Gaydon Spring Classic – May 2017
By the time you get to May, there are large numbers of car events on every weekend across the UK, so you problem is not whether there is something to ...
Bedfordshire Italian Car Day – Sharnbrook Hotel – July 2016
In my childhood, sources of information about cars came from motoring magazines or books. From an early age, I started to amass an ever-growing collec...
2013 Ford Explorer XLT AWD (USA)
Since its inception in 1990, Ford have sold over 7 million examples of the Explorer, making it the best-selling SUV of all. It's been not without its ...
Classics on the Common – Harpenden – July 2016
Harpenden is one of those pleasant sort of towns that England does rather well. Freed of most of the traffic that would have had to crawl right throug...
Ace Cafe Italian Night – May 2017
Turnout at a lot of car events, most especially those where there is no need to pay for a ticket in advance, is very dependent on the weather. And tha...
2015 Hyundai Tucson 2.4 SE FWD (USA)
When Korean automotive giant Hyundai produced their Tucson model, in 2004, they were relatively late to what all bar the Americans think of as a mid-s...
Geneva Show – March 2017
I made my first visit to the Geneva Show back in 2000. Finding myself working in Switzerland, it was an easy train ride across the country from Zurich...
Abarths at Duxford Imperial War Museum – September 2016
When I bought my Abarth in May 2010, the Abarthisti Owners Club had been up and running for over a year and there had already been a few organised mee...
2015 Infiniti QX80 AWD (USA)
With sales of SUVs starting to take off in the 1990s, it was an inevitability that manufacturers would look to extend the formula in every direction t...
Haynes Museum Breakfast Club – December 2016
With such a vast number of car-related events taking place almost every weekend of the year, it's impossible to attend everything that you would like ...