March 9, 2016
Reprising 1981’s James Bond epic For Your Eyes Only aboard a ski-racked Evora, Johnny Tipler goes off-piste in the Alps.
I’m in Geneva, gateway to the Alps, luxuriating in the Hotel d’Angleterre beside the lakeside promenade, on a Lotus Cars press trip. I’ve driven an...
March 9, 2016
Two very different takes on modifying a 911: a supercharged 993 and a stripped-out 3.2 Carrera Club Sport. Both are brimming with attitude, yet one is a suave mile-muncher while the other’s a trackday bruiser.
There’s more than one way to skin a cat,and what we have her...
March 9, 2016
En route to Monaco, Johnny Tipler airs the new 1.6 Elise on some of the finest driving roads in Europe. Welcome to La Route Napoleon and the Gorge du Verdon.
We’re literally blown away. Snapper Fraser and I are no lightweights (physically, at least, if not intellectual...
February 29, 2016
The Rallye Monte Carlo Historique attracts a fair number of crews from Scandinavia – 20 out of 305 entries this year – and their prevailing winter climate means they have a natural aptitude for rallying. We follow the fortunes of two Norse 911s as team insiders.
The pow...
February 29, 2016
Peel back the covers from classic racing Porsches in paddocks at historic meetings and, chances are, Uwe Niermann’s firm will have prepped many of them. I perused the treasures in his Aachen workshops.
The yellow GT40 swoops through Eau Rouge; it’s the ex-Ecurie Francor...
February 29, 2016
Delving into his profound 911 knowhow, Alois Ruf has produced a 2.8 RSR lookalike, a ’70s car upgraded with newer powertrain and running gear. I travelled back to the future at Pfaffenheim.
Trust Alois Ruf to spring a surprise. Just when you’d pegged him as the turbo ki...
February 10, 2016
A long day’s run from Tangier, the Atlas Mountains provide amazing Lotus driving roads. Dodging the rock falls, Johnny Tipler’s Marrakech Express is a Europa SE.
I never imagined schoolboy French would come in so handy, but I found out in Morocco. Hauled over by a coup...
February 4, 2016
There’s nothing like being on a race track with a proper racing car, and when that happens to be a front-running Carrera Cup 964 it’s a fabulous bonus.
Welcome to the tea party! This time we have a really amazing piece of car confectionary to drool over. We’ve come to...
