If ever there was one automotive brand that has re-invented itself successfully, it’s Skoda. Once the butt of jokes like: How do you double the price of a Skoda? Fill up the tank. Why do Skodas have heated rear windscreens? To keep your hands warm while you’re pushing it. And the classic: What do you call a Skoda with a sun roof? A skip. Now… the joke is on other car makers....
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Welcome, or should we say bienvenue to this très Gallic Peugeot special of ROAD Magazine. Peugeot’s current advertising slogan is ‘Motion & Emotion,’ which when you cut through the adman-speak hints at cars that are involving, ney, fun to drive, and live with. So, to test this mantra out, we’ve lined up a good chunk of the current range on offer from the French...
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We love dirty V8 NASCARs, anti-lag Group B monsters, flame-spitting 24Hr race cars, killer coupes and anything fast, ferocious and frivolous here at ROAD. But we’ve also got one eye on the future.. quite possibly free of Super and 110RON race fuel. So, to reflect on this prospect, welcome to an issue of eco, green, EV and 21st century cars – our future, like it or not! But this...
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We make no apologies for this Subaru special issue of ROAD Magazine this month, so if you’re not a fan of the incredible Pleiades-star cluster brand, you can still read Neil Cole’s column on the Monte Carlo rally and our report from the last month’s Autosport Show. ROAD are big fans of the reliable, durable, practical and above all, individual Japanese Subaru brand. In fact...
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ROAD’s December Christmas issue, “Motorsport Monsters”, features TV presenter, Neil Cole, who’s writing a new monthly motorsport column for us – “Cole Position”. Neil’s first column comes from the epic Race of Champions (RoC) in Dusseldorf and it’s fabulous! No doubt you recognise Neil as the presenter of World Rally Championship (WRC) on Sky TV channel...
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This month, ROAD magazine stretches from the icy tundra of Lapland – ice driving with four-times WRC Champion, Juha Kankkunen in supercars – to the humid Far East – VW Scirocco R-Cup racing in Shanghai – and then on to the dry deserts of Las Vegas – for the 2011 SEMA show. We’ve also got our first piece from www.greencardesign.com, on the uber-cool Fiat 500 Gucci. And we...
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This issue we finish the 2011 motorsport season in style: First up, we’ve got two times ex-WRC champion, Marcus Gronholm and north-east driver, David Binks, taking on British Rallycross Championships at Lydden Hill, Kent in the awesome ‘Best Buy’ Ford Fiesta Mk7. Gravel spitting stuff. Our sassy Road Magazine American correspondent, Ashley Van Dyke, follows a top team of Corvette drivers...
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Most of us born in or after the 1970s started our motoring life in front-wheel-drive cars. For many, the thrills, spills and grins of a car pulled, not pushed, are too strong to resist, and folk often stick with the cheeky inside rear wheel cocking FWD cars over RWD and 4WD for life. And why not? Sure, there are some who argue driving purism can only be achieved leaving the front wheels to steer...
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This month, Road is on Summer holiday, traveling from the far East to the Western coast of America. We’ve got two Stateside reports from Road first lady Ashley Van Dyke – covering the awesome X Games in downtown LA, and going to one of the world’s greatest car auctions at Orange County Fairgrounds, by Barrett Jackson. And from the far East, we’ve got two ice cool road tests...
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Road buddy, racer and Turbo Automagazin TV presenter, Tim Schrick asked us to line up some “crazy British cars” to film for his Sport 1 TV programme. The line-up takes some beating: Hayabusa Z Cars Mini, BAC Mono, a 1066bhp drag Mitsubishi Evo at Santa Pod and some serious track tools at Donington Park – Chevron GR8, Chevron B19, 982bhp Time Attack Evo, mint Motec Porsche 964 911...
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Welcome to the July issue of Road Magazine – where we are celebrating three of the best press cars we’ve test driven in recent months. Firstly, there’s the brand spanking new Lotus Evora V6 IPS – the first two-pedal automatic Lotus since 1986, opening the evocative and beautiful Evora to a truly global audience, particularly in America and Asia. Technology has moved on tremendously in the...
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There’s something very special about rear wheel drive cars. They offer a driving purity front and four wheel drive cars can’t. As FWD and 4WD cars struggle to cope with steering and drivetrain influences, a RWD car isn’t pulled from the front, it’s pushed from behind, leaving the front axle to do as nature intended, steer. And, if you know what you are doing, a RWD car offers the best...
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Welcome to the first 4×4, off (& on) road, green lane special of www.roadmagazine.co.uk – this month, binning the tempting track tarmac, or ace A-road asphalt, in favour of nice bit of green lane by-way action. If you’ve never ventured onto one of Europe’s amazing oldfashioned by-ways – open to ALL traffic, legally – then you need to sort that ASAP: It’s one of the best fun...
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The Japanese Special issue, Part One, which we ran in 2010 was so popular… it’s back! Welcome to Part Two, featuring: The full story on the return of “Godzilla” –Nissan’s iconic GT-R, revised for 2011, three years after its momentous launch onto the automotive scene. If ever there was a performance car for the C21st, this paradigm-shifting beast from the east is it. And now...
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Luxury and prestige is the name of the game this month. Road staff snapper, Neil Denham flies down to the French Riviera, to test drive a £90,000 Audi A8 4.2-litre V8, and luxuriate in a five-star hotel, owned by Bernie Ecclestone. Nice work, if you can get it! Ex-Roadie, Tim Hutton, gets to waft about in a VW Phaeton, with a W12 six-litre engine, and discovers it defines stealth luxury limo...
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Road Magazine starts 2011 with a track and race theme… following the UK’s catalyst to the motoring industry, Autosport International at the NEC in Brum. We’ve got two of the most exciting cars from the show in full detail…to drool over, and they are both British. The devilishly handsome and frighteningly fast Caterham-Lola SP/300.R and the latest offering from another Blighty...
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This issue features classic road trips to the Scottish glens in the new All-Wheel-Drive Impreza 2.0D RX, the brand new Mitsubish Lancer Juro tested in the Lincolnshire Wolds and an epic long distance haul to Cornwall, on one tank of fuel, in the phenomenal VW Golf BlueMotion. Does their lack of revs and audio stimulation make these fast and frugal diesels dull? ROAD investigates the talents of...
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Road takes a trip to sunny California, to warm up from the depths of Winter here… and enjoys the first ever, exciting, fast and furious Global Tuner GP Time Attack at Laguna Seca, organised and run by Road’s first lady, Ashley Van Dyke. Fabulous cars, close racing and loads of ‘lapping’ as they like to call it Stateside. We hope you enjoy the trip with us! Read it...
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Welcome to the first in a series of German car specials of ROAD. Whether it’s their Teutonic efficiency, phenomenal reliability or sheer engineering superiority over most marques, German cars stand out from the masses. And the three cars we have featured in this first German special of ROAD certainly do… First off there’s the gorgeous sleek lines and awesome performance of...
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ROAD is all on track this issue. We’ve got a test of the £175,000 Lamborghini Gallardo LP-570-4 Superleggera at Snetterton. There’s the incredible Ariel Atom V8 launch. And, in the more affordable ‘real world,’ there’s the Mk6 Golf GTi, at Castle Combe circuit. We also proudly announce our tie-in with the exciting Global Tuner GP event, in California, at Laguna...
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