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Spacious, reliable and quick. We'll miss our Vectra VXR long-termer

A quick pitstop for the VXR as we get a foglight fixed

Computer says 'no' on our Vectra

Fresh tyres restore the Vectra's poise

2500 miles in a week and the VXR ran like a Swiss watch

Serious mileage this month and the Vectra VXR coped admirably

All is well but the Vectra's route finder talks with a forked tongue

Our new fleet addition, Vauxhall's Vectra VXR, takes Andy Morgan back to his childhood

It's time to say goodbye to 'our' Trophy. It will be missed, but it wasn't without flaw.

It started as a stone chip. Then it became a little crack, but I thought I'd leave it. I can't quite remember the point when it lengthened to connect …

We took our Megane R.S 225 Trophy on track for the first time to see how it would fair against its smaller sibling.

Although I have owned my Carrera GT for four months, it has taken that long to have the car prepared, not least because of the full respray which I de…

When the first S-types appeared in the late '90s, I hated them with a passion. Too many focus groups and styling clinics had produced a throwback to a…

Hot hatches offer some of the best value for affordable performance. Step up Astra VXR...

Bastards! I think that just about says it all, really. Quite what 'MINE BITCH' is meant to signify I'm not sure, but no doubt it was hilarious at the …

Don't buy a Monaro if you want to join a club. Since our long-termer arrived ten months and almost 15,000 miles ago, I haven't seen another on the roa…

With Project XI well underway, I've effectively got two project cars on the go simultaneously, as I'm also transforming our humble Hyundai Coupe into …

Our Megane went in for its first service

The brilliant new 4WD Audi RS4 has the BMW M3 CS and Mercedes C55 AMG firmly in its sights

The last evoactive trackday of the year, at Brands in late September, was set to be a super-sliding smokefest. I had cunningly contrived to have a set…

Last month's report, you may recall, ended on something of a cliff-hanger. The Jag had developed a number of intermittent faults, starting with the ce…

How would the Megane fair over a weekend break to the Yorkshire moors?

After a whole year and over 15,000 miles with the Evo VIII MR FQ-340, two memories in particular stand out as defining moments. The first was just thr…

Gallardo and M5 are both powered by V10s, but which is mightier, and which more fun?

There was always an air of slight surreality surrounding the MG SV-R, and now that it's gone we almost have to pinch ourselves to believe it was ever …

We took our Megane R.S 225 Trophy to Monte Carlo for the iconic Monaco Gran Prix

Can Ferrari's baby Enzo, the F430, go up a class and beat the supercar giants, the new Zonda F and Carrera GT? We find out

I think I may be turning into my father, which is slightly unsettling, though not as unsettling as turning into my mother. I started thinking about th…