Car Throttle

We’re not going to patronise you by droning on about the importance of maintaining your car tyres – if you’re reading this website, you already know all about that. A key factor though, is staying on top of tyre pressures, and there are a number of ways you can go about that. You could work up a sweat with a foot pump, or you could pop to the local garage to use an air machine that might not be entirely accurate and will probably be out of service anyway.

Anything that can speed up the process of working on your car has to be a good thing in our book, and ensuring all the tools you’ll need are readily accessible is one of the best ways to do that. Getting everything ready beforehand and keeping it nearby means you’re not having to constantly get up and search around for whatever you might need, speeding things up massively. For this, you’ll want a good service trolley, and they don’t get much better than the Clarke CTT130 Tool & Parts Trolley.

For several years now, a tiny, impossibly quick electric car built on an industrial estate in an idyllic corner of southwestern England has been making global headlines. It’s absolutely smashed multiple racetrack lap records, it’s pulled the mother of all PR stunts by sucking itself to a surface upside down like a giant four-wheeled barnacle, and it’s taken corners in such a bafflingly quick fashion that it makes any piece of footage of it look like it’s been sped up.

Performance SUVs are always going to be a contentious issue for hardcore car people. After all, they’re not only inherently compromised as performance cars thanks to their higher weight and centre of gravity, but so many have popped up in recent years that it’s come at the expense of many ‘traditional’ enthusiast cars: sports cars, hot hatches, performance saloons and the like. There’s a reason there are so many fast SUVs around, though: people love ’em.

Car shows are for the weekend, right? Wrong. The midweek is the new weekend, as far as we’re concerned, and our friends at Hagerty UK agree, which is why they’re opening up their awesome Clubhouse at Bicester Motion for Hagerty Hangouts, a series of casual Thursday evening car meets throughout the warmer months this year.

Working on a car can take a real physical toll on the human body, and we’re not just talking about how much effort you had to put into freeing up that one seized bolt. In all likelihood, you’re going to be doing lots of walking, kneeling and even lying down, all on a cold, hard surface that’s not all that friendly to comfort or posture.

Fuel injection is undoubtedly one of the greatest automotive innovations when it comes to practicality and reliability. First brought to prominence by the gorgeous Mercedes 300 SL ‘Gullwing’ in the 1950s, by the 1990s it had all but completely taken over from the carburetor, largely relegating the repetitive sound of a car trying to start on a choke to the domain of classics. It’s a system that’s unquestionably led to a huge leap in usability in modern cars, but that doesn’t mean it’s faultless.

We’re big believers in the mental health benefits of cars. We’re well aware of the mind-clearing benefits of going for a drive, tinkering with an engine, or even just going to a show to look at some pretty cars. However, a new study in Japan suggests that one particular aspect of driving brings not just an immediate mental health boost but long-term benefits to the overall health of the brain: driving a manual.

Goodwood Festival of Speed Britain may not have a ‘traditional’ motor show anymore, but it does have the Goodwood Festival of Speed, which in many ways is better. Not only are you in lovely, bucolic surroundings (assuming the rain stays away), as opposed to a big, soulless exhibition centre somewhere on the fringes of a city but you actually get to see and hear stuff getting driven – and driven hard.

Hot hatches: we’re a little bit obsessed with them. And why wouldn’t we be? From an enthusiast perspective, there’s not a lot better. You get a car that can do all the regular boring car stuff, and one that can still put a huge grin on your face, all in one go. Sadly, the traditional hot hatch is a dying breed in 2026, but thankfully, the used market still offers up an abundance of hot hatch riches to suit all but the very tightest budgets.