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The Carchive: The Dodge 50 Series Trucks.
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It’s 19:28, I’m watching NCIS on DVD, floating on a cocktail of paracetamol and ibuprofen and surrounded by ample supplies of three-ply tissues. Much of my face is red raw through repeated nose-blowing endeavours, I’m deaf in my right ear and the room spins gently whenever I raise my eyes anywhere above the horizon. Welcome…
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Goodwood 2016: BMW and Mini- the conceptual stretching of brands?
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There didn’t seem to be as many concept cars at the Goodwood Festival of Speed this year as there usually are, but those which did appear are worth a bit of discussion. The two I present to you here are both from the fevered imagination of BMW, one being displayed in a courtyard of Goodwood…
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Goodwood: Jaguar Land Rover – Prototype dealership of the future?
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If you have a substantial quantity of money or a credit entitlement ring-fenced for purchase of a car, you trot down to your chosen car dealership and, well, a painfully mundane experience soon unfolds. You turn up, introduce yourself at the reception desk to find out whether a salesman can be roused from their slumber.…
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Goodwood: Ferrari- Age shall not wither them.
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The Ferrari 312P is one of the more unmistakable shapes that sports car racing ever saw, and has been appearing in magazines, historic racing almanacs and luxuriously produced history books in six decades. It’s a 48 year old shape, with technology under the surface of equal vintage. Yet it’s still more than capable of showing…
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Goodwood's Roaring Forties: An Orgy Of Ford GT40s.
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Anybody here like Ford GT40s? I know that not everybody is totally giddy with glee about the way Ford won its class at Le Mans this year, but that does nothing to undo anything that the near mythical sports-racer has achieved. Fittingly, this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed played host to more GT40s in a…
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Goodwood: The UK's premier auto shopping street
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The Goodwood Festival of Speed reminds me what it is I don’t like about motor-shows. Mostly they take place in massive indoor halls, great for protection from the weather, but terrible for natural lighting. Therefore, a zillion lightbulbs machinegun the whole place with lumens from every possible direction creating a constant, uncomfortable glare. Furthermore, there’s…
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Aston Martin V12 Vantage S: Taking A Visceral Trip
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So, what makes an Aston Martin? Well, it needs to be powerful, of course. Something like a V12 with 554hp would be great. Ideally, if it’s still possible it should be normally aspirated. You should be able to hear the engine gasping in big lungfuls of air and the throttle should crack open instantly. It…
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Slip Slidin' Away: Wet and Wild at Goodwood
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When you’ve got a couple of hundred classic cars, many of which are historically significant, some of which are utterly priceless, you have to be careful. As we all note every time we read the reverse of our ticket, “Motorsport Can Be Dangerous”. Bad things can happen on even the best, tamest or driest racing…
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Automotive Nirvana: Welcome to Goodwood
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It’s the greatest show on Earth, probably. As I type this a gentleman has just lightly crashed a Porsche 917 Pan Am, causing very mild cosmetic damage to the venerable, vulnerable aluminium panelwork, probably causing more, altogether uglier, damage to his underpants in the process. Meanwhile, Nick Mason of Pink Floyd is powering a 1936…
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V.I.S.I.T: Derek's Sidelined Vauxhall Astra
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You could say that Derek had been a “motoring enthusiast” rather than a car guy. He used to love to take Doreen out for a little jaunt in the countryside, they’d find a nice pub, have the same meal every time (Hunters Chicken and a John Smiths for him, a Ploughmans and a dry white…
