Scalextric Back to the Future vs Knight Rider

Here’s one for kids and big kids alike; Scalextric’s Back to the Future vs Knight Rider tribute to 1980s TV. Surely one of the most evocative kits in years, it includes Michael Knight’s KITT and the famous DeLorean in scale form with working lights, along with 20 track pieces for a total length of 5.3 […]

Size matters

I recently made the acquaintance of Chester’s Pepper Street car park, and if you’re a local, you’ll know what a joy that was.  Apparently dating from the early 1960s and abutting Chester’s city walls, the Chester Live website was moved to describe Pepper Street thus: “Cramped, damp, dirty. Ugly, ill-planned, unfitting. Concrete, but not even […]

Skoda Scala Monte Carlo 1.0 TSI

Report 4 It’s funny how you get attached to certain cars. Month four with the Scala has led me to contemplating life without it. That should happen around Christmastime, unless I can persuade Skoda to let me have it for longer. It isn’t that I am in love with the car, so much as it […]

Moving on up

The dictum that less is more doesn’t seem to apply to cars. The number of features most of them contain is frankly ridiculous. Many of them are there to give showroom lackies things that glitter and hypnotise punters into buying. Ambient lighting is a good example. A while back I borrowed a Mercedes-Benz A-Class that […]

Peugeot e-2008 Allure Premium

Continuous development is the best way of ensuring that products are up to date, and Peugeot has certainly embraced that with its popular pure electric e-2008. An increase in the optimum driving range from 206 to 212 miles has been achieved thanks to the fitment of A+ efficiency rated low rolling resistance tyres, and a […]