Mark Simpson on how young men fell out of love with the motor car In the James Bond film ‘Spectre’ Bond has a new car. An Aston Martin DB10. It looks very nice and very sleek. But it’s nothing like the DB5 that first appeared in Goldfinger, back in 1964… Read More »End of the Road For Boys’ Toys?
The strange twilight world of British speed limits When, as a kid in the 1970s, I first noticed the strange inner gauge with the inflated numbers on the speedometer of my dad’s new car, I asked him, as I always annoyingly did, “What’s it for, dad?” My dad, who was a… Read More »Imperial Confusion
Mark Simpson on the epidemic of ‘techno-hypnosis’ stalking our streets Remember the Japanese Tamgotchi craze of the Noughties? Remember how we all laughed at the foolishness and childishness of the little hand-held digital pet that demanded constant attention and ‘feeding’, otherwise it would ‘die’? Well, we’ve all got one now… Read More »Smartphones & Stupid People
“Just how badly do you treat your car?” asked the step-father of a 20 year old woman recently in an ‘ad’ for her somewhat neglected gold Peugeot 307 with 91,000 miles on the clock. “I bet it isn’t as bad as this stinking, petri dish of McDonald’s infested filth my step-daughter… Read More »The Truth About Filthy Cars
Mark Simpson on his kinky passion for his dinky Japanese sports car I hate my car. I hate the way I’m blinded by other cars’ headlights. I hate the way all the dirt and water on the road ends up covering it, turning it into a submarine on motorways. I… Read More »Top-Down Adoration: Mazda’s MX-5