From the category archives:

Car

Hard Drivin’

January 18, 2010

The past couple of years have seen the rise of a strange branch of motorsports, an uneasy alliance between the ‘Xtreme’ generation of sports sponsors and the motoring world that’s resulted in a new event in the X-Games and chaps like Ken Block (I still have a Blockhead cap somewhere, cheers Dennis!) earning the respect [...]

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Another reason to love Top Gear

November 26, 2008

Top Gear is, hands down, my favourite show on TV. You can argue all you want about whether it’s really still a show about three blokes who love cars any more and if it’s “jumped the shark” (I hate that term), but I still love it.
This season so far has been great, and I’ve nearly [...]

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Roadtrip 2008

October 5, 2008

8 countries, 8 cars (including an M6 and a Z4 Alpina), and 1,750 miles. Fletch will eventually lend his literary skills to writing something about it, but in the meantime here’s some photos:

You’ll be glad to know that the M5 didn’t skip a beat (even when Chris was driving…), apart from serious brake fade coming [...]

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Outclassed

May 19, 2008

I walked out of football before to see these two parked either side of my car:

Looks like they were trying to make a point, especially with that 911’s parking.

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Lausanne 07

November 6, 2007

Update: See Fletch’s write up over here!
On the face of it, 1600 miles of driving in three days across various parts of Europe (France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and Italy) might seem a bit crazy. But when you do it in some of Bayeriche’s finest (an E39 M5, a Z3 M Coupe, a Z4 and [...]

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False start

August 14, 2007

After two years of talking about it I finally went out and bought an E39 BMW M5, which I picked up last Friday from a BMW dealership in Maidstone. It’s a 2002 with 55k 56k miles in Lakeside Blue, black nappa leather interior, satnav, and a bunch of other extras. I’ve spent all [...]

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