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 […]
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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 […]
Woodward
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
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
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’
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 […]
