• My 70-year-old V8 Chevy 350 is easier to live with than a Ford Focus

    My 70-year-old V8 Chevy 350 is easier to live with than a Ford Focus
    This heavily modified supercharged Small-block also proves patience is a virtueElliot Florio has been waiting rather a long time to own a supercharged, two-door '55 Chevy 350 sedan.
    "I'd been looking for one for what felt like forever," he says. "Since I was 19, in fact. Finally, I bought this one a few weeks ago from a guy in the owners' club. I'd waited months for him to offer it for sale. He'd had work done to it, and it finally came my way."
    An hour or so before we met, I'd followed the
  • Why 2026's best electric car is the easygoing Skoda Elroq

    Why 2026's best electric car is the easygoing Skoda Elroq
    Simple, reasonably priced and perfect for everyday life, the Elroq is a starRemember when new electric cars were all huge, had a motor each end and bristled with more complexity than you could shake a stick at?
    Well, the Skoda Elroq, our favourite electric car on today's market, is emphatically not that and is all the better for it.
    Of course, the version we've chosen does have the bigger '85' battery and the meatiest, albeit single, 282bhp motor to drive its rear wheels, which pushes the price
  • Why motorsport is more than marketing for Ford Racing

    Why motorsport is more than marketing for Ford Racing
    It’s not just the fact that a mainstream brand is competing in 35 global series that makes this division so remarkableFord has been racing since before it officially existed, but when CEO Jim Farley says "motorsport has never been more important to the firm", it's not hyperbole.
    And it's not just Farley's infectious enthusiasm about racing that makes this clear: it's that, while we're talking in a plush, soundproofed motorhome, he has to raise his voice to be heard above the roar of a 5.0-