Hasegawa has long been the oddball of Japanese model kits. They make random kits that you never thought about until you looked for something a little different. Very much kits for Japanese Domestic Market (JDM) fans. On the top they looked good but underneath they always lacked details. Launched inRead More →
Electrification is the big “buzz” word right now with more and more manufactures turning to fully electric cars. Honda is one such group hoping to capitalise on this with a 6 model roll-out by 2022. Honda’s first arrival is the much talked about Honda e. A small city 5 doorRead More →
Some time ago I wrote about my dislike of the VW Beetle. https://drivenit.co.uk/the-vw-beetle/ The classic one. Not the blobby Golf-based one with the engine in the wrong place. I wasn’t kind to the little car but I did say that one day I would get one. So I did. VeryRead More →
We didn’t get off to a good start with the Audi Q2. For your £37,095, there isn’t a lot of car for the money. In fact, it comes with not much kit at all. Yes, there is cruise control and aircon but it’s not climate controlled though that’s no lossRead More →
An irrelevant look at a certain car. If someone said “Nissan Micra” to you, you’d visualise a queue of traffic. At the front would be a little Micra either being driven by a learner or pensioner. In this third guise, Nissan stuck to its guns and refused to invest inRead More →
An irrelevant look at a certain car. Fiat have always been good at making small cars. Big cars, not so much so. Think of a large successful Fiat and you won’t. Think small and you have plenty to choose from. Fiats smallest offering was the 126. This wasn’t really toRead More →
And trust you could because over the few years we had Jalopy on the shelves, you were guaranteed of true owner reviews often with hilarious anecdotes or frustrations in their motoring misery. Apart from writing columns for the Citroën Car Club and Club Peugeot UK, I once wrote 2 piecesRead More →
Welcome to Knight Rider. Here is something I’ve been pondering for a number of years. Knight Rider, the ultimate TV show about a talking car and one man making a difference with the backing of the Knight Industries and its legal team, FLAG (Foundation for Law and Government). As aRead More →
While December is a time for frantic shopping, making space in the freezer for a turkey and singing about Rudolf the red nosed reindeer, to me there is a day when I think about another Rudolf who just so happened to be one of the greatest engineer and car designersRead More →
I had some fun thinking about this article. Motoring writer and author, Richard Gooding posted up on Twitter, pictures from his visit to the Hornby toy museum in Kent. This got me thinking about the toy cars that I longed to own as the real thing. Namely those from CorgiRead More →
