Opinion

Wash and learn - there's still life in the old car-design ways 

Lockdown reminds us how good it feels to get in a car - real or otherwise

Turning that tenner for the pub into petrol for my very own car was well, well worth it just to keep that first drive going

'With all-wheel drive and a price tag of just under £18,000, it was an Integrale Evo II for the common man'

The Commodore was a symbol of an old Australia, of mulleted blokes in vests skulling VB and rocking over-engined cars

In just a few weeks our mate had got a car, learnt to drive it and then broken it beyond repair. It was textbook

The motor car comes with several drawbacks, chief among which is meeting the appetite of the blasted things

Meaden feels the big boys should look to bike manufacturers for some 'less is more' inspiration

Doing the best part of 230mph in a Skoda Octavia vRS was strangely undramatic

The mystery creak is the sole reason I've thought about selling it, or setting the damn thing on fire

Put simply, EVs don't live and breathe or require much in the way of effort or connection

The problem with the proliferation of alloy wheel choices is that it's exposing us to deliberately cack wheel design

The Mini's handling and the sheer tenacity of its road-holding were revelatory

A rear-engined Up GTI could have been the "mini 911" we thought we were getting with the soggy Smart-based Twingo

Sadly, the submissive new 911 now sits dutifully in the shadow of Porsche’s money-spinners

S1 Esprits catch my eye for the purity of that sensational shape and the seats trimmed like Jackie Stewart’s most lurid underpants

Stop the pace race! If you’re listening, manufacturers, less can actually be more

Eighty per cent of alloy wheels are scratched to buggery. And I hate that. It makes the car look terrible, and it speaks of carelessness

Concorde was the product of boundless ambition; Aston Martin's Valkyrie represents that same spirit too

The market for this car isn't a mythical throng of utility workers and cattle herders, it's suburban families who dream of G-wagens

Once the barrier lifts you enter a different realm. One entirely different, often vaguely military

You’d assume the Expedition is part of that US tradition of gumming modern gadgets to 50-year-old iron work. Except it isn’t

Supercar launches used to be something special, now they’re a monthly occurrence

It's actually an incredible piece of engineering. And as people who like cars we should also like incredible pieces of engineering

The most enjoyable and rewarding thing with four wheels and an internal combustion engine is a kart

The absolutely brilliant Alpine A110 is anything but sterile to drive

The demands the F40 places on you to keep it on the boil would never be sanctioned today

I just liked the Rover 75. It was calming and comfortable. It also earned absolutely zero respect from other road users

There's a powerful craving for cars that are compact, characterful and beautiful

In a nutshell, the Aston Martin Goldfinger DB5 Continuation Edition is an expensive, largely unusable and deeply naff car for dullards

It’s the prescience of his observations and the relevance almost half a century later that really resonates

I’ve parked Ferraris outside my house and no one’s paid much attention, but everyone on my street went absolutely nuts for this

What excites me most is that it could be the beginning of a new and thrilling family of sports cars

Getting modern SUVs to handle in a half-decent manner is like getting a bear to dance: everyone's very impressed, but it's just not natural

The magazine road test is under threat at a time when it’s needed more than ever

This memory made me smile, but also made me sad, because I released I don't get quite as excited about cars as I used to...