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Diecast Delights: An MGF Roadster in 1:18 Scale.
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Cars come and cars go, and the majority pass into obscurity without leaving much to remember them by. The MGF was an interesting development in the late history of the Rover group, turning up in the mid ’90s as a mid-engined shock to the rather conservative Rover system. The development process had been a protracted…
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Operation "SAVE THE PEUGEOT" (Part 2)
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When I left off last time we had just nursed my Wife’s beloved Peugeot 306 home having recovered from the scrap line at the back of a faceless body repair centre in an Ipswich industrial complex. I say nursed it home, in reality it drove absolutely no differently post accident to how it did before;…
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Weekend Edition: Rovercome By Variety- The Agony Of Choice
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As Hooniverse’s official British Leyland apologist, it was bound to be me who started foaming at the mouth when the email landed. 1977ChevyTruck of this parish (hat-tip… thanks Good Sir) dropped a line to the official 24hr Hooniverse Emergency Rapid Response hotline. There’s a guy in Edmonton Alberta who, it seems, is having a bit…
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The Carchive: The Datsun 280C
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So, it’s now Friday afternoon And it came not a moment too soon. Lets take time to explore, A car brochure from yore, While eating tinned pears with a spoon. It’s time for the Carchive, which this week means visiting Japan in 1980 to bask in the sheer magnificence of the Datsun 280c.
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Icelandic Odyssey: The Finest Roads I Have Ever Driven.
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It was, by its very nature, a driving holiday. When you have ten days to see as much of an island as you can, it’s going to mean a lot of wheel-time. However, frankly, you don’t hold out much hope for invigoration while piloting an Opel Corsa with an automatic gearbox. However, sometimes the stars…
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V.I.S.I.T: An Icelandic Selection
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I was staggered, I tell you. Blown away. Awestruck, dumbfounded and hornswaggled. Iceland is a tiny island with a population less than a third of a million souls. I couldn’t possibly have imagined the sheer diversity of cars that I would find during my recent trip to this beautiful, fascinating country. Click the jump below…
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The Growing Swamp of Terrible Car Books
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Have you ever read a motoring publication that was so bad it actually made you angry? They are out there, books which promise one thing and deliver quite another. A lot of these books as generous gifts by well-meaning family members (and before I mercilessly slay the book pictured above, I’d like to first thank…
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Project Audinary: Getting One's Swagger Back
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The effect that a new shirt can have on you is staggering. A night out is transformed through the simple expedient of knowingly looking fly, especially if you’ve gone through an extended period of being somewhat down at heel. To catch a glimpse of yourself in the mirror, looking smarter, crisper, fresher than you remember…
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The Carchive: Maserati Biturbo 222 and 430
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Once again Friday is upon us, for which we let out a collective hurricane of relaxed exhalation. In the dusty parking lot in which I type this, the sun is beating down and I’m in a really good mood. It’s also my birthday, and as has become customary this means airing one of the more…
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Rotten Rental Car Reviews: Opel Corsa Automatic
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We were in Iceland. We wanted to see stuff we had never seen before, and we needed transport by which to travel around. And that was exactly what we got. We love to use the tag Rotten Rental Car reviews here; but in truth there was nothing rotten at all about this one. Well, as…
