If you own a car it can’t have escaped your notice that the car is regarded as one of the worst forms of transport in terms of its environmental impact – perhaps not as bad as planes, but nevertheless a significant contributor to global warming. Many would say that the answer is to persuade people to leave their cars at home and use another form of transport. Twenty-five percent of all car journeys are less Read more…

You have to feel sorry for Nico Rosberg. A while ago he signed up to drive for the new Mercedes (nee Brawn) Grand Prix team, expecting to be racing alongside the new world champion Jenson Button. Then Button decided that he was going to McLaren instead to partner Lewis Hamilton and the rumours were that Nick Heidfeld would get the second Mercedes seat. Rosberg must have felt quite pleased. There he was, driving for the Read more…

Please God, don’t let this be true. A West Midlands motor racing fan has named his baby boy after new Formula One world champion Jenson Button and former world champion Lewis Hamilton. Trevor Sutton and partner Mandy Smith, from Wyken in Coventry, decided this would be a great way to celebrate the achievements of the two British drivers. Sutton has been a motorsport fan for 25 years and attended his first Formula One British Grand Read more…

If anyone were to ask me about the various cars I’d owned or driven in my life and which, if any of them, stood out in my memory, there is one which immediately springs to mind. It is a 1996 2.5-litre BMW 323 automatic convertible, which my partner and I bought to drive through France to Monaco for the Grand Prix a few years ago. There are a number of reasons why this car holds Read more…

There are few industries more complex than the car rental industry. If you are to engage with it, you need to prepare – meet them at their level, look them in the eye, make them wonder what to make of your cocked eyebrow – bemusement? Indignation? Fury? At every chance you must maintain the facade of total, inscrutable mystery and you must always, always have an ace in the hole. It begins with enigmatic paperwork. Read more…