Manhattan Beach Cars and Coffee – March 2025
There are many factors which govern the precise dates of my planned trips to the US, mostly around flight prices (which can vary quite dramatically fr...
Practical Classics Restoration Show at the NEC – Part II – March 2025
Welcome to Part II of the report from the 2025 Practical Classisc Restoration Show at the NEC, which covers cars alphabetically from Lancia to Wolsele...
Practical Classics Restoration Show at the NEC – Part I – March 2025
Whilst in car circles the NEC is best known for the massive Classic Car event that takes place in mid November and which occupies so many halls it is ...
2023 Kia Rio Sedan S (USA)
Wind the clock back, say 5 years, and there was lots of choice in what is sometimes known as the sub-compact class for US buyers. Nissan had c...
Queen Square Breakfast Club – March 2025
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 ver...
Vintage Stony – March 2025
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. Bu...
2023 Ford Explorer XLT RWD (USA)
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. Ar...
Petroyle Cars and Coffee – January 2025
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 con...
Podium Place – 1st March 2025
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 indu...
2020 Honda Accord 1.5T Sport (USA)
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 worl...