It’s been a busy week, and apart from the real kick of having a Ferrari 599 to play with, I had a couple of hours with the somewhat mad Mercedes C63 AMG (it would have been even madder if it had been a C55!). Now I’ve already said what a great engine this first ‘Real’ [...]

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I didn’t grow up lusting after Ferraris. My passion was Aston Martin. Maybe it was James Bond. But I’m pretty sure it was nothing more than the fact that, in my eyes, Aston Martins were quite simply the most beautiful cars on the planet. They still are. And if a wanted a poster for my [...]

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And then there were two.
A few weeks ago we brought you news of the Bentley Brooklands. A full-size, ultra luxury, four-seat coupe. It had the market place to itself, as big coupes of this ilk have disappeared from the market in the last decade. But we did say to look out for the Rolls Royce [...]

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Back in the summer, when we went mob-handed to annex Javea, I was supposed to get my hands on a Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet to play with on the mountain roads. But it didn’t happen. Why? Who knows. Perhaps the fact that they were very, very thin on the ground had something to do with [...]

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I adore Aston Martins. They are, even now, so quintessentially British. They have managed to keep the Gentleman’s Club interiors but still conspire to be totally contemporary. It’s not an easy trick, but the interior on the DB9 is one of, if not the best interiors on any car. Bar none. And they still feel [...]

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I love good adverts. Think Guinness Horses. I suppose a background in advertising and marketing makes it inevitable, but when a gem of an advert comes along it eclipses the show that surrounds it. When the production values and the sheer intelligence of the advert make you smile, and the little hairs on the back [...]

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As I’ve said before, ‘concept’ cars aren’t concepts anymore. They are the car makers way of saying “Our guys have come up with this. What do you think? Will you buy it?”. They’re not one step up from the clay models of old, but in most cases fully working cars. Sure, they may not have [...]

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