Opinion

Our passion for the thrill of driving owes so much to the thrill of Italy

Wash and learn - there's still life in the old car-design ways 

Lockdown reminds us how good it feels to get in a car - real or otherwise

Turning that tenner for the pub into petrol for my very own car was well, well worth it just to keep that first drive going

'With all-wheel drive and a price tag of just under £18,000, it was an Integrale Evo II for the common man'

The Commodore was a symbol of an old Australia, of mulleted blokes in vests skulling VB and rocking over-engined cars

I'm going to wean myself off the glamour and glitz and reconnect with stuff that's good for the soul

Car companies employ people whose entire job is wipers, and it's more complicated than you might assume

I cannot conceive of any moment where you wouldn't look like a complete pillock in any of them

In just a few weeks our mate had got a car, learnt to drive it and then broken it beyond repair. It was textbook

The motor car comes with several drawbacks, chief among which is meeting the appetite of the blasted things

Meaden feels the big boys should look to bike manufacturers for some 'less is more' inspiration

The higgledy-piggledy old place turned out some of the best-looking cars in the world

Doing the best part of 230mph in a Skoda Octavia vRS was strangely undramatic

Fernando Alonso was morphing into Dave Grohl by way of Laurence Llwelyn-Bowen

Why am I smitten? Because it's a car conceived and created by engineers and racers 

The mystery creak is the sole reason I've thought about selling it, or setting the damn thing on fire

Put simply, EVs don't live and breathe or require much in the way of effort or connection

It's contagious. And when you catch it, it's game over. Suddenly you've no idea what's right and good any more

Far from being a gloves-off clash of the titans, the new Hypercar class will also be a battle of Balance of Performance

The problem with the proliferation of alloy wheel choices is that it's exposing us to deliberately cack wheel design

The Mini's handling and the sheer tenacity of its road-holding were revelatory

A rear-engined Up GTI could have been the "mini 911" we thought we were getting with the soggy Smart-based Twingo

Sadly, the submissive new 911 now sits dutifully in the shadow of Porsche’s money-spinners

S1 Esprits catch my eye for the purity of that sensational shape and the seats trimmed like Jackie Stewart’s most lurid underpants

Stop the pace race! If you’re listening, manufacturers, less can actually be more

Eighty per cent of alloy wheels are scratched to buggery. And I hate that. It makes the car look terrible, and it speaks of carelessness

Concorde was the product of boundless ambition; Aston Martin's Valkyrie represents that same spirit too

The market for this car isn't a mythical throng of utility workers and cattle herders, it's suburban families who dream of G-wagens

Once the barrier lifts you enter a different realm. One entirely different, often vaguely military

You’d assume the Expedition is part of that US tradition of gumming modern gadgets to 50-year-old iron work. Except it isn’t

Supercar launches used to be something special, now they’re a monthly occurrence

It's actually an incredible piece of engineering. And as people who like cars we should also like incredible pieces of engineering

The most enjoyable and rewarding thing with four wheels and an internal combustion engine is a kart

The absolutely brilliant Alpine A110 is anything but sterile to drive

The demands the F40 places on you to keep it on the boil would never be sanctioned today