RSAC Scottish Rally, Saturday 27th June Round 5 (of 8) Hankook Scottish Rally Championship Dry and Dusty in Dumfries Well, they did it again, Mike Faulkner and Peter Foy became the first crew this year to win two rounds of the Hankook Scottish Rally Championship. With four different winners […] Read more »
Car: Land Rover Defender 110
Land Rover Defender 110 Station Wagon Brick-Like And Bruising, But I Love It! I’ve got a theory. Go to any agricultural sale or auction and you can spot a Land Rover Defender driver at 50 paces. He walks with a list – to the left. And no, it’s not the […] Read more »
Rally News: 18 June, 2009
Greenerways Rally OK, so Mark Higgins won last Sunday’s Greenerways Rally in Kielder (14th June), but that’s to miss the point. The event was actually staged to provide some feedback and statistics on Pirelli’s new Eco Tyres. With Forestry roads getting chewed up worser and worser each year, and the […] Read more »
Rally News: 14 June, 2009
Threat to McRae Rally? Well, maybe not. But 16 of Perth & Kinross District Council’s Traffic Wardens are being kitted out with headcams. The video equipment, costing £25,000, will be used to record confrontations in which parking attendants are assaulted or subjected to abusive behaviour and will provide what the […] Read more »
Car: Volkswagen Golf 2.0 TDI 110 SE
Volkswagen Golf 2.0 TDI 110 SE Frugal Yet Fun Family Saloon I’m old enough to remember the original lightweight, skinny-wheeled, nimble handling Golf. It was first introduced in 1974 which makes it 25 years old this year, but it was the introduction of the GTI, 2 years later that really […] Read more »
Rally Report: Bogie’s Berwickshire Benefit
Jim Clark Reivers Rally, Sunday 24th May Round 4 (of 8) Hankook Scottish Rally Championship Bogie’s Berwickshire Benefit David Bogie and Kevin Rae scored their first victory in this year’s Hankook Scottish Championship when they won the Jim Clark Reivers Rally, and in doing so became the fourth different […] Read more »
Car: Ford Fiesta 1.6
Ford Fiesta Titanium 1.6 Full of Fun at Half the Price At around 14 grand, the 1.6 Ford Fiesta is almost half the price of a 300 bhp Ford Focus RS at nearly 26 grand. On that basis you could be forgiven for thinking that the Fiesta should be only […] Read more »
Car: Audi R8
Audi R8 Can’t Live With It – Don’t Want To Live Without It! Babe magnet? Yup, it shore is. Which surprised me, I thought Audi’s R8 was rather understated in the styling department. Considering it’s cousin comes from Italy and has more syllables in its name than an Italian menu […] Read more »
Report: Nice Guys Do Win
Station Garage Mitsubishi Granite City Rally, Saturday 25th April Round 3 (of 8) Hankook Scottish Rally Championship Nice Guys Do Win What a belter of a rally. The third round of this year’s Hankook Scottish Rally Championship provided yet another butt-clenching finish. Going into the final stage of the […] Read more »
Car: Ford Focus RS
Ford Focus RS Lighting the (Ford) Blue Touch Paper The Ford Focus Firework You know that sense of anticipation you get when you go along to the local beauty parlour for your first Brazilian? It probably seemed like a good idea just the other night in the pub standing […] Read more »