Author name: Hugo Becker

BMW was floundering – in danger of being absorbed by one or another of Germany’s larger carmakers in the late 1950s. They had a small car, the 700 and larger cars, the 500 series Baroque Angel, but nothing in the middle. And subsequently the end of BMW was in the offing if it wasn’t for […]

I had a bit of a brain hiccup recently that prompted me to think of cars I’ve driven that disappointed me and immediately thought of three cars. These are not necessarily cars I loathe, rather these were automotive disappointments, the act of driving them didn’t match the expectation. And rather than leave this with just

Watching the McMurtry Spéirling’s run at Goodwood is a real treat, here’s an electric car, producing sounds reminiscent of Formula 1’s V10 glory days, screaming up the course, making everything else look painfully slow in comparison. It is fun to watch, over and over again – especially one of the Marshall’s reaction as the car

The aged amateur racers were all in their places, coffee at hand, and mostly wide awake. The question was posed, “when will we see the first serious professional race driver that has not learned to drive a car with a manual transmission”. Once the guffaws and harrumphs settled, the conclusion was that it won’t be