2013 Volkswagen Passat Estate 1.6 TDi 105 S (GB)
Over the past thirty years, the size of the overall market for new cars in Europe has grown very significantly, and yet as changing tastes of the cons...
Ace Cafe Italian Night – April 2014
With the arrival of British Summer Time, and indeed some nice spring weather, suddenly there is daylight in the evenings til well past 8pm, which mean...
2013 Nissan Sentra 1.8 SV (USA)
It is all too easy for the auto enthusiast to forget that the primary goal of any car manufacturer is not actually to make cars that appeal to us. Tha...
Cars and Coffee – Irvine, CA. 22nd March 2014
It's not just the UK where the breakfast meeting for owners and enthusiasts of a diverse array of cars has become popular. The format certainly has it...
2012 Honda Civic LX Sedan (USA)
When a new model is launched, as a direct replacement for an existing car, the expectation is that it is "better". And in almost all cases, it is. Som...
2013 Kia Soul 2.0i+ (USA)
Probe insistently enough, and I would be pretty confident that you would get any car enthusiast to admit to at least one automotive "guilty pleasure"....
Geneva Motor Show – March 2014
Switzerland has no car manufacturing capability of its own, and there are no Swiss owned brands these days, following the demise of Monteverdi, many ...
Queen Square Bristol Breakfast Club – March 2014
The monthly impromptu gatherings of classic and interesting cars in Bristol's Queens Square have become very popular, and it is not uncommon for all t...
2013 Mercedes E350 Convertible with Premium 1 (USA)
There have been convertible versions of Mercedes saloons for almost as long as there have been Mercedes saloons. And that means a long time, so even a...
2013 Mercedes SLK250 with Premium (USA)
Some years ago, one of my friends sold his much loved MGF and went back onto our company car scheme, taking delivery of a Mercedes SLK. A second gener...