• My ultra-efficient Leapmotor C10 has got me out of the slow lane

    My ultra-efficient Leapmotor C10 has got me out of the slow lane
    Must you drive like a saint to get heavenly economy? This range-extender says notThere I was, cruising along the inside lane of the M4 at my usual circa-65mph, congratulating myself on the energy I was saving, when another Leapmotor C10, metallic green just like mine, steamed past in the overtaking lane, briskly dispatching all the quicker traffic as it went.
    It made me wonder what I was doing. I have been driving electric cars and plug-in hybrids most of the time for the past four years or so a
  • Concours restorations? I prefer to save a banger on a budget

    Concours restorations? I prefer to save a banger on a budget
    Barn find rescues are big business on Youtube - is it time to have a go at your own classic resurrection?The YouTube pros make it look so easy. One of my favourite channels is Vice Grip Garage, wherein charming Minnesotan mechanic Derek Bieri ventures into the undergrowth to extract long-forgotten classic cars, remove the rat nests, replace the requisite fuel lines and tyre stems and nurse them several hundred miles back to his ranch - often several decades since they last turned a wheel in ange
  • National Motor Museum confusion proves we need plain speaking

    National Motor Museum confusion proves we need plain speaking
    Conflicting comms and corporate jargon can miss the point and confuse the people who really careI didn't realise the National Motor Museum and the Beaulieu Estate were anything other than the same thing, and that was fine. In fact, I imagine that was part of the idea when the estate-owning Montagu family established a museum trust in 1972 to be responsible for the car collection housed there.
    This week we've learned they're not one and the same. Beaulieu doesn't own the National Motor Museu
  • JCB Hydromax: inside the quest to set a 406mph hydrogen record

    JCB Hydromax: inside the quest to set a 406mph hydrogen record
    Andy Green's run to a hydrogen land speed record looked easy – but things weren't nearly that simpleThe Bonneville Salt Flats were named to recognise explorer Benjamin Bonneville. But to the special, wonderful breed of individuals drawn to this quiet corner of Utah to drive extreme vehicles as fast as they possibly can in a straight line, it’s simply known as The Salt.
    The definite article is used because The Salt isn’t simply the remnants of a long-dried up lake. It&
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