March is the month when the popular monthly Queen Square Breakfast Club meets revert from their winter location of Easter Compton Farm Shop to the very attractive Eastwood Park, a large country house situated just off junction 14 of the M5, a few miles north of Bristol. The thinking is that spring w...
Stony Stratford is a small country town located a few miles to the north west of Milton Keynes that most will not have heard of, let alone visited. But many car enthusiasts will know of it, as for many years now, the town celebrates New Years Day with a sizeable car event which literally takes over ...
It’s more than thirty years since Ford launched the first Explorer model and in that time it has sold in large numbers in the US. Arguably this is the car, more than any other, which set off the current craze for what initially were known as Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs,) and now, ...
Sometimes, indeed most of the time, I find events to go, but there are times when it seems like the events find me. This is one of those latter. I confess I’d not heard of this event or indeed the company who organises it, but when it popped up on my Facebook feed. I clicked to see exactly where it ...
Although you would be unlikely to find Podium Place by accident, as it is located on a rather unpromising looking minor road that goes through an industrial estate to the east of the A34 and Newbury town centre, this venue is now well known by locals, car and bike enthusiasts alike. It is a popular ...
During the 1970s, an onslaught of new models from all the Japanese brands that we now know well served notice that the established players in the world’s mature automotive markets were about to get far more competitive. It is fair to say that for quite a while there was pretty much a denial from tho...
Back in 2021, not long after the creation of the Regional Abarth Group known as B.A.D. Abarth South Coast (B.A.D. standing for Bournemouth and Dorset), I started to see posts talking about a venue called Rivo’s Hub, and seeing pictures of Abarth meets there. It was obvious not just that there was a ...
Despite my best efforts to try to visit as wide a variety of events and locations as I can, there are limits, so some venues that I come across by one source or other remain for some time on the “must try to visit” list. The one being covered here comes in that category. I had seen that somewhere ca...
Needing a car to try to change Kia’s image from a producer of ever more competent but still relatively unexciting saloons, hatches and crossovers, this Korean automotive giant showed us a concept at the 2006 North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Well received, Kia then announced plans t...