2023 Ford Explorer XLT RWD (USA)
It’s more than thirty years since Ford launched the first Explorer model and in that time it has sold in large numbers in the US. Ar...
Petroyle Cars and Coffee – January 2025
Sometimes, indeed most of the time, I find events to go, but there are times when it seems like the events find me. This is one of those latter. I con...
Podium Place – 1st March 2025
Although you would be unlikely to find Podium Place by accident, as it is located on a rather unpromising looking minor road that goes through an indu...
2020 Honda Accord 1.5T Sport (USA)
During the 1970s, an onslaught of new models from all the Japanese brands that we now know well served notice that the established players in the worl...
B.A.D Abarth South Coast Fourth Birthday at Rivo’s Hub – February 2025
Back in 2021, not long after the creation of the Regional Abarth Group known as B.A.D. Abarth South Coast (B.A.D. standing for Bournemouth and Dorset)...
444 The Retreat Cars and Coffee – February 2025
Despite my best efforts to try to visit as wide a variety of events and locations as I can, there are limits, so some venues that I come across by one...
2020 Kia Soul S (USA)
Needing a car to try to change Kia’s image from a producer of ever more competent but still relatively unexciting saloons, hatches and crossovers, thi...
Shelsley Walsh Breakfast Club – February 2025
As in previous years, the full program of events for the season taking place at the iconic Shelsley Walsh extend well beyond the competitive hill-clim...
Queen Square Breakfast Club – February 2025
February marks the fourth and final Queen Square event of the season held at the Easter Compton complex. This site has the twin advantage of all parki...
2023 Hyundai Sonata 2.5 SEL (USA)
The Hyundai Sonata is not a car that is well known to Europeans. Those with good memories may recall that the Ko...