I have a list. It’s called my ‘Things To Do Before I Die’ list. Morgan Freeman made such things more popular with The Bucket List, but I’ve had mine long before the movie.   You’ve probably got one too, even if only mentally. Mine has on it things like ‘Fly Aeros with The Red Arrows’, ‘Drive a Class One Offshore Powerboat ‘, ‘Date With Kelly Brook’ and ‘Fly in a Lancaster Bomber’,   In idle Read more…

I can vividly recall the last time I fell in love with a car. You know, not just that, “Wow, what a great car” feeling, but being really blown away by something that is just so complete that you know that if you owned one, you’d be constantly finding excuses to go for a drive. The kind of car that makes you laugh out loud, the experience is that good. That was way way back Read more…

In 1962 an Italian engineer named Giotto Bizzarrini (say it a few times, it sounds so good) developed a version of the highly-successful Ferrari 250 SWB car to compete at that year’s 24 hours of Le Mans race. It featured an aerodynamic (or so they thought at the time) extended roof line and a very angular, box-like rear end. Pretty it wasn’t and, unsurprisingly, it ended up being nick-named the ‘Breadvan’. Last week Ferrari launched Read more…

This year’s Formula One season kick-offs this month and all of the leading teams have now revealed their 2009 challengers and it’s perhaps time to consider who is likely to deliver the goods. Remember the last lap? Well it starts up again at the end of the month! The new regulations: It’s not just a question of the regular suspects carrying on where they left off last year either, as a whole raft of new Read more…

There are several advantages and disadvantages to hiring ‘high end’ cars for business or pleasure. In this blog, we’ll be talking about both. As a consumer there are many things to consider when hiring a ‘high end’ car; first, let’s look at the business end of hiring a car. By being in business, you need to be able to create the right impression with a client, and the car that you are driving will certainly Read more…