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When Ford launched the four-door Sierra Sapphire RS Cosworth – the last of the fast Sierras – in 1988 it flew journalists like me to Taormina in Sicily to test it...
Features
Recently, in those idle moments when I’ve been waiting for the microwave to ping or the traffic lights to change or some shoelaces to finish being tied...
Features
In February just past, The Financial Times reported that Porsche was going to the markets with what is known as an Initial Public Offering (IPO). Wow, Porsche is for sale...
Features
Ideas are funny things, aren’t they? Where do they come from? Do they just pop into the mind from nowhere, or are they some kind of inspired thought-association...
Motorsport
I expected to see the enormous 3D-printing machines and the carefully guarded clean room where carbon fibre parts are laid up, plus the serried ranks of computer screens...
Motorsport
Along with the usual admiration I have for the talent of my mentor Mel Nichols, I read his tale of the AC 3000ME with some amusement. Not just because...
Features
Thirty years ago, Jaguar unveiled the fastest road car it had ever made. Three decades later, it still is. Then it was also the fastest car in the world, and by some margin...
Universe
It’s 1am. Two young men stand under an enormous wall of rock, snow and ice. It’s mid-summer but they are at an altitude of around 2100 metres, so it’s bitterly cold...