After military service a career as war correspondent was on the cards. But then an exclusive bursar programme in automotive journalism came 'a-knockin' - and so a 26-year journey spanning newspapers, ...

When mass market 4x4s first appeared on the scene in the 1970s, I was a little boy. I was in awe of these huge, rugged things that started appearing everywhere. Toyota Landcruisers, Range Rovers, ...

Among a sea of rubber-necking passersby, a woman from Bulgaria stops dead in her tracks, and some Polish men in a van slow to crawl. Eventually a dark-colored Porsche Cayenne rolls up and its windows ...

Boris Yeltsin might be butcher's hook in the comics, but the Lada Niva has just done a Lazarus and returned as a healthy Aussie Weetbix kid. The title of Lada Australia Pty Ltd is now held by a Perth ...

In 1971, Alexei Kosygin, premier of the Soviet Union, instructed two Russian car companies to create an automobile suitable ...