ULEZ with a twist
how to design a ULEZ.and not lose elections. Would have allowed me to keep my Mondeo... https://www.ft.com/content/c476db8d-ab81-4936-855c-89033d60abc2
For Flux Sake’ – Motor Racing Book of the Year
Ian Flux is a motorsport legend. If it had four wheels and an engine, chances are he’d get a podium finish against all the odds. Flux was no boring robodriver he embraced everything that racing success could offer both on and off the track. Cheeky, but always...
Yuri Bezmenov predicted Demotorization in 1984 and the tyranny of woke
In case you wondered why our car national car industry has been undermined and destroyed, electricity vehicles have become the only acceptable way forward, and climate change is now a religion, one man explained how this would happen in 1984. Few listened. Yuri...
Jazz Glasses by Black Eyewear
Black Eyewear is the creation of optician and lifelong jazz devotee, Robert Roope. It was the late 60s, Roope was living in Copenhagen. He was a regular at the world-renowned jazz club Jazzhus Montmartre. These are the sort of glasses that every Free Car Mag reader...
Car & Classic asks Artificial Intelligence to imagine classic car owners’ ideal home
The biggest online classic and specialist vehicle marketplace in Europe, Car & Classic, has ventured into the digital world of AI by briefing a generative imaging AI programme to imagine in what kind of property owners of specific classic cars are likely to live. Of...
Hyundai Ioniq 6 Reviewed
The Hyundai Ioniq 5 broke the mould with its retro-futuristic styling that fused imposing boxy lines with charismatic angles and detail touches like matrix lighting. The family SUV was going to be a hard act to follow. To go one-up in terms of number sequence, ie...
Toyota GR86 Review
Don’t bother reading this review. This car won’t appeal to you. At least that’s what the market research must be telling the car industry. Apparently, nobody wants small, fun, front-engined, rear-driven, impractical sports cars, powered by an ‘old-fashioned’ petrol...
We build a Lego Land Rover
Free Car Mag’s editor was given Lego Technic Defender on the occasion of a significant birthday by overly generous family members. However, because he is certainly inept and definitely lazy, it stayed in it’s box for a few years. Luckily the Free Car Mag product...
Bag a Convertible at Car & Classic
Car & Classic - the largest online marketplace in Europe for classic and specialist vehicles - may give the widest choice of convertible fun, reaching beyond the UK for one’s dream car. The MGB is the epitome of British classic sports car fun, and for decades was the...
How to Choose the Right Car For You
Buying a new car is exciting but for most of us, it’s a major purchase, and deciding which car to go for isn’t always easy. Here are some tips on how to pick a car that works well for you and your family so you’re not left feeling like your car is more of a hassle...
Orient Star ISO Diver
Free Car Mag have quite a few divers in our watch collection but none are quite as stylish as the new ISOs... An impressive fusion of timeless design and superior watchmaking, this new Orient Star 43.6mm mechanical sports diver watch offers several distinctive...
Multi Year Calendar Watches from Orient
Free Car Mag are the world's biggest watch fans and we rather adore this great value model which is never going out of date, well not for a few years anyway. Here are the details. The new Multi Year Calendar models feature a one-of-a-kind display incorporating year,...
Classic BMW up Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb
Shahzad Sheikh was invited by Motul, the global French company that makes oil and lubricants for cars, and has traditionally had strong motorsports connections, to take part in a session with the Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb Driving School located in Worcestershire,...
Classic Austin Healey 3000 & 100/6 Converted to Electric
Revival Autos in London gives new lease of life to vintage British Roadsters A pair of stunning and beautifully restored Austin Healeys sit awaiting my attention. The Blue car is a 1965 Healey 3000, and the white car is a 1957 100/6. It’s a bright sunny day, we’re in...
Most stolen cars in UK according to Confused.com
As car theft continues to rise in the UK, with over 130,000 cars being stolen in the last year, how likely is it that your car could become a target? Confused.com car insurance experts have analysed DVLA data to find out the most stolen car makes and models in the UK,...
Falken ready for the 24-hour marathon at The Green Hell
One of the most sensational motorsport spectacles of the year is heading to the starting grid: this year's 24-hour race on the Nürburgring-Nordschleife will start on May 20th. Once again, the teal and blue race cars from Falken are entered for the race: two Porsche...
Narrowing Our Horizons
STORY & PICTURES MATTHEW CORRIGAN We took a last, wistful look across the fields, taking in the joyous sight of lambs gambolling irresponsibly in the spring sunshine. Beyond lay the ocean, a benign blue line in stark contrast to the towering, angry waves that had...
Car & Classic have the perfect GTE for your ’80s revival
We love the '80s at Free Car Mag and we reckon the perfect way tp get back there would be this wonderful Astra GTE convertible at Car and Classic https://www.carandclassic.com/auctions/1989-vauxhall-astra-gte-convertible-8bvKo8 If you buy it let us know so we can come...
Matilda’s First Car
In Issue 113 of Free Car Mag Kiran Parmar met woodworker and automotive restorer Billy Walden (https://shorturl.at/ekszA) and later he met his sister Matilda when she successfully completed her challenge of becoming the fastest person ever to assemble a ‘Mr Potato...
Hyundai Ioniq 5 – nod to the past, glimpse of the future
When the Hyundai Ioniq 5 was introduced just over a year ago, jaws dropped. This all-new, all-electric crossover referenced Hyundai’s inaugural production car, and indeed South Korea’s first car, the Pony, from 1975. Squint and you’ll recognise the proportions and...
