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Lost Bugatti meets the 24-litre Napier-Railton at Brooklands

Last weekend I was fortunate to see the massive "Lost Bugatti" on display for a short time at Brooklands Museum alongside the equally impressive 24-litre Napier-Railton — a permanent exhibit at the famous race track and museum.

Napier-Railton: 24-litre race car meets Leica M at Brooklands

This morning I arrived at Brooklands Museum in Weybridge just in time to see the unique Napier-Railton...

Come on young Tesla, it’s time for your homework

Is it really true that thousands of American parents are naming their kids after cars? Even Austin? Let's pull the other one...

Brooklands: Secrets of the Transport Museum

A new ten-part series takes us behind the scenes at one of the world's most unusual transport museums, built on the site of Britain's first purpose-build road-racing circuit at Brooklands...

Leica Q at Five: The camera they got right

Five years on, Mike takes a look at the impact made by the Leica Q in 2015 and explains why this has been Leica's most successful digital camera to date.

Bentley boys and girls come out to play

Bentley and Brooklands were almost synonymous during between the two great wars. So where better to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the marque? Mike goes to find out, complete with picnic hamper

Leica DG 12-60mm: Is this the ideal one-stop-shop zoom for micro four-thirds?

The Leica DG 12-60mm zoom ticks all the boxes — excellent image quality, light weight, small size and full stabilisation. Could it be the only lens you need for your Panasonic micro four-thirds body?

Brooklands sets up the new scoreboard, a fresh glimpse of 1935

After 78 years there is a race scoreboard towering over the finishing straight at Brooklands, the world's first purpose-built motor racing track. Mike went along the record the event….

Bloodhound Supersonic Car: A tale of two dashboards and no champagne

Last Friday I completed my first freelance journalistic assignment of recent years, reporting for the Australian website, The Rolling Road. The occasion was the public viewing of the supersonic Bloodhound, the 1,000-mph vehicle set to attempt the land-speed record.

Leica Q Review: Quality, simplicity, innovation, competence, sheer delight

The Leica Q is the company’s most significant introduction since the M240. Not only does this camera meet competitors such as Sony and Fuji on equal terms, it betters them in several respects while offering Leica’s unique selling proposition, simplicity. At last, in the Q, we have a full-frame compact with a superb lens that gives up little, except the versatility of a system mount and the rangefinder system, to the more expensive M. It is the perfect second camera for any M owner. And at its price it will attract new recruits to Leica ownership.