Archive for October, 2009

Well, I’ll be. My piece on Ford’s Walter Hayes? It’s only gone and got a response. From, no less, than his son, Richard Hayes. Honoured, me? You betcha! Luckily, Richard ...

VOLKSWAGEN is finally pensioning off its long-serving 1.9-litre TDI diesel. The car that really gave the modern diesel credibility has had a good innings, but it’s now being put out ...

LEYLAND Nationals are extremely popular, it seems. Following my recent blog, I’ve received loads of feedback… … including, via aronline, some more info. Mr. Kipling and Scott Hutchings have both ...

CARS famous for being bad are not hard to find, worryingly. Take the might of British Leyland, back in the 1970s. It foisted the Morris Marina upon us. Then had ...

SUNROOFS in cars have really fallen out of favour in recent times. Little wonder, now air con’s de rigueur. But I had a revelation last week, that made me realise ...

FORD’S Fiesta was the turning point. Before that, explained Ford’s handling God, Richard Parry-Jones, the blue oval had a schizophrenic approach to good handling. ‘We had good handling RS products, ...

I got a cracking book on buses from the library last weekend. It, in all its glory, is The British Bus Today and Tomorrow – which, seeing as it was ...

BMW’s M division are setting out to do more bespoke stuff for the AG giant. Enter the BMW M3 Edition Coupe, a super-special and very desirable version of the super-special ...

I don’t remember when car launches were for real men. Wish I had been about, though, back in 1983, when Peugeot launched the sacred 205. A small airfield in the ...

SKODA’S price list download function is, err, down. But instead of getting a boring old ‘Not Found’ message, Skoda’s exceedingly web-savvy net guys have designed a bespoke page. How cool ...