Toy cars are a passion for the petrolhead. If you can’t afford the real thing, chances are you can buy it as a toy car. And then you don’t need to stop at just one. You can buy your whole dream garage that you can play with in theRead More →
Do you remember those halcyon days in the car world where something as simple as the VW Beetle or Citroën 2CV had a following like no other car on the road? A car so cheap, its owners enjoyed carefree motoring that was the envy of anyone who sat behind theRead More →
Ford Connect Grand Tourneo Active. It’s all in the dimensions. The new people carrier on the street is from Ford. It’s the Connect that is built alongside Volkswagen’s new Caddy. Nothing wrong with this kind of platform sharing, though it does leave a new owner of such a vehicle withRead More →
Or “TV Crime Busters” as Corgi would rather they be known as. The ’80s was a time to be alive as a child. We had nothing to worry about apart from impending doom from atomic bomb annihilation. We all watched “Threads” in 1984 and “When The Wind Blows” in 1986.Read More →
Shown here with kind permission from Auto Italia. https://auto-italia.co.uk X1/9 ownership isn’t as difficult as you may be lead to believe but there are a few things you need to bear in mind. Firstly don’t own one if you are an introvert. These are eye candy of the road and passersbyRead More →
Toyota’s little MK1 Yaris. Mobility problems answered in a reliable hatchback.Read More →
The Good, The bad and the Ugly. An irrelevant look at an ageing car. The Toyota Yaris, the Greek goddesses of charm and beauty. Well not quite. According to Wikipedia, “Yaris” is derived from “Charis”, the singular for Charites. And this, thankfully is as complicated as Toyota’s little toaster on wheels gets.Read More →
The History Picture the scene, a spring day in Italy, 1980. Fiat has just launched its new practical Panda. A Seat badged model joined quickly and sold in the few countries that were offering Fiat’s Mediterranean Seat brand. There followed a bitter divorce between Fiat and Seat in 86Read More →
I have a friend’s VW camper van coming to me this week. It requires new brakes and will probably need them all around. The problem is the brakes are stuck on. Having had a look when she went to buy it, I’ve diagnosed a seized brake master cylinder. ThisRead More →
Going So Well The X1/9 was doing so well. Having come off the ramp after a bit of winter fettling around the headlight bowls, a well-known rust trap, it was seen that the X1/9 would get a lot more use especially as the X1/9, as a car, turned 50 inRead More →
