Still the car we’re promising ourselves? It’s a grey and smoggy November in 1968 at the Halewood factory near Liverpool. Ford had begun production of the Capri two-door coupe, based on the dull Cortina. Across the pond in the United States, a young Ford designer Philip T. Clark was crafting sketches of a two-door fastback […]

“May we see your phones, please?” One of the two receptionists at Lamborghini’s Sant’Agata, Bolognese factory was polite but firm, “There is no photography inside the factory”. The group of journalists were given tiny stickers to cover the smartphone camera lens. The sight of a group of motor journalists trying to peel the cover off […]

Looking for financial freedom? It is worth watching Morgan Housel’s YouTube podcast interview with British entrepreneur Steven Bartlett. His single most important piece of advice is to save money. According to Housel, everyone needs at least one year’s net income stashed in the kitty for a rainy day. He’d certainly approve of the Dacia Duster […]

To the rivals out there hoping Kia would show some shred of decency and drop the design ball with the EV3 electric crossover SUV, I come with glum news. The EV3 has too many striking ingredients not to be a design knockout. Objectively, it ticks so many boxes of coolness that I searched high and […]

If you Google the name Qashqai, up pops a wilfully exotic description. Unless I’ve misspelt it, it means “a semi-nomadic Turkic-speaking people living in mountainous Central and Southwest Iran.” To you and me, it’s the family living over the road at number 37. The things are everywhere and a proper success story for Sunderland, UK, […]

China’s rapid development in construction, technology, and cars is relentless and destined to make life a lot tougher for global economies. China is leaving the Western world behind in business competitiveness despite its recent economic woes. Take the nation’s supply chain infrastructure. It’s more advanced than current European markets in scale and optimization by 10 […]