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Has two product design degrees and used to design mountain bikes. Realised that cars were a lot more interesting in 1990, and has been writing about them ever since.

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• Blue is the new green
  Vote blue, go green. That was the slogan David Cameron adopted when he took control of the Conservative...
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  More than 20 years ago, a couple of senior Volvo engineers travelled to Audi’s Ingolstadt HQ, bought...
• Sales collapse Stateside
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• The Blue Oval finally goes global
  Ford has released its financial results for the second quarter of 2008. In the 12 weeks between April...
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  I've been sworn to secrecy since for months, but now I can tell all. At the New York auto show last...
• Autocar writes, Boris listens
  This morning, there were a lot of strained looking people at the London Transport Museum. Boris Johnson...
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  It’s a pretty impressive performance. From your first car in 1967 – a chopped about Ford Cortina – to...
• Ferrari California in the flesh
  Modern cars are notoriously hard to judge from press pictures and, judging by the new car standing in...
• New 9-5 can't come soon enough
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• California breezin'
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