Richard Bremner

6 days ago | us3.campaign-archive.com | Ethan Jupp |Will Rimell |Richard Bremner |Charlie Martin

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1 week ago | autocar.co.uk | Richard Bremner

You must also wrestle a slightly resistant gearchange if it’s a six-speeder, the task further burdened by unhelpfully sited pedals and a troubled driving position that even a quartet of electric seat motors can’t mask. Which is why some buyers prefer the four-speed auto, despite its paucity of ratios. Further wrestling occurs if you get heavy with the throttle, the V8’s fast-boosting torque easily overwhelming the rear wheels, giving the ESP – or you, if you turn it off - plenty to do.

1 week ago | autocar.co.uk | Richard Bremner

From the moment the proud designer slides off the cloth cover, the car looks to be a nailed-on smash hit. Very often it is. But sometimes, a car that looks like a sure-fire winner fails to make the cut. Sometimes the car doesn’t drive in the ways its looks say it will. Sometimes the price is wrong. Sometimes there isn’t enough promotion behind it. Very often, it’s a mix of all these things and more.

1 week ago | autocar.co.uk | Richard Bremner

R50. Y-reg. Preferably with a plate ending in ‘OBL’. Eh? To decode, the R50 is the codename of the original BMW Mini, co-developed with Rover. Y-reg is a car from 2001. And if its registration number ends with ‘OBL’, then it was very likely owned by BMW and used as a demonstrator, a press car or a promotional vehicle.

3 weeks ago | autocar.co.uk | Richard Bremner

Depreciation: it can be as much a friend as an enemy. It shrinks the value of your wheeled assets but can also bring once-unattainable dreams within reach. The idea of a cheap Ferrari is almost as old as the brand itself, but as clichéd as the ‘Ferrari for the price of a Ford’ story is, the excitement of this possibility never wanes, so we make no excuses for once again testing the waters.