MG needs to get back to its sports car roots
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OPAL FRUITS, Stephen Fry’s tweets and Top of the Pops . It’s funny how you only really start appreciating some things when they’re gone. In ...
Showing posts with label sports car. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sports car. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Why Britain needs the Mitsuoka Roadster - even if you hate it
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APOLOGIES if you’ve come here expecting a thorough dusting down of the new Vauxhall Astra . As family-friendly hatches go it’s hugely import...
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
TVR is back - but patience is a virtue
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IT'S GREAT news that TVR is back . After so many rumours and false starts it finally looks as though things are looking up for my favou...
Saturday, May 16, 2015
Why it isn't hard to get a go in your favourite car
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FORGET swimming with dolphins or selfies in front of the Taj Mahal. Surely the ultimate red letter day has to be driving your favourite car....
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Lotus and Ariel take their sports cars off road
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THE INTERNET is currently bursting at the seams with people wondering whether they’re going to get their hoverboards this year. It’s 2015, ...
Sunday, October 5, 2014
The Mazda MX-5 has lost weight. I have not
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A BIT like those village fete competitions where you have to guess how many pickles really are in the jar, every petrolhead and his dog are ...
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Mazda - please don't ruin the MX-5
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AT 2am tomorrow morning (4 September) petrolheads will be treated to an event that’s only happened three times in the past quarter of a cent...
Monday, June 2, 2014
Fire up the... Alfa Romeo 4C
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YOU know as soon as you sink into the 4C’s leather-lined bucket seats that it isn’t like Alfa’s other offerings. True, this slice of Italian...
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
The Jaguar F-type may be beautiful, but...
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THE other day I ticked off another entry from my car lover’s bucket list. I have, after what feels like an eternity, finally driven the Jagu...
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Mazda Eunos Roadster - a return to form for Life On Cars
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After very reluctantly getting rid of a 1990 Mazda MX-5 last April , Life On Cars writer and Classic Car Weekly news editor David Simister...
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
David Brown will have a tough job developing a new sports car
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IMAGINE the biggest number you can think of and then multiply it by ten. Nope, you’re still nowhere near how much it costs to develop a new...
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Kia gets it right with the GT4 Stinger
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THINGS are looking grim in America at the moment. While you were busy worrying about high tides and gale force winds, people on the Eastern ...
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Aston Martin and AMG Mercedes confirm engines agreement
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ASTON MARTIN has signed an agreement with Mercedes which will see the British sports car using the German firm’s engines in years to come. ...
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Winter is here. Thank God for Honda and its new small sports car
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IT’S that time of year again – the bit where I’m dreading more motoring misery and driving home in the dark. A flotsam of leaves have fallen...
Monday, September 23, 2013
Alfa Romeo 4C is finally ready for the UK
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It might have been a long time coming, but Alfa Romeo has finally confirmed the UK details of its striking 4C sports car. The company said t...
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Don't get stung by one of driving's biggest distractions
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IT WAS on a fine summer’s afternoon I discovered perhaps the most dangerous driving distraction known to man. The Government’s answered call...
Sunday, May 12, 2013
New Porsche 911 Turbo ups the supercar ante
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If you’ve won the lottery lately and fancy showing up your neighbours with a shiny new supercar, then the latest in a long line of turbochar...
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Desire is brilliant, but what about the F-Type?
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ANYONE remember that Peugeot 406 advert from absolutely ages ago? You'll know the one I mean . A girl in the path of an oncoming lorry g...
Friday, March 29, 2013
Morgan - a traditional sort of sports car
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I'VE been asked, by my new employers, to find a secondhand car for sale at one of Britain's hundreds of classic car dealers and take...
Saturday, March 23, 2013
End of term report: Mazda MX-5
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THE roof has been lowered one last time. The revvy little twin cam engine has been switched off. I have, after nearly two years of small spo...
