Jaguar XK
Jaguar XK
The Jaguar XK keeps getting better and better, despite an ignition glitch and a wallet-lightening service bill
6 Feb 2007
Jaguar XK
Jaguar XK
Peter Tomalin's still impressed by the Jag, and judging by the public's reaction, they are, too
5 Oct 2006
Westfield XI
Westfield XI
Our Westfield's gearbox had been whining with great character. Then it jammed...
5 Oct 2006
Jaguar XK
Jaguar XK
7 Aug 2006
Jaguar XK
Jaguar XK
The Jag arrived on a chill grey Tuesday morning in early April. I didn't get much work done that day, largely on account of leaving my desk every ten …
16 May 2006
Jaguar S-type 4.2 V8 R
Jaguar S-type 4.2 V8 R
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…
30 Mar 2006
Jaguar S-Type 4.2 V8 R
Jaguar S-Type 4.2 V8 R
The Jag has now been back with us for more than a month since the prolonged investigation into its electronic epilepsy. It has also become clear why i…
6 Feb 2006
Jaguar S-type 4.2 V8 R
Jaguar S-type 4.2 V8 R
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…
7 Nov 2005
Jaguar S-type 4.2 V8 R
Jaguar S-type 4.2 V8 R
The Jaguar has a comedian's sense of timing. We'd promised the kids three days at Disneyland Paris in the last week of the school holidays and, becaus…
3 Oct 2005
MG SV-R
MG SV-R
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 …
30 Aug 2005
Jaguar S-Type 4.2 V8 R
Jaguar S-Type 4.2 V8 R
How many of the gadgets on your car do you actually need? How many do you actually use? Give me air-conditioning and a good CD player and I'm happy; w…
3 Aug 2005
Jaguar S-type 4.2 V8 R
Jaguar S-type 4.2 V8 R
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…
6 Jun 2005
Jaguar S-type 4.2 V8 R
Jaguar S-type 4.2 V8 R
A memory comes back to me from the early '90s, of driving the then-new 3.8-litre version of the M5. I can vividly remember being blown away by the Bee…
11 Apr 2005
Nissan 350Z
Nissan 350Z
Regular readers will know I've become a massive fan of the latest-generation Z-car. I reckon it's one of the greatest affordable performance cars of t…
7 Feb 2005
Jaguar S-type 4.2 V8 R
Jaguar S-type 4.2 V8 R
Jaguar is back in the headlines this month, and this time for the right reasons. Finally it has revealed the car it should have built at least five ye…
7 Feb 2005
Nissan 350Z
Nissan 350Z
The 350Z's 3.5-litre V6 has always made a good noise; there's just never been quite enough of it. The obvious answer is to fit a freer-breathing exhau…
6 Dec 2004
Nissan 350Z
Nissan 350Z
I've done a few stupid things in my time. Leaving my brand new pushbike parked under the wheels of a coal delivery lorry when I was seven. Trying to c…
5 Nov 2004
Nissan 350Z
Nissan 350Z
I hadn't realised the Z had been racking up the miles so quickly, and I'd overshot the 20,000-mile service; fortunately Camden Nissan of Northampton t…
11 Oct 2004