Chris Haining

Work colleague went home to Hong Kong and brought me back this beautiful A60 Toyota Celica XX by Tomica Premium. One of the nicest little 1:64s I've ever seen.

Passed MOT, so here's for another year of sideways V8iness like it's 2003

A trawl through my old Facebook pics unearthed this shot of the Gazebo Tower we built at Glastonbury Festival in 2008. Complete with lights so its magnificence* could be seen for miles around.

In today's episode of Keeping The Past Alive, my Rover now has working electric windows and mirrors. Stay tuned for the next exciting instalment.

New What Car? Smart #2 video has me in it, but please, please watch it anyway. (youtu.be/48sO4u7lK4s?...)

Every comments thread about the Jaguar 01 is full of terrible people with terrible opinions - quite often not even really based on the car itself but some imagined threat to the world they live in.

Looe is pretty

The Bertone Stratos Zero is still one of my favourite shapes. And this model of it is a delight.

Snakes on a Plane? Here's (a) Smart on a Train.

Your occasional update on the legendary Twickenham Renault 5. It's still hanging on in there, gawd bless it.

Dom in his Mazda RX-7 vs Me in my Rover 800

If it had at-seat phone charging, the 1960s BR Mk2 coach would be pretty much the perfect rail conveyance even today.

I feel bad for everybody born too late to experience this era

So, I'm not keen on too much AI, but I just fed a rendering of a fantasy coach I made back in 2002 into Gemini, and I kind of love what it made of it.

Hoped this was a Rover tuning book. Turned out to be about calorie control.

Love that there's a 50 year-old Forward Control Land Rover at the heart of this behemoth

I could never be a car designer these days. I'd want my interiors to have something in them.

Slightly unfortunate slogan for the Astra GTE, given its theft record...

I know "because racecar", but could also be "because broken"

Spotted these little guys under the back of an Ineos Grenadier and now they live in my brain

The Ferrari 456 really has aged well

It is unlawful to not post an Audi A2 when you see one

Does seem ironic, given the strength of Tesla's driver-assistance tech, that so many are driven by tailgating morons.

Huge news if true

Wandering down Old Broad Street, and noticed "oh, that's not there any more"

I finally own a 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz (.... in 1/18 scale, by Maisto). I've actually fancied one of these since I first saw them in the Florida Mall in 1993 (I was 12). The model isn't particularly high fidelity by today's standards, but it still holds up pretty well.

It's never too hot to drive a black car with black leather and inop A/C... ... if it has a V8.

The raddest Bentley I've seen in a long time.

Forgive me for boasting, but this new corner of my garden is one of my very proudest achievements

Volkswagen Arteon really is / was handsome, isn't / wasn't it.

Winner of the M25 the other day

OBVIOUSLY REQUIRE METALWORK APPROXIMATELY THUS FOR MY BANNISTERS DON'T I

Long-range spot (from a moving train); Mk 1 Fiesta looks deliciously crisp.

Rehoming the name placque that my grandparents had over their front door onto our new pergola makes me feel all warm and fuzzy

I don't even care that the A/C doesn't work. That's how much I love this thing

For me, R129 was the definitive SL. Never bettered.

Stag Beetles are cool. Makes me wish I had an N-Gauge model railway to let one loose on.

I'd really appreciate it if YouTube ads weren't almost exclusively for Aliexpress-sourced scam miracle products.

If I was an AI person, I, too would have a display cabinet full of crisps in my living room

Infinite mirrors give this hotel stairwell a Large Hadron Collider aesthetic

Oddly comforting to see a chain-feed dot-matrix printer in front-line use at Rome Fiumicino airport

I like to park my Rover and my BMW in the order that I love them.

Always pleases me to see a 24 year-old car on the drive of a newbuild.

Only managed this useless pic, but a 1988 Suzuki Swift randomly turned into my cul de sac today. On a rare Wednesday working from home, at a moment that I just happened to glance out of the window. Yet I will NEVER win the lottery. Prolly get struck by lightning tomorrow.

Early Busso Alfa 156 wins the music festival car park

Worst thing about an M25 commute is that you encounter the same dangerous pricks the same time every day. The black Model Y with dark tints, weaving through traffic at 90+; the white Tiguan that does similar but with extra tailgating. If you don't like the regulars at a pub, you can use another pub

Yeah I know it's a "budget" Ibis. But even pissing Travelodge gives you a teabag. Pretty sure a £4 teabag paywall is a contravention of human rights

One of these two cars is good. But I'd rather own the other.