Mar
21
Sometimes, if you are lucky, you step out into a crisp spring evening and the mind clears, the spirit soars and your journey home becomes something which transcends the sum of your car’s parts. Last night, it was such a night for me. I had a forty mile drive home, along roads to which I …
Mar
18
As Queen once sang: The machine of a dream, such a clean machine. With the rotors a spinnin’, and the alloys all gleam. When I’m holding your wheel, All I hear is your gear, With my hands on your grease gun, Oh it’s like a disease son, I’m in love with my car, gotta feel …
Mar
15
I don’t know about you, but I think it is utterly criminal to cover up the RX8s cheeky little lemon-wedge grin up with a socking great numberplate. Of course, it could be worse; I mean, have you seen the hideous thing that they stick on the front of North Americans Rex’s?! It makes them look …
Mar
13
So, recently I had to sell the best car I had ever owned – a BMW 730d (E65 variant). I could happily write a couple of thousand words on this car, and perhaps I will if I get enough time one day. But this post is not about said car, it is mainly about …
Mar
13
It has often been said that we learn much of what we hold dear when fully developed from our parents; I was, in many ways, very fortunate growing up to have two older brothers and a father who were all dedicated to the burning of that hydrocarbon we all know and love called petrol. When …
