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ranked-largest-engine-made-every-major-car-company-0 Mercedes is close to top of the league, but surprisingly out 'cubed' by both Renault and Peugeot! I was surprised to find fellow French manufacturer Citroen, was plumb last...there are a few surprises in the list.

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I have calculated that I spend less than 0.5% of my time in front of my house.... and yet it seems that Google have managed to catch me on the last two passes of street view :eek: In 2021 I was cleaning my A8 with help from my Border Collie, then in 2023 as I returned from holiday and was...

What car would you consider the most comfortable on sale? What is the most comfortable car on sale? I have to admit the results of Autocar's appraisals surprised me!

Does £115M seem a little rich? https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/used-cars/most-expensive-cars-ever-sold

Out of idle curiosity, I wondered if the rankings in WhatCar would give us any information as to the German brands which dominate the best buys, or if it is all lies, dam lies and statistics? WhatCar group the cars into 17 types, from small cars, through most other things, right up to...

I know wiper blade are very boring and mundane right up until the time they come to your attention because they are not working perfectly. I want to never notice mine. They should be silent, judder free, smooth, smear free and give a perfect clean. I have had to change the blades on almost every...

Do you really need an electric screwdriver when a hundred year old one can do 200mph? https://www.magnetomagazine.com/worlds-first-200mph-screwdriver-discovered-in-sunbeam-restoration/ To my shame, a still own a six inch rule which held the lap record for a Formula Ford car at Silverstone for...

OK, so I now admit I have moved to the green (or is it blue?) side with a car with no tailpipe emissions, and indeed, no exhaust pipe. The little i3 appeals to me as it is still the only composite mass production car. I have been working with carbon race cars since the mid 80’s and I understand...

There does seem quite a leap between the coachmakers and harness makers banquet and the Le Mans 24 hour race. But the coach making industry moved through the centuries to become the automotive industry and British drivers and cars have had some real success in ‘the greatest race’. It is often...

An E Class made an appearance on my drive this week. It was only a rental car with my visiting sister from Australia. Her name is Shelagh, and honestly, I'm not making this up! But this wasn't the only relative newcomer on the drive this week. My son's brand new designed and build cargo bike...

This phrase was used to describe the fact that Elon Musk's SpaceX company's mammoth new rocket blew up shortly after take off today. The launch was described as a 'success':eek: This claim will now 'Trump' (I use the word advisably!) the use in the States of a "negative patient care outcome" to...

I’ve just sold the fourth vehicle in the last year in an attempt to reduce the fleet and motoring expenditure in retirement. I did try to buy those that I would enjoy, but not take a massive hit in the single most costly part of owning a car, deprecation. I know the Audi A8 is renowned for...

I have put this one up for sale to reduce the fleet size. EPC registration, EPIC car :cool: https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202302254629731

Yesterday, I waved goodbye to my wonderful Audi A8 and it has been replaced by a Porsche Macan. Porsche Norwich are 12 miles, but only two sets of traffic lights away from me and a sensible deal was struck on the last day of the month. I’ve resisted the current trend to come ohm in an EV...

Perhaps when you see things on a daily basis it's not easy to spot just how much the landscape chances. These are pictures of the same scene on my daily dog walk in spring, and now autumn. The mast on the skyline is one of the most important in East Anglia. Whilst the weddings in our village...

Having had a milestone birthday this week, I thought it was time to do a quick resume of what I have driven in the last 53 years. It turns out that about 2 million miles is the answer! It seems I have owned 40 different cars and had the long-term use of 31 company ones. I have clocked up just...

If I am going somewhere new, I find Google Street View is useful to pinpoint my exact destination prior to a journey. It saves people becoming inpatient in a queue behind a very slow moving car looking for door numbers or similar. I'm sure we have all looked up our own address and found you can...

Not so well publicised as the Festival of Speed or the Revival Meeting, but a much purer race meeting with less commercial underpinnings. I got a late invite to the Members Meeting at the weekend as I had race engineered the featured Jaguar XJR-15 one make race series 30 years ago. Goodwood put...

After almost 5 months, I drove out of the county yesterday on a 200 mile round trip. With only a few hundred local miles so far this year it was good to be back to a decent journey for someone who has been used to doing up to 30k miles a year. I did notice I was somewhat 'rusty'. Both my...