We’ve just come to the end of the first full year of Motoring Journo, and I’d like to thank each and every one of the 11,366 people who came to say ‘hello’. The most popular nationality of my readers was the United Kingdom, closely followed by the United States of America. Next was Canada, Australia, and then Germany. In total, 126 nationalities were represented, although honesty compels me to point…

Last year comprised a series of exclamation marks that punctured an otherwise uneventful twelve months. In times of recession industry hunkers down to protect what it has, and in a double-dip recession the temptation becomes even stronger; financial meltdown is an ever-present threat for the meek and bold alike with mass-market manufacturers feeling the pinch especially keenly; the squeezed middle is a very unhealthy place to be at the moment and…

My attention span has never been too good. At school I got bored very easily, which led to me barely scrape a pass in my O-levels (O-levels were like GCSEs but much harder because they weren’t awarded automatically) because I spent my time arsing about, a pastime that culminated in making an improvised explosive device that destroyed a desk and what little sanity my physics teacher had managed to preserve…

The Bloodhound SSC programme has only one aim: to set a new world Land Speed Record of 1,000mph. Run by Sir Richard Noble, who held the LSR himself from 1983 to 1997, Bloodhound will be designed and built by 2014 at the latest, giving the driver, Andy Green, the chance to reach Mach 1.4 on land, the first time that anyone will have done so. Bloodhound will be run on…