Schuey the ice man

Posted by Bill Thomas at 10:20AM on Friday 12 January, 2007 16 Comments

Talking to Professor Sid Watkins the other day about racing helmets and other motorsport stuff for the upcoming issue of the magazine.

I asked Sid to tell me a motorsport story from his work - a positive one - and he told me about Schuey...

Why I'm sick of Audi

Posted by Michael Harvey at 5:05PM on Thursday 11 January, 2007 43 Comments

I'm going right off Audi and here's why.

The Q7, the R10... and the R8.

Yeah, the R8. It never made sense as a concept nor in pictures so, with the PR telling me over and over that "all 300 cars due in the UK this year are sold", I spent an age looking over one this week...

High-concept nutjobs

Posted by Tom Ford at 10:10AM on Thursday 11 January, 2007 12 Comments

I didn't go to Detroit.

No reason particularly, except that last year I fell off a bridge, caused a PR person to have a fairly awful head wound and tried to walk the four miles to my hotel at 4am through cracktown USA with a broken ankle...

iPhone secrecy

Posted by Paul Horrell at 3:45PM on Wednesday 10 January, 2007 6 Comments

One thing about the iPhone announcement intrigued me as a car journalist. The lack of advance scoops.

But the car industry is hopelessly amateur at news management compared with Apple...