Loves cars, especially old cheap ones. Drives a fossilised Land Rover and original Mini Cooper. Incredibly, has won awards for journalism and books.
Land Rover stopped people in their tracks today as the Discovery Sport SUV towed three luxury train carriages weighing more than 100 tonnes along a railway track in a demonstration of towing capability. The 10km journey through the Rhine region of northern Switzerland put the compact Discovery Sport’s pulling power to the ultimate test. Though
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For one day only, the population of the tiny village of Saint- Saturnin, just north of Le Mans, swells to over four times its usual number thanks to an invasion of classic cars. That day is the Friday before the famous 24-hour race, when the Classic British Welcome attracts around 10,000 visitors and over 1200
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Reassuring news today courtesy of Honda which reveals that us Brits actually laze about on our holidays doing hardly anything at all, which is surely the whole point of a holiday. Bring it on, as they say. Oh yes and Honda have also made our infographic of the year so far with added kangeroo. The
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Is your Lamborghini’s bodywork looking a little too plasticky? Vitesse AuDessus, purveyors of bespoke carbon fibre products for the world’s most exciting and exclusive automobiles, has just announced the launch of an extensive carbon fibre package for the Lamborghini Aventador LP 750-4 Superveloce Coupé and Roadster. The offering is comprehensive and includes every external body
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The world’s first supercar celebrates it’s 50th birthday and the Lamborghini Miura has been doing it in style as these wonderful films demonstrate. The Miura Tour, the biggest Miura rally organized by Automobili Lamborghini in celebration of the iconic Lamborghini model’s fiftieth anniversary, concluded in Florence with a display in Piazza Ognissanti. Twenty brightly-colored Lamborghini
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Free Car Mag very generously gave it almost three episodes and we are not impressed. Free Car Mag knows a bit about cars on telly and some of our number have been on it, produced it, scripted it and seen how difficult it is to produce compelling content. The golden rules are that it should
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There is a film out called Learning to Drive and Ben Kingsley’s in it, but frankly it looks a bit dull. However, if Melissa McCarthy was in it, well that’s a different and probably much better story. Thank goodness that Melissa is here to save our weekend. She is ‘The Boss’ and we already love
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Football-mad Reliant owner lands massive three figure sponsorship deal from Ladbrokes for his ‘Bootmobile’ Football fan Nathan Whitfield has had his dream of converting his Reliant Robin into a giant football boot turned into a reality, thanks to a massive three-figure sponsorship deal from Ladbrokes. Nathan, 26, self-styled ‘Bootman’ unveiled his ‘Bootmobile’ in central London
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Here is our new favourite film that we haven’t seen yet. All we know is…A secret government agency recruits imprisoned supervillains to execute dangerous black ops missions in exchange for release. The thing is though they are quite likely to die and have fun while that happens. The Joker is in it and can be
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye has been awarded the prestigious Visual Art prize at the 2016 South Bank Sky Arts Awards. The honour was sponsored by DS Automobiles and forms part of the marque’s exclusive partnership with Sky Arts. A fleet of DS 5 cars ensured the Visual Art nominees and a number of celebrity guests, including Twiggy
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