Mk3 Mondeo Ghia X looks POSH. Wood-rimmed steering wheel! POSH.

I love drawing and I felt like pencilling an imaginary scene last night. From my mind's eye to paper. Took about an hour and I'm proud of it. So it saddens me that I could have created something much more visually arresting, hi-res, photo-real, instantly via an AI prompt. It's literally artbreaking

We've had the i3 for three months now... and it's utterly brilliant. Nicola uses it in EV mode most of the time, charging overnight every fourth day or so. She's just filled the petrol tank for the third time. £9. BMW should make them again so we can buy another used one in 2030.

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.

I'm very angry right now

Bought a book. Dated 1914, and complete with a handwritten gift notification from New York, it somehow ended up in Oxfam in Woodbridge, Suffolk, where I bought what feels like a slice of American history for £10. And it's gorgeous.

Well, it's superb. Great fun to build, and a Lego set of equivalent detail - and only marginally higher quality - would cost a lot more. Nice work Mattel / Hot Wheels

Winter filthy, but God I love driving this car

It's time for a post-Christmas tradition, but this time it's not Lego. I'd never previously been aware of Mattel Brick Shop, but the existence of a Hot Wheels NSX kit piqued my interest big time. Build thread, then! 1/?

The original Wreckfest for mobiles is £0.89 on Google Play right now, and it's awesome. I love discovering AAA games when they're several years old and dirt cheap.

Uncle Buck's Mercury Marquis was only 13 years old in the film.

1965 Mercury Marauder is definitely the coolest car I've seen in the residents' parking at a retirement home.

When your brain is too full of car content

It's Christmas 1986. I'm wearing my Knight Rider sweater, and I've just unwrapped my Knight Rider stunt set. Quite liked Knight Rider, me.

Buy well, buy once. My Nan's 1967 Kenwood Chef (now ours) will probably still be mixing Christmas cake in 3025.

A shabby D2 4.2 Quattro is quite devastatingly cool. Looks like it would tear your face off if you looked at it the wrong way. Withnail and I, the Ronin years.

BMW i3's Christmas Pack gives you Mulled Wine carriers

Yay Facebook. Still, all engagement is good, right?

Lady behind the wheel of this D2 S8 was getting some excellent noises out of it.

Vilnius is pretty serious about Christmas

Few things more exciting than touching down in a city I've never visited before. Shame the Ryanair experience is more like taking a very cramped elevator than relishing the magic of flight.

At junior school one day, we had to sew 3D shapes and I wanted mine to somehow represent a car, but we were told we had to make them animals. So this is Pointy the wheeled pyramidal dog.

What TF is wrong with these people

Every now and again, I revisit the flight manual for Microprose F19 Stealth Fighter for Atari ST. By crikey it's a good read.

Somebody just down the road from me is evidently winning at life

In-flight entertainment. Some lines courtesy of turbulence

Vantage looks great and all, but it would be SICK if it was in a colour.

Somebody working at or visiting BYD head office has exquisite taste

I'm about ready to move in now

Not much on TV tonight, so I started to design my dream mid-century house

I regularly find myself whistling "Winning Run" from Super Hang-On. I kind of hope that one day somebody will recognise it and it'll be the beginning of a beautiful friendship

Gotta love charity shops. This will never, ever find a buyer

Did a crossword with my gran. Clue was "an overabundance". I thought excess, surplus, extravagance – too much of something. The answer turned out to be "plethora", which I think of as being "more than enough, but not too much". I've noticed before that computer-generated crosswords don't get nuance.

The 1962 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud in 1985's View To A Kill was cast as a symbol of aristocracy and old-money values. If 2026 Bond smoked around in a 2003 Phantom, he'd look more like his pub was doing quite well or he'd sold a lot of hot tubs.

New Hyundai Nexo. Cyberpunk design aesthetic really working well here IMO

Honestly what tf is wrong with these people?

Honestly what tf is wrong with these people?

Night night. See you next year.

Definitely a traction control ON day today

No pics for proof, but today I saw a Redcorn scrap collection lorry carrying two cars: An Alfa Romeo MiTO and.... a mossy Type 4 Fiat Croma.

BMWs. Gotta collect 'em all

this whole first-person narrative SEO optimisation thing is sucking all my enjoyment out of a big chunk of the internet

First fill-up for the i3. Gotta love a nine-litre fuel tank!

Emotional day today. Peugeot 306 (aka Donkey) is leaving us for a new life on the South coast with a very sympathetic new owner. Nicola has owned it since she was 18 (... two decades ago). Life goes on, and the i3 has big shoes to fill.

There is nothing I dislike about the BMW i3's dashboard

Lidl of Cirencester delivered yesterday: extremely fit Alfa.

Your occasional reminder that the first-gen Volvo S40 was quite a good looking car. Also virtually unique in having side marker lights in the UK.

White Whale Supra spotted locally:

I mean, seriously. These people.