…The wait is over
We hope you enjoyed our Christmas and New Year holiday quiz and had a go at the questions but if they have driven you crazy here’re the answers –
Future Classics: 12 Smart Roadster
For the final car to feature in his year-long series covering ‘collectable’ models introduced during the three decades since the Western Group of Motoring Writers was formed, Kim Henson takes a close look at another modern classic, the diminutive but sporty 21st century smart Roadster –
Engineers on top
If you want to change the world, be an engineer, explains Tony Lewis –
Testing Times…
We couldn’t let the long Christmas and New Year holiday pass without giving you something to think about, so John Kerswill has come up with this quiz and the answers will be revealed on 6 January –
Future Classics: 11 Suzuki Vitara (1st Generation)
For his penultimate pick of the future classics, Kim Henson highlights a model which took on that cult status almost from first turning a wheel on or off road –
Wonders of the Western Group World: Earning your spurs
There are some mystery junctions along the M5 indicating the most delayed motorway link project in Britain, as Dave Moss explains –
Wonders of the Western Group World: 3 Runways end at Plymouth?
Amongst the many sad tales of trials and tribulations in aviation history, the story of Plymouth City airport’s still-recent demise is particularly poignant, says Dave Moss –
Mini’s large part in our – and my – history
Sandpaper and varnish were part of Tony Lewis’s life with the original Mini and nearly stumped his cricket aspirations –
Future Classics: 10 Lancia Delta HF Integrale
At the 1979 Frankfurt Motor Show the attractive yet unobtrusive Giugiaro-styled Lancia Delta hatchback made its debut and was widely thought to be a competent family car, but the newcomer also had great potential for being uprated, as Kim Henson points out –
Audi not best car in the world shocker
If I had a pound for every time someone wanted to know what my ‘best car in the world’ was after discovering my occupation I’d, well, I wouldn’t need to write about cars for a living, says an impoverished Iain Dooley –
When driving courtesy goes out of the window
The most alarming aspect of today’s motoring habits are bad manners and inconsiderate selfishness by drivers to other road users, moans David Miles –
Stretching out in a Caddy
There is life after the announced death of the VW Camper as Glen Smale set out to prove at the aptly named Goodwood Revival –
Future Classics: MG Z Series from 2001
Cardiff, the Brecon Beacons and Pembrey race track were used to put the hottest new MG models through their paces in July 2001, recalls Kim Henson –
Wonders of the Western Group World: 2 Have the region’s choppers really been grounded?
In this radical alternative travelogue to thewesterngroup area, an eclectic collection of stories is pulled together by group historian Dave Moss to entertain and inform you over future months, so we hope you enjoy this new series you will not want to miss –
Das Auto, that’s history
Volkswagen caused a bit of a stir recently with the announcement that production of the famous ´Camper Van´was to end, but those two words carry a lot of history, as WGMW founder and VW Motoring creator Robin Wager reminds us –
Ripping yarns from the USA
John Kerswill really got stuck into his first US experience and survived to tell the tale –
New Alfa Romeo Junior at the NEC Classic Motor Show.
1999 Nissan Skyline GT-R sells at the Iconic Auctioneers NEC Classic Motor Show sale.
1994 Renault Clio Williams sells at the Iconic Auctioneers Classic Motor Show.
1979 Volkswagen Mk1 Golf GTi at the Iconic Auctioneers NEC Classic Motor Show auction