In Memory of Mitchell “Mitch” Perera: An Icon of UAE Car Culture

A car culture icon of the United Arab Emirates has left us far too soon.

Laid-back, easy-going, ever enthusiastic, always eager to help, a keen foodie and, of course, a powerhouse of automotive passion, engineering endeavour and ingenuity. That was Mitch.

Please open a cold one and light up your rear tyres in honour of Mitch Perera, who leaves behind a high-octane legacy and lasting memories for those lucky enough to have known him.

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St James’s Motoring Spectacle 2026: 140 Years of Motoring Takes Over Pall Mall

Classics, Formula 1 cars, veteran machines and extraordinary little microcars brought around 15,000 visitors to London’s Pall Mall. Here’s my video coverage of a glorious day celebrating motoring

London in late October, under a cloudless blue sky, with a street full of wonderful cars and people smiling at one another. We should probably bottle that.

The St James’s Motoring Spectacle 2026 returned to Pall Mall on Saturday 31 October, transforming the street outside the Royal Automobile Club into a living journey through motoring history.

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01/11/2026 0

Why Motor Shows Sucked!

Edited highlights from a TikTok live frank and unscripted conversation recorded this weekend

Why did motor shows lose their excitement? Having spent years covering car launches, racing between press conferences and chasing headlines, I’ve seen how the magic started to fade. But the latest Paris Motor Show brought back something we’d been missing: cars that make you stop, stare and want a poster.

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26/10/2026 0

Is Car Brand Loyalty Still a Thing?

From Honda’s lost spark to Ford’s changing priorities, I ask whether familiar badges still offer the personality, reassurance and value that once kept us coming back

If your favourite car company stopped making the cars you loved, would you still owe it your loyalty? Increasingly, I look at some of these brands and wonder whether the customer has changed, or whether the company has simply wandered off in a different direction and left loyal customers waiting outside the showroom, deposits in hand.

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25/10/2026 0

Paris Motor Show 2026: Can These Concepts Save Europe’s Car Industry?

What if Europe’s greatest weapon against China is not battery technology or lower prices? What if it is the ability to make people fall in love with cars?

Paris Motor Show 2026 feels like the beginning of Europe’s great automotive fightback. Then again, it could also be the automotive equivalent of rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic. For the first time in years, a major motor show made me stop, stare and actually say: “Whoa, that is pretty cool.” Paris was overflowing with outrageous concepts, evocative names and European manufacturers that appeared to be rediscovering their personalities.

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12 Cheap Luxury Cars That Make You Look Rich in 2026

You can now buy a Lexus for under £5,000, a Maserati for family-hatchback money and even an Aston Martin for less than many new crossovers. These are the ultimate fake-it-till-you-make-it cars

What if you want to look as though you have made it in life, even when your finances tell a rather different story? Britain’s used-car market is packed with once-expensive luxury cars that now cost less than an ordinary new hatchback.

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Amitabh Bachchan’s coolest movie cars!

Here’s a run down of the best motors featured with Big B on screen (originally published 15/08/20)

Now in the 80s and 90s I used to watch a LOT of Bollywood movies – not so much now, as frankly, they were better back then. Technically the newer movies are brilliant, but they can’t match the 70s/80s/90s for stories, script and acting, particularly when it came to Amitabh Bachchan.

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11/10/2026 0

Used EV Bargains Save Tens of Thousands on an Electric Car

Heavy EV depreciation can create spectacular used-car bargains, including the BMW i4 M50 from around £28,000

With petrol and diesel costs climbing, you may be wondering whether it is finally time to switch to an electric car. For drivers who can charge cheaply at home, the sums can be compelling. Anyone taking their first tentative steps into electric motoring can also avoid one of the biggest financial risks by letting the original owner absorb the steepest depreciation.

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10/10/2026 0

Fuel Prices Soaring: Should You Change Your Car to Save Money?

With diesel passing £2 a litre, swapping into something more economical sounds like an obvious money-saver. Before spending thousands to cut your fuel bill, work out whether the savings will ever recover the cost of changing cars with our Exclusive Calculator!

Diesel has reached £2 a litre. Filling a 55-litre tank now costs around £110. At this rate, the petrol station should be offering finance, counselling and a free vomit bag. Faced with a bill like that, the obvious thought is that you need a more economical car. Some drivers could save more than £1,000 a year by changing cars. Others could spend £5,000 to save £300 annually and still be waiting to recover the difference sixteen years later. Before panic-buying a replacement, you need to ask a more useful question: will changing your car actually leave you better off?

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EV Sales Surge, China Tops UK Sales: What Happened in September 2026?

The Jaecoo 7 topped September sales, almost 100,000 EVs were registered and Chery’s brands approached a combined 10% market share. Yet EV uptake still trails the government mandate

Something extraordinary has happened in the British car market. The country’s best-selling new car in September was Chinese, almost 100,000 fully electric cars were registered in a single month, plug-in hybrids surged by more than 55% and Tesla placed two models in the overall UK top five.

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