Giles Smith

The new Abba biography gets me thinking about the band’s role in an angry young man’s life

BMW is pretty clear about the customers it is hoping to tempt with its extraordinarily sleek and boldly nose-thumbing new 4×4, the X6.

Cars don’t come a lot more handsome than the new Brera from Alfa Romeo, which, with good reason, fancies itself as something of a George Clooney among automobiles — nonchalantly…

In an ideal world, cars wouldn’t have to burn petrol and smog up the place. They would run on a combination of grass cuttings and rainwater and, as they passed, the air would be…

Driving while attempting to preserve the environment is a notoriously difficult manoeuvre to pull off. And yet the environmentally conscious driver still exists. But there’s hope…

It’s probably fair to say that reviewers of cars don’t do as much as we could in the way of crash-testing. Asking questions about a new model’s crumple zones by, say, slamming…

The Volkswagen Golf, now in its fifth incarnation, has been with us for 30 years. In that time, the mother and father of all hatchbacks aimed to become the Beetle of its era, and…