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Enzo Ferrari reached across his desk and pressed a button on a little control panel. Instantly his office door opened and his attendant scurried in. Ferrari spoke gruffly...
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It’s the quilted lining in the engine bay. You pull the release, saunter round to the back of the car, lift the lid and there it is. Like a drill bit in a jewellery box. An internal combustion engine...
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Dear Colin, I have been a car enthusiast all my life and have succeeded enough to be able to indulge my passion to a limited extent. But what I have failed to do is pass...
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In the 135-year history of the motor car, most memorable have been the small ones. Alec Issigonis’s Mini, Dante Giacosa’s Fiat 500, Stanley Edge’s Austin Seven, Ferdinand...
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Truly it was a car I tried hard not to buy. It was just too obvious. I needed a daily driver but this? An E46 BMW M3? So predictable, so very unsurprising...
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Crashing the first Lamborghini Diablo allowed out of captivity should have ended my attempt to work in Europe. Long before the career move from Australia began to pay dividends...
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Back in 2010, when I was a giddy young enthusiast starting high school, I'd pass by a small used car dealership on my way. It was always worth peeking through the gates...
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It had taken five years, which I didn’t think was too bad. Five years of hard slog, nearly losing my job on countless occasions, schlepping around Autocar’s various departments...