Features

Back to Library >
ti icon

Features

Eyes on the prize

4 years ago

Writer:

Henry Catchpole | Journalist

Date:

3 March 2022

Sometimes the answer is right in front of you. I was driving along the A422 this evening wondering what the devil I was going to write for this week’s column and drawing a resolute blank.

I could almost hear Dan’s fingers drumming on his desk, impatient for some words to feed to the ever-hungry app. And then there it was, floating in the middle distance like some ghostly answer to my prayers.

I’m sure you have by now devoured the excellent article that Andrew English wrote a few days ago about the multiple irritants that mar modern cars. I read it nodding in agreement. Dastardly distractions, needless complications and technological backward steps all packaged up and served as progress.

Get full access to The Intercooler for four weeks for just £1, with no commitment!

Four weeks for £1

Why sign up for four weeks?

  • Read this article right away
  • Get full access to The Intercooler's daily articles
  • Access the entire archive of 1500 stories and more than two million words
  • Listen to The Intercooler's weekly podcast ad-free
  • Get the subscriber-only midweek podcast, Ask The Intercooler
  • Listen to our daily stories as mini podcasts
  • No commitment, no subscription. Just full access for four weeks

Already subscribed? Click here to log in.

ti icon

Library

Our Cars: Audi S e-tron GT

Have a couple of long trips with away-from-home charging dented Dan Prosser’s enthusiasm for his electric Audi? Not one bit

Art of racing

This weekend, a BMW Art Car will race at Le Mans for the first time in 14 years. Gavin Green looks at it and back to the good, the boring and the bonkers Art Cars from the past

Breakthrough: The overhead camshaft – Part one

In part one of this feature about valvetrain development, David Twohig explains the importance and origins of the overhead camshaft

Bowled over

Andrew Frankel didn’t think the Bowler Defender Challenge car would be difficult to master. But he reckoned without the environment in which he would be driving

The law is an ass. Sometimes…

Why are cars getting bigger and heavier? Because in part, as David Twohig somewhat staggeringly reveals, EU law actually encourages it

The Real Influencers: Giorgetto Giugiaro

Of all the astonishingly talented car designers there have been, for Gavin Green one stands head and shoulders above the rest