At the time of writing this, Automoblog’s esteemed Managing Editor, Carl Anthony, was in the air taking in the latest car...
Letter From the U.K.
Get an inside look into the auto industry in the UK from our resident Brit, Geoff Maxted, in this fortnightly series. How does their car culture differ?
Ever since Great Britain voted to leave the European Union last June, the country has been riven with dissent as...
History tells us that men behave wisely only after they have exhausted all other avenues. For the most part then, the global everyman would wish in one way or another that his life was other than it is. Get up. Go to work. Come home. Eat. Sleep. Repeat. We endure...
Such stuff as dreams are made on . . . Not my words alas, but rather those of a popular...
Title Quote: 1977, God Save The Queen / Sex Pistols. Prospects are as bleak now for young people as they...
Hey Teacher! Leave Them Kids Alone! A British survey recently revealed that a large majority of young people in the UK feel stereotyped by others when they drive. Half of these drivers also feel they are stereotyped by society because of the clothes they wear and the music they listen...
Where would we be without technology? Well, more sane, probably, and not driven to distraction by incoming information from all...
Geoff Maxted warns that you won’t see him coming . . . As an automotive writer I take my driving...
Two things have moved me to write this. One is that we have reached the time of year when I go to bed in the dark and get up in the dark. The other is that we are being told that Europeans are deciding not to buy British made cars...
Sometimes a person has to look for answers outside of the regular routine of life. In cases like this I...
Most weeks I am privileged to drive a different car, courtesy of an automaker, for the purposes of road testing...
Geoff Maxted remembers a time when life was slower and cars had a family purpose . . . Here on these blighted British islands, now politically cut adrift from our European neighbors like a disobedient, disowned dog, those who have reached a certain age will remember, with fondness, what has...
By the time you read this I will be driving a Subaru BRZ. Essentially, I will be saying goodbye to...
First, there was McDonald’s and everything changed. Taste and style may differ regionally or nationally in the language of side...
In all my long days as an automotive writer, not one single car manufacturer has asked me to attend their display at an international motor show, and drape myself alluringly across the hood of one of their vehicles. Sex Sells When people (in truth, men) discovered sex sells, car makers...
A long time ago, back in the distant days of the 20th century, a blimpish, patriarchal politician called Sir Edward...
You will appreciate this because, not so long ago, a disaster occurred that swept the automotive world like a global...
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