Ferrari World Abu Dhabi (UAE)
Whether we like it or not, we have now gone truly global. Companies and organisations with an aspiration to grow - and the economic climate in which ...
2014 Kia Sorento 2.4 GDi EX AWD (USA)
Wind your motoring memory back to 2000, and think specifically about the Korean brands that are now an established part of the motoring landscape. Hyu...
Salon Privé – September 2015
The marketing material tells you that Salon Privé is a motor show unlike any other. It's been held every year since 2006, and having finally experienc...
Midlands Italian Car (MITCAR) – August 2015
There's one big difference between MITCAR and almost every other car event that I attend during the course of a year. Whilst the vehicles that you see...
Queen Square Bristol Breakfast Club – November 2015
It seems almost churlish to say so, given the excellence of the event, but I tend to include the local- to-me monthly Queen Square Breakfast Club in t...
Dubai Motor Show – November 2015
Like many small boys of my generation, I suspect that my interest in cars started when I was given my first toy car, aged about 2, which I am informed...
La Vie en Bleu at Prescott Hill Climb – May 2015
It used to be the case that car events - of which there were not that many - were often little more than a gathering of a few like-minded enthusiasts ...
2013 Honda Fit 1.5 (USA)
Most of my test cars are rental vehicles, and almost all of them come from Hertz. Long gone are the days when they, or indeed any other of the multi-n...
Ace Cafe Italian Night – September 2015
Although I have a fair amount of control over my diary, and so I can try to ensure that I am in the right place at the right time for those activities...
Showrooms of the Champs-Élysées – September 2015
The business trip to some distant location. Maybe even a foreign country. Sounds great, doesn't it? The reality, as is well known by those of us for w...