When the Mercedes-Benz World facility opened in October 2006, it seemed to offer a unique combination of attractions that it looked likely would soon be copied by other manufacturers, but slightly surprisingly, that has not happened. There are three core elements here: an extensive showroom for the ...
As a lover of Italian cars, over and above all others, it should be no surprise that the Brooklands Auto Italia event, by some measure the largest gathering of Italian cars in the UK, is one of my absolute favourites in a packed calendar. I’ve been going to it without fail every year since 2008 but...
Although it is no longer Audi’s best-selling model globally, that honour going to the related Q5, the Audi A4 is still a very important member of the Audi family, selling around 350,000 examples in 2018 alone. We are currently on what is widely regarded as the ninth generation of a model which start...
After several years of very successful and hugely popular Breakfast meets, held on either a Saturday or Sunday, depending on venue availability, the Bristol-based Queen Square (QS) Car Club decided to experiment by adding a mid-week evening event to the calendar, as it was noted that the l...
Anyone who has been to one of the Caffeine & Machine locations at the weekend will know that the venue does not really have to do anything much to ensure that the site is likely to be pretty full, more or less year round and regardless of the weather. But the venue is actually open 7 days a week...
Car manufacturers seem to have settled on a fairly consistent pattern with the average production life of most cars being around six or seven years, and what they sometimes refer to as a mid-cycle update, or a refresh coming about half-way through that. These days, the styling changes that are part ...
Inspiration for this event came from a combination of a successful meeting of the Ferrari Owners Club, with a sizeable display of cars in the station car park, and an invitation from the Severn Valley Railway to the IAMC (Italian Auto Moto Club) to host an event for all Italian cars there. A date wa...
The UK weather is notoriously unpredictable. We all know that. When planning Car events, the only possible course of action is to assume that it will not be so bad as to imperil the event and accept the fact that just occasionally, it will do just that. Usually only once or twice a season is it so b...
In a history of car production that dates all the way back to 1899, Italian giant Fiat has produced cars of all shapes, sizes and price tags, from the very small 500 Topolino of the 1930s to elegant luxury machines such as the 525 series and 2800 cars of the inter-war period and the supremely elegan...