Transporter of delight

If research from RoSPA (those safety-obsessed people who allegedly sleep in high-vis pyjamas) is true, you might be best advised to forget all the dangers out on the open road and focus instead on the ones right next to you. RoSPA’s analysis of a study in 2019 from the Department for Transport suggested that 3% […]
Going anywhere vehicular for your holidays, sir?
Place names that have graced the flanks of some of the world’s most memorable cars also happen to be pretty interesting places to visit – even if you admit that you don’t know your Italian ski resorts from Ford’s back catalogue. But let’s not rush ahead. Our journey, pandemic permitting, of course, begins like any […]
Three jeers for the badmobile

The perfect wheels for a chemistry teacher or discreet drug kingpin, Walter White’s 2004 Pontiac Aztek was the most inspired piece of autocasting in a generation of dark-comedy drama. Officially, the Aztek was chosen to match 2008 drama Breaking Bad’s setting in New Mexico, given the badge references. But its brutally angular resonance with Walter’s […]
SSANGYONG MUSSO RHINO LWB AUTOMATIC

Report 7 Like the birds and bees, evolution in the auto kingdom can be untrustworthy. Looking at weight as an index of progress, you’d think manufacturing and technology advances would make cars inexorably lighter. But as we know, safer spells kilos added. And then there’s dimensional creep. If you beheld our Musso Rhino three decades […]
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It’s fitting that in a nation that both loves cars and queueing, we’re now tucking into a supersize portion of ‘drive-thru’ culture. Over the last year, we’ve got used to doing nothing and going nowhere. In these rarer moments of tier-restricted freedom, staying inside our cars has become the new going out. And by and […]