It was back in 1966 that Hertz first produced something really special, the Ford Mustang GT350H. Based on the Shelby-tuned Mustang GT350, Hertz signed a deal for 1000 cars for their fleet, with a plan that after their rental-car lives were finished, they would be returned to Ford, refurbished, and s...
There are a lot of Italian car events in the UK. So is there room for yet another one? The team at Auto Italia rather hope that there is. Mindful of the days when they used to organise an event at Stanford Hall, and if you go back a few years further, also at the Gaydon Museum, they are well aware t...
Just a week or so after visiting Caffeine & Machine, here I am again. And why not? In the less than five years since the location opened, it has become a sort of automotive mecca, attracting all manner of enthusiasts from far and wide who come here to show off their car, look at the cars and bik...
A few years into the twentyfirst century, the automotive sector started to move away from truck-like SUVs into what became known as the crossover, which appeared to combine the best of both worlds, with a more car-like driving experience but all the advantages of space and raised driving position of...
For some time now, there has been a monthly gathering of Jaguar and Daimler owners at the British Motor Museum at Gaydon, on the first Saturday of the month. Initially conceived as a small-scale meet where owners could park up their cars and head indoors for a coffee and a chat, it has grown in popu...
Any event organiser in the UK will tell you that the British weather does from time to time do its absolute worst and the outcome is a last-minute cancellation. Over the course of a single season there are typically only two or three events that are so blighted, but I really do feel for Robin Webb w...
Although there have been a number of iterations of America “down-sizing” their cars in the last 40 or so years, the reality is that in a country where distances between places are often vast, where space is not an issue in urban areas which were designed around the car as opposed trying to retro-fit...
Just one week after a great day of Italian Cars and Bikes at the RAF Cosford museum, the Italian Auto Moto Club (IAMC) had another event on the calendar. This one was in Chesham, the furthest east the IAMC has ever ventured. Inspiration for the event came from local resident Mark Rosales, who came t...
When you’ve been at an event in Chesham, in Buckinghamshire, and need to go home, in Bristol, a route that takes in Caffeine & Machine really does not seem particularly logical. But when your best mate is celebrating his birthday there, it would have been churlish to stick to logic, of course I ...