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 →
Any car lover hates this time of year, especially those with old classics or cars known for being a tad “delicate” in winter. For me, I am talking about my Fiat X1/9. This year, the summer was cruel. My X1/9 had spent most of it in the body shop havingRead More →
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly presents to you the Ford Ka 1996 – 2008 If ever there was a small car that outstayed its welcome, it was the Ford Ka. OK, so I might have been a bit mean to Ford’s city hopeful because when launched, it reallyRead More →
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. An irrelevant look at a certain car. Ford Fusion. 2002 – 2012 Here is a car that might have slipped you by. Indeed, you might even have one drive past you later and to be honest, you probably wouldn’t even notice it. ButRead More →
The Good, The bad and the Ugly. An irrelevant look at a certain car. The Renault Clio 2. The 1998 – 2005 Clio in almost all of it guises was a sensational little car. Even now, some 20 years later, they are still fun to drive. Nicole and her PapaRead More →
The Good, The bad and the Ugly. An irrelevant look at a certain car. The Peugeot 307 2001 – 2008 I’m a big fan of Peugeots. I’ve owned 5. I’d own another because I have no problem with owning a French car. I won’t however own a Peugeot ending withRead More →
Volvo 66GL Elastic Fantastic What a strange little creature the Volvo 66 is. It’s not really a Volvo at all. Underneath its square styling lives the Daf 66 and deeper into that is the Daf 55. Daf’s car division was taken over by Volvo in 1975 and almost immediately theyRead More →
Writing about cars and testing various marques might sound glamorous but beneath the glitz of a new car is the darker world of the second hand car market. Sometimes 7 hands. Sometimes even more. Working in the motor trade, from time to time you get offered some real gems.Read More →
