Why Theory?

I was fortunate enough to be one of the winners of the Michelin winter tyre testing day at Silverstone, offered up on PetrolBlog last yea...

 Hello world, it’s been a while.  Various other commitments have distracted me from writing for some time now but I will now m...

Having put a sizeable dent in the side of my Rover 200 Coupé, the hunt was on for a new car. The first car I looked at was a Mk...

This week a one owner, high mileage Vauxhall Vectra has grabbed my attention. You’d be forgiven for thinking that this is an ex-...

The September 5 th issue of Autocar contains a very interesting interview with Ford CEO Allan Mulally - a man who managed to tu...

Brown, I keep going on about it and I don't intend to stop anytime soon. In a world which looked very much in danger of being taken over...

To a certain kind of car enthusiast, there are three things will appeal on this weeks trader dreamer. It’s a bargain barge, i...

This weeks trader dreamer is more of a ‘try and find another one’ than anything else. A browse through ebay saw me happen across...

Drifting. I find it hard to see how some petrolheads dislike this sport, it is after all very highly tuned vehicles destroying t...

If you follow any source of motor news then you’ll probably have seen a review of the new BMW 6 series Gran Coupe. Regardless of the fact ...

The Lada Riva, or AvtoVAZ 2107 finished production three weeks ago, and for a car which is so well known, not just among car people, but a...

It would seem Bentley has done a good job with their new Continental V8, reviews are positive and most reports suggest it’s a better choic...

Brown. It’s a pretty seventies colour. The 70’s are good, nylon shirts, big colours, disco music; it’s surprising to me that more aspects...

Who doesn’t like toys to play with? Maybe I’m just childish, but there’s something appealing about having a large amount of technology to pl...

So you’ve probably all heard about this Geneva thing that happened earlier this month. My ability to comment is somewhat limited by the fa...

Of course, I can very well understand why you want to by an SL, for some top down boulevard cruising, there’s little better. However this ...

It’s pretty strange that I’ve yet to feature a Mercedes on this site, it’s a brand I’m very fond of. There’s something about that three-...

You may have read my ‘ Dream Barn ’, on the excellent Petrolblog . Whether you did or not, one of my choices was the Audi RS4, and I claim...

If you cast your mind back to the last UK elections you’ll remember this phrase being chucked about a lot. I can’t remember who exactly said...

YouTube is a wonderful thing, aside from millions of hours of utterly pointless drivel and many more comments of the same ilk, there’s see...