2009 Volvo V70 D5 AWD Auto (CH)
Thirty years ago there were no people carriers and the only SUV really, was the Range-Rover. Mercedes had just introduced the rather expensive W123-ba...
Autosammlung Stein – Schramberg (D)
For the last 2 years, at the RetroClassics event in Stuttgart, I have picked up a brochure describing a little-known German auto museum, called the Au...
Oldtimermuseum – Meßkirch (D)
Looking through the leaflets that I had acquired, and then trying to find the museum locations on the map, I discovered that after my visit to the mus...
Bristol Classic Car Show – May 2009
For many years, the Bristol Classic Car show has represented the opener for the year, taking place in very early February. This year, the weather got ...
Auto Italia at Brooklands – May 2009
What could be better than a gloriously sunny day, the historic setting of Brooklands, an enormous range of Italian machinery and the pleasure of the c...
2008 Vauxhall Vectra 1.9 cdti 150 SRi 5 door (GB)
There's not much pleasure to be had when you are packed into what a pilot once memorably called "the Cinquecento of Airbuses", but I did at least...
Bristol Italian Auto Moto Festival (BIAMF) – April 2009
Once again, a joint initiative between the Bristol Italian Auto Club and Bristol City Council saw the closure of some of the streets in the old commer...
Mercedes Museum – Stuttgart (D)
Mercedes has, for many years, had its own museum at its Unterturkheim site, to the east of the city of Stuttgart, right next to the vfb Stuttgart stad...
2009 Toyota RAV4 2.0i (CH)
The first Toyota RAV4 appeared on the market in 1994, and was presented as a possible antidote to the collapsing hot hatch market, where huge in...
Goodwood Breakfast Club – April 2009
Encouraged by a very promising weather forecast, I made a last minute decision to leave the comfort of my bed early on Sunday morning, and head down t...