Car review: Frontline Developments’ MG Abingdon Edition is a very fast blast from the past To be perfectly honest, when I was driving this car, I hadn’t realised quite how much it costs. Probably for the best, because had I known it was nearly £96,000 I might not have enjoyed chucking it around the Oxfordshire countryside quite so readily. And since this stands as one of my drives of the [...]
Car review: The new Bentley Flying Spur V8 is a comfortable 2.4 tonne beast I can think of worse ways to be stuck in traffic than sitting inside a Bentley, especially if you’re not driving it yourself. This is particularly true of the new four-door Flying Spur V8, which has emerged from the shadow of the two-door Continental GT range, and now stands as its own separate model line. [...]
Car review: Ferrari’s California T model – now with cutting-edge Formula One technology If you listen to the “purists”, the Ferrari California is a bit of a wet blanket. For some reason this 490 horsepower V8 hairdryer never quite set the experts alight. Too soft, they crowed, and – possibly – too ugly. Ferrari was never going to stand for that, so now there’s a new version [...]
Review: The astonishing new Tesla Model S July 8, 2014 Some have already judged the first bespoke effort from cutting-edge American electric carmaker Tesla as the second coming of the automobile. But can the Tesla Model S possibly justify the hype? It’s certainly a lot of pressure to heap on a premium executive saloon. Yet Tesla chief executive Elon Musk appears to be one of [...]
