That learners bible - the Highway Code - has just been revised, and guess what? It’s full of extra rules and ‘guidelines’ for drivers. Why? What’s the point? There are already ample laws to cover all eventualities of careless and dangerous driving, but this government seems hell-bent on issuing more and more dictats to cover [...]

Continue reading...

Yes, it’s another 911, this time the remarkable Porsche 911 GT2.
Following close on the heels of Ferrari with the F430 Scuderia comes Porsche with the 911 GT2, a car very much in the same vein - a road-legal track version of an already unbelievable piece of machinery.
I have always struggled with the Ferrari/Porsche dilemma. On [...]

Continue reading...

A new model from Ferrari is always an event, even more so when it’s launched by Michael Shumacher, which is exactly what happened at the Frankfurt Motor Show last week. And who was the biggest star? The car - by far!
The Ferrari F430 Scuderia is the long anticipated replacement for the 360 Challenge Stradale, that [...]

Continue reading...

We’ve all seen the headlines in the papers in the last few days about the guy doing 172mph in a ‘borrowed’ Porsche, and I’m sure the court had all the relevant information to conclude a sentence of 10 weeks and a 3 year ban was appropriate. But I have to say, there does seem to [...]

Continue reading...

Fun though it is to throw test cars round a track (and I can’t deny it has been known!), we do do try to use cars in the way a real owner would when we have a test car to run with. And so it was with the Audi Q7 4.2 fsi.
Audi have resisted entering [...]

Continue reading...

My inbox has been groaning recently with invites to MPH ‘07, that Petrol-Head annual treat presented by the Top Gear Mob. Worth a visit? Actually, yes it is.
I last went to the MPH show the year before last, taking an equally car-daft friend on his birthday. Is it a motor show in the true sense? [...]

Continue reading...

Is there room for another Cayenne model? We have the underpowered entry-level V6, the mad as a hatter Turbo and, the pick of the bunch, Cayenne S. So why have Porsche launched the GTS? Simple; it fills a real gap.
I have to hold my hands up and confess I use a Cayenne S every day, [...]

Continue reading...

The ‘Green’ bandwagon continues to roll on. When will people wake up to the reality that this is just an easy way for governments throughout the world to impose ever more punitive taxes in the name of ‘Saving the Planet’? We aren’t responsible for global warming - it’s a totally natural, cyclical, phenomenon - but, [...]

Continue reading...

Well, there’s a first. A completely trouble free experience from Hertz.
I was sure we would have problems. After all, I’d managed to squeeze a ridiculously low rate out of Hertz for the Chrysler Grand Voyager, so I was fully expecting to find that “Sorry sir, we don’t have the car you booked available”. But it [...]

Continue reading...

Yes, the time has come to put away childish things (to paraphrase Paul), and get out the bucket and spade. We’re off on our hols (the whole Beverly Hillbillies crew) so today is a mad rush to complete everything (or at least everything I won’t get shot for not doing in the next week) and [...]

Continue reading...