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Paris motor show 2012 review by Gavin Green

Gavin Green, 28 September 2012 00:31

That glorious British summer – of gold medals and diamond jubilees and Paralympic glory, of Wiggo and Mo and Hoy’s joy – is not over. It has moved to Paris where instead of meaty athletes and brave Paralympians, we find a new Range Rover and - finally! - an F-type Jaguar to steal the French and German car industries' glory. ...

Gavin Green rides the £23k Bf1systems Factor 001

3.5

Gavin Green, 18 February 2011 09:10

Little surprise that the people behind the world’s most expensive bicycle – £23,400 – are F1 people. Formula One costs are as stratospheric as the technology. In F1, £23K barely buys you a wheel nut. Little wonder, also, that the key components of the Factor 001 are electronics and carbonfibre, the prime qualities of any self-respecting GP winning car. The ...

Gavin Green on the Porsche 911 he got for Christmas

Gavin Green, 06 January 2010 10:07

What did you get for Christmas? I got a Porsche 911. To be fair, it was ‘only’ for two weeks, and it was ‘only’ the basic Carrera. No fancy big rear wing, or turbo, or cabriolet, or paddle shift, or four-wheel drive. And that’s just fine. With 911s, basic is always best I have been driving, eulogising (and sometimes racing) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...