeine & Machine locations. All three are popular meeting places for groups of friends and car enthusiasts, but they are also somewhere that individuals choose to drop in wi...
With Italian car events proving very popular, and also the fact that more than a few of them are just the sort of stock that the Classic Motor Hub hold, it is no surprise that this Cotswolds venue has, among its annual program of events, and event to celebrate the cars of Italy. Despite the fact tha...
On the very last day of my September 2023 trip, I spotted a luminescent green MINI Cooper S Convertible, and without thinking the practicalities of the need to get my suitcase in it, just grabbed the keys to test it out for a few hours. That car was brand new and was the first time I had seen MINI m...
This is another of the new locations for the established and hugely popular “Wheels on Wednesday” events. Churchfields Farm is to the north of Worcester, a couple of miles off a main road and with the promise of plenty of space, a mix of hard standing and a large grass field. The first event was hel...
I’ve been aware of the Baston Car and Bike Show for quite a while, but have never managed to go and see it for myself as the date has always clashed with something else, generally rather more local. But in 2025, there was a nice spare weekend in my diary just whilst this long-running event would tak...
Those familiar with the Volkswagen range will agree that it is pretty comprehensive, even if the Up! city car has recently been discontinued and the executive Phaeton reached the end of the road a few years prior to that. Truly, it feels like there is a “people’s car” for everyone. A large...
I have already observed that there seems to have been a large increase in the number of mid-week evening cars to tempt the car enthusiast in 2025 and been to a few of them to suss them out. This is one that definitely found me, and actually on the day it was taking place. When I clicked on the post ...
There really does seem to be a vast increase in the number of mid-week evening car events in 2025. I’ve found some of them, but a lot of them have found me, by appearing in a social media feed for whatever reason the algorithms have decided. This is one such which appeared and when I looked at the d...