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 ...
Bristol Italian Auto Moto Festival (BIAMF) – April 2017
You might think that organising a car event is easy: pick a date, find a location, publicise it and invite owners with cars that encompass your chosen...
2014 Honda Civic LX Sedan (USA)
The perfect car has yet to be invented. And to be honest, it probably never will be, as what matters to you and me is not going to be exactly the same...
Sunday Scramble at Bicester Heritage – January 2017
For the anti-car lobby, it is an inconvenient truth that classic cars are big business. Although it is difficult to estimate just how big, there are p...