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Peter Robinson

Brian Caldersmith · Jul 4, 2022 ·

Motoring Interests & Career A 54-year career as a full-time motoring journalist included 16 years as Editor of Wheels magazine, plus 16 years spent living in Italy working as European […]

Star Crossed

Peter Robinson · Aug 29, 2023 ·

by Peter Robinson Marina Maumann guides the W211 Mercedes E-Class down the steeply twisting Camps Bay Drive, just south of Cape Town, South Africa. It’s 26 January 2005, and Marina […]

Chuck Jordan: the Chrome Cobra

Peter Robinson · Jul 25, 2023 ·

by Peter Robinson One lunch time in August 1956 Chuck Jordan, an inquisitive, 28-year-old General Motors’ stylist, decided to see what Chrysler was planning for its 1957 models. Jordan drove […]

Nardo: driving the perfect circle

Peter Robinson · Apr 15, 2023 ·

by Peter Robinson Pista di prova di Nardò della Fiat – say it out loud – resonances rather more romantically than the translation to Fiat’s Nardo Test Track. Seduced by […]

Volkswagen Phaeton: the best engineered failure in motoring history

Peter Robinson · Mar 28, 2023 ·

by Peter Robinson Volkswagen – the People’s Car – remained true to this humble philosophy throughout its existence. At least until 1997 and the arrival of a series of W12 […]

Escort disaster

Peter Robinson · Mar 6, 2023 ·

by Peter Robinson Ours was not the most jovial table in the dining room of the Geneva airport’s Movenpick Hotel that Saturday evening in August 1990. We dithered over the […]

Woodward

Peter Robinson · Feb 24, 2023 ·

by Peter Robinson Woodward Avenue is gridlocked. Deliberately. Traffic in the four north-bound lanes is stationary, held in check behind a black Chevrolet Suburban and Hummer H2. Now, with the […]

Porsche 928

Peter Robinson · Jan 11, 2023 ·

by Peter Robinson Even now, 27-years after the 928’s death, Zuffenhausen doesn’t like to be reminded that its front engine V8 started life as a replacement for the 911. The […]

Ferrari F50

Peter Robinson · Jan 1, 2023 ·

by Peter Robinson In the beginning, appropriately, it was Piero Ferrari’s idea. Enzo’s second son believed any successor to the mighty F40 should be no less than an F1 car […]

‘Hacks and PR people’

Peter Robinson · Dec 5, 2022 ·

By Peter Robinson “Journalists are the enemy….do not talk to motoring writers.”   The instruction, from the communications department of a famous German car maker, was delivered verbally to its astonished […]

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