by Peter Robinson These were no ordinary family photograph albums. In the frescoed library of Contessa Camilla Maggi’s Calino home, among a stack of scrap books, you’d find a leather-bound, […]
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Henry Royce and the South of France
by Peter Robinson Observant motorists driving east along the Avenue de la Corniche, as it winds above the Mediterranean between Le Lavandou and St Tropez in the south of France, […]
My Friend Griff
by Peter Robinson Forty-nine years ago, upon becoming the editor of Wheels magazine, I discovered a pile of manuscripts written by Griffith Borgeson. The name was familiar, I dimly knew […]
First Born Lamborghini 350 GTV
by Peter Robinson October 29, 1963. Ferruccio Lamborghini has invited a handful of journalists to his unfinished factory in Sant’Agata Bolognese. For months rumours the Italian tractor manufacturer planned to […]
Star Crossed
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
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
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
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
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 […]