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Nov 28, 2024 | 
msn.com | James L Mills
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
hagerty.com | James L Mills
“Is there a better £15,000 sports saloon?” asked the headline on the cover of Autocar & Motor, in April 1991. Somewhat spoiling the surprise, before readers had had a chance to pick a copy off the newsstand and flick to the road test of the new BMW 318i, the editor answered the question: “We don’t think so.”Launched in November 1990, the E36 was the successor to the popular E30, the entry-level model that saw BMW’s reach spread far and wide across the world’s middle classes. It was a big deal.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
hagerty.com | James L Mills
When it comes to cock-ups, mismanagement, and hoping for fair winds and following seas, Jaguar is right up there. If you haven’t heard, the Jaguar part of JLR—Jaguar Land Rover—is in a pickle. Earlier this year, it stopped selling the XE and XF sedans as well the F-Type sports car. Now it’s pulled the plug on the I-Pace electric car, the E-Pace junior SUV, and its primary cash cow, the F-Pace SUV. This means you now can’t buy a new Jaguar in the U.K. And that means Jag dealers can’t sell you one.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
hagerty.com | James L Mills
Have you ever sat in on a focus group about cars? I did once, and within a few minutes I would have given anything to make a bid for freedom and the nearest pub. It’s several hours of ill-informed people talking over each other, until the loudest, most monotonous person in the room grinds everyone else down to the point where they nod and agree with everything they say—just so they can escape for the nearest pub. These people don’t realize they are born with two ears and one mouth.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
hagerty.co.uk | James L Mills |Stefan Lombard
Have you ever sat in on a focus group about cars? I did once, and within a few minutes I would have given anything to make a bid for freedom and the nearest pub. It’s several hours of ill-informed people talking over each other, until the loudest, most monotonous person in the room grinds everyone else down to the point where they nod and agree with everything they say – just so they can escape, for the nearest pub. These people don’t realise they are born with two ears and one mouth.
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Dec 21, 2023 | 
hagerty.co.uk | James L Mills |Stefan Lombard
The transition from 2023 to 2024 seems a fine time to celebrate 30 years of the Aston Martin DB7, which made its first public appearance at the 1993 Geneva motor show and then went on sale in the autumn of 1994. James Mills went along for the ride all those years ago during his time with Auto Express and here shares his fond recollections of this monumental Aston. – ED How much is your car to insure? Find out in four easy steps.
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Dec 18, 2023 | 
hagerty.co.uk | Giles Chapman |James L Mills
The transition from 2023 to 2024 seems a fine time to celebrate 30 years of the Aston Martin DB7, which made its public debut at the 1993 Geneva motor show and then went on sale in the autumn of 1994. Here Giles Chapman recalls his sit-down interview with the late Walter Hayes and the genesis of the car that would save Aston Martin. – EDNothing fazes you when you’re young.
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Dec 4, 2023 | 
hagerty.co.uk | James L Mills |Stefan Lombard
You have to feel sorry for all the folks behind the scenes at Top Gear. After doing what they’ve been told to do by executives, they find themselves out of work. The BBC has finally admitted what the crew and presenters have known since last December: The show is over, taken off the road and left in a lockup like a worn-out classic car desperately in need of care and attention. With so many of the team being self-employed, finding work to pay the bills and provide for families has been challenging.
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Nov 15, 2023 | 
hagerty.co.uk | James L Mills |Stefan Lombard
On a recent visit to the road at Beachy Head, an occasional stomping ground during my three-and-counting decades as a motoring writer, something seemed off. If you haven’t been before, it’s a glorious stretch of road that tours a particularly special section of the South Downs, tracing the Seven Sisters white chalk cliff formations that climb out of the sea at the southernmost end of Eastbourne, in East Sussex.
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Oct 27, 2023 | 
motorsportmagazine.com | Andrew Frankel |James L Mills |James Elson
TWR is back. The name behind Jaguar’s Le Mans-winning XJR-9, the BTCC-conquering Rover Vitesse and the world’s raciest estate, the Volvo 850, is being revived as a “world-class constructor of bespoke high-performance automobiles”. Fergus Walkinshaw, son of Tom Walkinshaw Racing’s eponymous late founder, has obtained the rights to the name, as he looks to carry on his father’s legacy with low volume, high-performance road-going vehicles, including a TWR-badged model.
