Only a few days prior to this event, I attended and reported on a “Wheels on Wednesday” evening, but that was an away fixture, held at Morgan Cars in Malvern Link. This one is very much the home fixture, taking place at Spetchley Park, which is where these evening gatherings started a few years ago,...
Once the car manufacturers find a new body style or genre of car that takes off in the market, they tend to take the concept and scale it up and down to fill out their range with cars of differing sizes and price tags. That is certainly what happened with what the Europeans call the MPV and the Amer...
Festival Italia quickly became one of the largest Italian car events in the UK’s packed calendar. Part of the reason for its success comes from the fact that it combines static displays of many hundred Italian cars of all ages and brands with a full day of track action, with not just rounds of both ...
As the number of Abarths in Britain’s road as continued to increase, so there are sizeable enough populations of enthusiastic owners more or less across the whole country who are only to keen to get out and to meet fellow brand devotees and enthusiasts, and so the number of regional Abarth groups ha...
As anyone who has been to one of the smaller islands in Southern Europe will know, the rental car experience there can be quite different that which applies from large airport locations in populous countries. As almost all the rental car business is for vacationers, rather than those on business, co...
The “Wheels on Wednesday” event started out, just as the name would suggest, as an evening meet for car enthusiasts, on a Wednesday evening, held at Spetchley Park, just outside Worcester. Word quickly spread and the event became very popular, with attendee numbers growing with event and a clamourin...
Situated a few miles north of the charming Cotswolds village of Bibury, the Classic Motor Hub is one of those places that you would probably never find by accident, but to which you definitely return on purpose. The prime objective of this venture is a combination of a sales facility for some very d...
In recent years, car designers have worked really hard to try to ensure that there is a strong brand identity with every model they produce, with this going well beyond details like badging or styling features such as BMW’s famous Hofmeister kink. The result is often a range of models which look rat...
If you ever thought that the majority of pre-war cars in the UK were confined to museums, or used only very occasionally on short journeys, then the VSCC Weekend held at Prescott at the start of August will help you to change your mind. It is almost certainly the case that this event does see the la...