Domestic Strife Caused by Telltale Telematics …. I’m in seriously deep shhtook these days, and it’s all Ford’s fault. I currently have a Ford Transit van on long term appraisal and behind the dashboard is a telematics module supplied by Cybit, the fleet management and computer software company, with whom […] Read more »
Feature: Car of the Year 2010
Kia Sportage Is Scottish Car Of The Year 2010 …. KIA’S stylish new Sportage has taken Scotland’s top motoring accolade at the 2010 Scottish Car of the Year Awards. The Kia drove off with the prestigious Scottish Car of the Year title at a gala event in the Fairmont St […] Read more »
Blethers: Misery in Munich
Flights of Hateful Fancy …. I hate airports, and I’m beginning to hate flying too. It’s not so much the airport building or the flight, it’s all the bleedin’ time spent hanging around these modern cathedrals of cantankerousness waiting, and waiting, and then waiting some more. I often spend more […] Read more »
Feature: Rallying in Germanland
Achtung! Read ze following - qvestions vill be asked aftervards …. Jaggy’s penpal (yes, he truly does have friends) dropped him a line about his latest adventures in Germanland rallying. Calum MacLeod is stationed over there these days and keeps up to date with son Ruary’s rallying adventures in Scotland […] Read more »
Feature: Chatsworth Rally Show
Chatsworth Rally Day …. Sometimes referred to as the ‘Goodwood of the North’ I went to the Chatsworth Rally Show for the first time the other weekend, and there were quite a few Scots around and about, plus some other weel-kent faces, supping ice cream in the sun and slurping […] Read more »
Blethers: Pure Nonsense
The 2010 Season Preview …. Whilst gazing into my boiling cauldron (the wife was making soup, or maybe it was stuff to patch up the holes in the drive after the recent hard frosts - whatever, I’ll eat it/fill it if I’m told to) and I saw some visions. Whether […] Read more »
Blethers: Case of the Stolen Bicycle
Bicycle Blagging in Barcelona …. Well, there I was sitting with the feet up and laptop on my lap, trying to compose some serious motoring drivel. I was seated in the foyer of the Diplomat Hotel in Barcelona with nary a care in the world. I had just finished breakfast, […] Read more »
Blethers: Another Night of Stars
McRae Musings …. Coltness Car Club were hoping for an easier time at this year’s event, and for a wee while after last year’s wonderful tribute to their former member and world champion, it did indeed look as though last weekend’s event would be back to normal. And yes, it […] Read more »