“The Italian Job: New Year’s Eve” – Cheddar Gorge Drive – December 2017
When the car enthusiast is looking at upcoming events and planning the diary, it is almost inevitable that it is from the wide variety of static shows...
Bristol Classic Car Show – June 2016
The Bristol Classic Car Show is one of the longest established events of its kind in the UK. In 2016, it took place for the 37th time, having run ever...
2016 Volkswagen CC 2.0 TSi Trend (USA)
If you look at what the car manufacturers were selling us twenty or thirty years ago, most of them, even the big brands, had only a small number of di...
Showrooms of the Champs-Élysées – February 2018
It's become almost a tradition that whenever I visit Paris, I take a stroll down the Champs-Élysées, and spend some time taking in the various car sho...
Donington Historic Festival – May 2016
The first Donington Historic Festival took place in May 2011, and it has been held annually ever since. The event was conceived to capitalise on the s...
2016 Ford Escape 1.6T SE AWD (USA)
Although, much to the chagrin of some, we now live in a globally interconnected world which has somewhat lessened the differences that you find in eve...
Abarths at Coventry Transport Museum – July 2017
Those planning car events often face the dilemna of whether simply to return to the same venue time and again, or whether in the interests of keeping ...
Autumn Classic at Prescott – October 2017
Anyone who has ever been to the Prescott Hill Climb, on the north western slopes of the Cotswolds, just outside the village of Gotherington, in Glouce...
2015 Mitsubishi Mirage 1.2 DE (USA)
It has always been the case that it is easier to write about the extremes than the middle of the proverbial pack, and nowhere is that more true than w...
Bicester Heritage Sunday Scramble – October 2017
This was the third of three Sunday Scrambles to be held at the Bicester Heritage site in 2017, and having attended the first two, I needed no persuadi...