When first conceived, a few years ago, the Wheels on Wednesday events were all held at Spetchley Park, on the outskirts of Worcester. As word spread and the events became more popular, so it was not long before what started out as a regular monthly summer-time gathering for car and bike enthusiasts ...
For more than a decade I owned a series of S model Audi cars, and I loved each of them, with their mix of model generations and engine configurations from B5 generation twin turbo S4 through naturally aspirated 4.2 litre V8 to the thunderous V10 of the S6 and a supercharged 3.0 V6 in a B8 generation...
I last went to the National Tramway Museum at Crich, in Derbyshire, when was about five or six years old, and honestly, I don’t really remember anything much about it. Not surprisingly, really, as that is rather a long time ago, and it is fair to assume that it will have changed quite a lot in the i...
Just one month after visiting The Motorist, a renowned location for car and bike enthusiasts situated just off the A63, A1M and M62 in Sherburn in Elmet to the east of Leeds, here I am back again. The April visit was because we had chosen this venue to host Northern Abarth Day, and the May return wa...
When Nissan decided to replace their medium-sized hatch, known in European markets as the Almera, with something a bit different, the car we know now as the Qashqai, I am not sure that they fully appreciated just what a smart move this would prove to be. Buoyed by good reviews, the Qashqai was an in...
Having enjoyed an Italian themed day at The Great British Car Journey, the relatively recent addition to the motor museum collection of the UK which celebrates the sort of everyday British vehicles with which many of is grew up, when I realised I would be passing by following another visit to The M...
That the three Caffeine & Machine locations are still popular is not in doubt, as the fact that available tickets for the weekend slots, especially in the summer months, frequently sell out. During the week, though, things tend to be somewhat quieter. To try to generate extra interest, for some ...
The first Peugeot cars took their numbers in strict chronological sequence, from the Type 1, but in 1929 when they got to the 201, they decided to follow a new format where the first digit would indicate the relative size of the car and the last digit would increase with each successive generation. ...
When considering event locations for the Italian Auto Moto Club’s 2025 program, whilst it was tempting simply to repeat the venues that had been used in the outgoing year, we were mindful of the fact that people do appreciate variety and so we wanted some places that we had not used before, or at le...