For more than half of the fifteen years I have been driving, I have owned an estate car, three of them in fact; partly because I am partial to the look of an estate, partly because I love the practicality of them and partly because they accommodate two medium sized dogs and all my camera equipment with ease.
Whilst having a friendly conversation last year with one of the sales staff in Roadside Motors Used Approved forecourt he mentioned something about an all new Suzuki Vitara that was about to be launched in Northern Ireland and that I…
Northern Ireland’s Prestigious 111 year old Cultra Hillclimb will this year be celebrating Pre-War MG’s with the theme of “Midget Gems” with organisers hoping to have an example of just about every road going M.G. ever made during that fabulous period, with up to six Pre-WW2 MG’s competing in the Ards & North Down Council Supported speed hill-climb competition.
The original Ariel Atom will forever be synonymous with that image of Jeremy Clarkson on track. You know the one. His face was turned to jelly as the sheer speed contorted every muscle. Clarkson’s mouth was akin to a hippo’s yawn and his many chins tried their best to strangling him as he drove the Atom at Top Gear’s Dunsfold test track.
Honda have been producing automobiles for longer than I care to research and over the years they have provided some of the most reliable and technologically advanced cars that the world has seen, driving innovation as well as performance with their Type R range of cars.
From a young age, I have been a big fan of the Subaru brand, right from the time that Colin McRae rallied the Subaru Legacy, that infamous sound from the boxer engine echoing around the stages is a noise only bettered by some of the old Grip B rally cars.
In the middle of 1964, Ford Motor Company in America launched the Ford Mustang, a four seater coupé that offered style, individuality and muscle under the growl of the V8 engine. The sheer V8 noise being what pretty much everyone will instantly talk about when they hear the two words Ford and Mustang.
Launched in 1998 the Ford Ranger has been a popular steed indeed, going through five generations and indeed this model tested from Monaghan Brothers in Lisnaskea is in fact a face lifted version of the current generation.
First impressions of the new Sportage were positive, it is a fresh looking vehicle with three funky looking DRL LED’s in the middle of each front light cluster, quite a trademark thing for the Sportage and most certainly thinking outside the box from Kia.
For some time now, you will have noticed that several car reviews end up in the grounds of Clandeboye Estate for imagery, while many of the four-wheel drive vehicles find themselves on the forest tracks and undulating hills of the estate’s off-road driving course.