“If you build it they will come” may apply to baseball fields but autonomous cars are a different story. The...
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?
Sometimes a person has to look for answers outside of the regular routine of life. In cases like this I...
You will appreciate this because, not so long ago, a disaster occurred that swept the automotive world like a global tsunami. Volkswagen had been caught cheating. The news slowly seeped out as country after country declared war against them. German diesel tailpipe emissions were not as we had been led to...
A long time ago, back in the distant days of the 20th century, a blimpish, patriarchal politician called Sir Edward...
In all my long days as an automotive writer, not one single car manufacturer has asked me to attend their...
First, there was McDonald’s and everything changed. Taste and style may differ regionally or nationally in the language of side orders, but basically a bun is a bun and a cow is a cow. In short order, the world became smaller as global names walked the earth. Accountants rule; economies...
By the time you read this I will be driving a Subaru BRZ. Essentially, I will be saying goodbye to...
Geoff Maxted remembers a time when life was slower and cars had a family purpose . . . Here on...
Most weeks I am privileged to drive a different car, courtesy of an automaker, for the purposes of road testing and generally not doing a real job. A couple of weeks ago it happened to be an unexciting Citroen C4. It was one of those days when my beloved felt...
Two things have moved me to write this. One is that we have reached the time of year when I...
Geoff Maxted warns that you won’t see him coming . . . As an automotive writer I take my driving...
Where would we be without technology? Well, more sane, probably, and not driven to distraction by incoming information from all directions. More alive, possibly, because we haven’t walked onto the highway with our eyes on the ‘screen of all human life’ only to be flattened by a Mack Truck. Richer,...
Hey Teacher! Leave Them Kids Alone! A British survey recently revealed that a large majority of young people in the...
Title Quote: 1977, God Save The Queen / Sex Pistols. Prospects are as bleak now for young people as they...
Such stuff as dreams are made on . . . Not my words alas, but rather those of a popular writer called William Shakespeare. To be honest, I am not sure he was actually talking about cars as his prime peaked before the automobile, but I like to think he...
History tells us that men behave wisely only after they have exhausted all other avenues. For the most part then,...
Ever since Great Britain voted to leave the European Union last June, the country has been riven with dissent as...
At the time of writing this, Automoblog’s esteemed Managing Editor, Carl Anthony, was in the air taking in the latest car shows for our benefit. It’s a tough job but somebody has to do it. He has to travel great distances that we here in the comparatively tiny British Isles cannot...
Here in the United Kingdom, we have a great and venerable institution known as the Ordnance Survey. It is the...
Have you ever seen a plastic bag caught in swirling gusts of wind? It flies this way and that, never...
Fish. Some folk like to eat fish and some don’t. Those that do are often enthusiastic about their preference and in the UK, fish eaters mostly love the humble and inoffensive cod. Mild of flavor and flaky of texture, this once abundant fish has been a staple meal-to-go for the...
A very long time ago, the French tried to horn in on the North American continent but we, the British,...
Recently, I sustained a fall that has slowed me down a bit. To go from charging around like Road Runner...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the more companies talk about the quality of their customer service, the worse it gets. The bigger the organization the worse it gets, and so on. Beyond that is the absolute nadir of customer service that currently is a long established airline company...
Picture this: A small brown field mouse breaks cover and arrives at a junction of grass and hard surface. It...
Great Britain is very much a place of mixed fortunes; much like America I imagine. Some privileged people live in...
Imagine, if you will, a solitary man sitting slumped at the bar of a dark, depressing dive. Further along, an unshaven bar man stands despondently polishing a glass, wishing the guy would leave so he could close up early. Instead the man raises a finger and gestures for another shot....
A small green jewel of an island in the middle of the Irish Sea is home to one of the...
Is The Great British Car Industry Heading For The Rocks? A few weeks ago, the Conservative Government of the UK...
As we huddle pitifully in the wind and rain of our tiny Islands, we gaze enviously across the pond at the wondrous and varied car shows available, so it seems, on a daily basis, across all regions of the USA. To us, the likes of Wayne Carini and Chip Foose...
