Gatecrashing the German party

Volvo quietly rocks up the establishment...

BOTTLED IT!: NSU Ro80

An influential car with great design and ideas behind it, that sadly never realised its potential.

New sketches of the Audi TT

Audi have revealed sketches of their third generation sports coupe.

Those wheels: Pepperpots

Do you remember these Eighties classics?

PEPPERPOT wheels. My father calls them 'cheese wheels'. Probably because they remind him of those blocks of Swiss cheese. The ones with the holes, like the ones often seen on cartoons. 

Pepperpot wheels are a notable feature on cars from the 1980s. Very much in their time like Duran Duran, fluorescent clothing and Rubix cubes. From Metros to Jaguars, there were many cars from an era that had pepperpot wheels.

Memoirs of the Audi 80

A look at a car back in my childhood – or what my parents drove. I was a child in the 1990s and a silver Audi 80 was a car my father proudly owned.

Are Audi playing it too safe?

Audi is highly regarded for building high quality and desirable cars. But is the German brand afraid of taking risks when designing their cars?