After our features on How To Buy A Car For Under £10k That Will Make You Money, How To Buy A Car At Auction, and How To Choose A Future Classic Car we thought that it was time to share some insider secrets on how to add value. It’s all very well choosing the right [...]

So, you want to be a motoring journalist, do you? Drawn, no doubt, by the lure of a fast buck, lavish foreign launch events, and access to more new cars than you could possibly drive in one lifetime. Ignoring the fact that the life of a motoring journo just isn’t like that, where on earth [...]

Following on from the How To Choose A Future Classic Car feature, here are eight cars that are absolutely, totally, one-hundred-percent guaranteed to make you money in the long-term*. Some of them are unbelievably beautiful, some are ground-breakingly innovative, and some are supremely satisfying to drive; and a few, such as the Citroen DS, are [...]

The SEAT Leon isn’t a great looking car. Sure, it’s inoffensive enough. Nothing there to scare the kids, but I bet that you’ve never looked at one with lustful eyes, have you? I was the same; I clocked the bulbous front end and bland backside and wrote it off as yet another forgettable hatchback. Which [...]

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 [...]

The ASX is Mitsubishi’s answer to the Nissan Qashqai, the urban crossover that has taken the Guardian-reading classes – who like the idea of a four-wheel-drive vehicle but don’t actually need one – by storm. Essentially an estate car on steroids, it gets the obligatory raised suspension, Evoque-esque looks, and a high driving position to [...]

It isn’t an exaggeration to say that the Skoda Yeti has taken the motoring world by storm. There hasn’t been a car as versatile, so adaptable, and so damned easy to live with since the launch of the original Range Rover back in 1970. I last drove the Yeti in 2011, when it was pitched [...]

When Tom, my seven-year-old son, heard the audio recording of my two fast laps in a Metro 6R4 Group B rally car his face creased into a wide grin: “cool”, he said, “can you put it on a CD for me please?” It is, I have to admit, an impressive noise. But then everything about [...]

Peugeot’s 5008 seven-seat compact MPV has the reputation as the enthusiast’s choice for those who need a family über-wagon, with the motoring press being especially fulsome about it’s chassis and fine handling – so we borrowed one for a week to see what all the fuss is about. The Peugeot 5008 looks much smaller than [...]

Conventional wisdom has it that electric vehicles are impractical, their limited range precluding their use as a ‘proper’ family car. This is, it has to be said, an argument that is hard to refute. The Renault Fluence Z.E. that I drove recently is a terrific family car within its own (somewhat limited) environment – but [...]