Over the last several years caravans and vehicles have become heavier, but payloads and limits haven't increased. This has led to the majority of 4x4s and caravanners coming close to weight limits, and a subsequent rise in the popularity of GVM…
It's my view everyone should own an OBD scanner. My readers by and large are of the same view, as you can see here:
Michael Haworth I run one and use it on most trips to monitor transmission temp, exhaust gas temp,…
In 2024, I think Land Rover is more than a little confused. In 2003, it wasn't confused. But I think the roots of the confusion began in 1948.
Back when the Series 1 Land Rover was created by Rover it was just…
AI is everywhere now, and it's only going to take over more and more of the world and our jobs. Trying to resist change is futile; it didn't work for the mechanisation of agriculture or the industrialisation of manual labour,…
No matter how well prepared you are for your travels, you may well need help sooner or later. And then you need communications. In the video below I go through all the options, but in this article I want to…
Yes, Stroll was at fault, but two other drivers were very, very nearly in the same position. Guess that's why they're keeping very quiet.
Here's Lando behind Max. Note the gap.
Here's Charles behind Lando. Bigger gap. Now Charles is allowed…
Satphones require satellites, and the two main types of satellite constellation are geostationary and LEO, or low earth orbit. The latter means lots of satellites orbiting at low altitudes, and the former a very few satellites orbiting at higher elevations. …
This is a question I am getting about once every two weeks now, and it's impossible to answer because there's a sliding scale of cost vs risk reduction. In all aspects of life we make a tradeoff between safety and convenience/cost -…
Finally, Formula 1 circuit designers and managers are starting to replace tame tarmac runoff areas with surfaces that don't need track limits measurements because if you put a wheel over the line, you're in trouble. Unless of course you are Fernando…
In late 2022 I attended the now-defunct Motorclassica show and lamented that it was essentially Cars and Coffee in a nice house with a more expensive than usual cars.
None of the cars displayed told their stories, no interesting factoids were divulged,…