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Stephen Bayley's latest book on cars

4.5

Gavin Green, 14 October 2008 10:13

In the 35 years I’ve been reading motoring magazines, there’s been a whole bunch of writers whose words I’ve loved. From Mel Nichols’ colourful put-you-behind-the-wheel style (when I first read his Daytona drive story In CAR, as a kid in Australia, I was driving that big red Ferrari as much as Mel); to George Bishop’s witty woebegone tales of car ...

The new economic landscape. By Gavin Green

Gavin Green, 09 October 2008 08:00

Car sales collapse, your savings aren’t safe, 25 percent of all wild mammal species will soon be extinct, and of course the earth is now hotting up so fast that Sussex will soon be the new Sahara. And that was just yesterday’s news headlines. So let me give you some good news. The current crisis will be good news for ...

Air-con causes road rage, says Gavin Green

Gavin Green, 30 September 2008 09:26

As our cars become more like hermetically sealed containers, and less like social-minded carriages, so road rage and dreadful driving and tarmac terror increase. Air conditioning, I suspect, is partly to blame (and let’s face, most new cars today have it). With aircon, we wind up our windows, shutting out the world. We live in our own little segregated cocoons. ...

Why less isn't always more, by Gavin Green

Gavin Green, 22 September 2008 11:03

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the great German-American architect and designer, was famously known for his ‘less is more’ style. His minimalist philosophy works for me. But sometimes less is not better. Take a five-seat car redesigned to seat four (usually with irrational leap in price). The latest example is the Volkswagen Passat CC. The CC is a normal everyday ...

Do we really want premium cars, asks Gavin Green

4.5

Gavin Green, 12 September 2008 08:21

‘Premium’ car sales seem to be collapsing, or so the August UK sales figures suggest. Aston Martin down 26 percent year-to-date, Bentley down 17 percent, Lexus down 23 percent, Porsche down 26 percent. Buyers, it seems, are turning away from glitz, glamour and guzzling and turning to more sensible values (like cost of running) instead. Will this, I wonder, persuade ...

Why car journeys are much more than just A to B, by Gavin Green

Gavin Green, 28 August 2008 15:33

Cars are great but good car journeys are even better. Cars have given us unmatched mobility, broadening our minds as they broaden our horizons. After the Sumerian invention of the wheeled chariot, the maximum speed of land travel over long distances was just under 5mph. It remained that way for the next 5000 years. The law of covering distance in ...

Will supercars survive, asks Gavin Green

Gavin Green, 06 August 2008 10:39

With oil at $130 a barrel, petrol at £1.20 a litre, our roads traffic clogged, our police force ever more vigilant against ‘speeding’ and eco green taking over from Italian racing red as motoring’s colour of choice, whither the supercar? Well fear not, anxious reader. The supercar will be just fine. We’ve been here before. The ‘oil’ crisis of the ...

Brand is everything, by Gavin Green

4.5

Gavin Green, 31 July 2008 10:26

One of the daft upshots of our current marketing-fuelled obsession with ‘brands’ is that, to borrow a booze industry phrase, the name on the bottle is now frequently more important than the drink inside. With cars, this means we’ll queue to buy BMWs, Mercedes, Audis, Volkswagens etc, even though some of their offerings aren’t very good (X3, CLC, Q7, Polo) and ...

Help Gavin Green pick his next family car...

3.5

Gavin Green, 28 July 2008 10:04

After a Peugeot 107 for his son, Gavin Green is lining up a family car for himself. On the list? Everything from a BMW 5-series to a Citroen C4 Picasso… Car journalist seeks buying advice. Regular readers will know that I have just bought a Peugeot 107 as a runabout. But I’m a family man with wife, three growing sons ...

Why I bought a Peugeot 107. By Gavin Green

4.5

Gavin Green, 14 July 2008 11:04

I have just bought a new car. The priorities were: low insurance category (to enable 18-year-old son to use it), fun to drive, small and easy to park, good fuel consumption (low CO2 band also helps avoid punitive residents parking charges from the People’s Environmental Paradise of Richmond-upon-Thames). We were after a sub-Fiesta sized car: the so-called ‘city car’ category. ...

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