Author Archives for Tim Pitt

He can’t afford a Rolls or a Bentley, he has to buy a second-hand Ford,” sang Ray Davies of The [...]

Zero-point-six-two miles per hour. That slender margin – half the speed of a spider scuttling across your bathroom floor – [...]

What would Jesus drive? It’s a question you see posed by bumper stickers across America. The answer, of course, is [...]

Jaguar’s Special Vehicle Operations division hasn’t been backwards about coming forwards. Its opening salvo was the 2016 F-Type SVR, a [...]

Forgive me, officer, for I have sinned. If absolute power corrupts absolutely, then 725 metric horsepower tests even the sternest [...]

My first car was a Mini. If you’re fast-approaching middle age, yours probably was too. I bought my (t)rusty 1983 [...]

The hot hatch has reached boiling point. Very soon, Mercedes will reveal a new AMG A45, with the most powerful [...]

Ferraris are works of automotive art, says conventional wisdom; modifying one is like daubing Dulux on the Sistine Chapel. Not [...]

Pity the poor Mercedes-Benz salesperson. The world’s oldest car company lists no fewer than 33 separate models on its UK [...]

Choosing the best car I drove in 2018 wasn’t easy. It was mid-December – the season when every journalist is [...]

Admit it: you’ve made your mind up about the Cullinan already. I know I had. Rolls-Royce’s first SUV has proved [...]

After 1989, sports cars would never be the same. That year, the Mazda MX-5 reinvented the roadster – with added [...]

Can you improve on perfection? In the case of the Jaguar E-Type, it seems so. Thankfully, that doesn’t mean giving [...]

Remember the furore when Porsche launched its go-faster SUV, the Cayenne, in 2003? Po-faced purists were appalled, yet car buyers [...]