ARCTIC ROLL

A 500-odd mile road trip sounds easy peasy, but throw in some of the most inhospitable conditions anywhere in the world and things begin to get interesting. Phil Huff reports on an extra special expedition in Mazda’s CX-3 all-wheel-drive.    During our briefing, the words ìbeing out of the vehicle for any length of time […]

Life In The Rough

Since its demise at the start of this year, the Land Rover Defender  has become seriously hot property. But few owners seem keen to keep things original,  and if you want to  invest in upgrades, the sky is the limit…   It’s funny how things evolve. When Land Rover launched the Series 1   soon after World War II, it was […]

Jeerbox

Fine tuning your driving Getting the best from your car begins with being a happy driver: Simon Hacker rummages through the glovebox for a musical tune-up that might ensure man and machine co-exist in harmony. 1 This month’s theme of tuning and economy offers a timely opportunity for us to air an oft-forgotten truth: music soothes […]

Shared Space

For fifty years, separation of traffic and people has been the aim of all street design, but now planners are keen to mix it up. What’s happening, and why?   Pavements originated as cleaner walkways at a time when the streets were made of mud, horse manure and worse. With the advent of motor vehicles […]

Clarion NX706E

As each new car is launched, it boasts of greater connectivity with this, better harmonisation with that, but what if you quite like your current car, but would like a technology upgrade for music and to include navigation. A new top-of-the-range system from Clarion is a double-DIN system with CD, DVD, radio and navigation sources, […]