Memorable launch moments

On a fine mid-summer day, on a car launch, in Italy, all was well with the world. I was sharing a test car with a chum, we were enjoying a natter about the event, our impressions of the car – a Fiat – and life in general. We had just left behind us an enjoyably […]

Great roads

The past year and a half have given all of us time to ponder on the things we have missed most during an exceptional diversion from normality. Friends, family, and freedom have all been on pause. So too has travel, and the option to drive where we want, and when we want to. Now, though, […]

Brazilian’s all round

Sitting amid tropical flowers on a hotel terrace, I had to pinch myself to believe that this was the start of another working day. Fresh exotic fruits were a colourful sight on the breakfast table, and just a couple of feet away, vibrant hummingbirds in hovering flight were sipping nectar from a suspended feeder. It […]

Memories are made of these…

Some might say that motoring journalists have lived something of a high life over the years. Never was it higher than when I gazed out of a window at 60,000 feet above the earth’s surface, with enough height to see the curvature of the earth, while travelling at a speed of Mach 2, which equates […]

Fire and ice

Peering down into murky blackness in sub-zero temperatures, it was hard to believe that anything could be living there, deep beneath my thickly-booted feet. I was gazing into a hole cut in the unforgiving ice of a frozen lake in Swedish Lapland, watching for any sign of a twitch on the fishing line I had […]

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