Another new MINI...and it has five doors

Arguably the most sensible offering in the MINI line-up. The standard MINI hatchback will be available for the first time with five doors.

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.

Another new MINI, meet the Paceman

The MINI range continues to expand. The latest addition is the all new Paceman.

UK Car production success

Britain's car industry is booming up and down the country and Definitely Motoring celebrates.

SOME may tell you that Britain has no car industry anymore and that it’s a sad state of affairs. Granted in the truest sense. There’s no domestically owned British manufacturer these days that makes cars for the mass market. There hasn’t been since MG Rover collapsed in 2005.

But to say there’s no car industry is nonsense. In fact, car manufacturing in the UK is on the up and this can only be great news.

Brown cars on the road

Tra la la la la. There were brown cars on the road...

BROWN cars were a common sight in the 1970s and the 1980s. But you don't really see any in that colour these days. Most brown cars were made over 30 years ago. So most of them will be scrapped, and surviving ones will be hidden and stored away in garages.

One week, I spotted two brown cars in the wild funnily enough. With a 1979 Leyland Mini in Blackburn. Which looks very similar to the one my father owned in his youth - yes he did have a brown Mini which was also his first car.

A decade of the MINI

This year, it is 10 years since the new MINI hit the streets. Time sure flies.

MINI Roller

This is no ordinary MINI. This limited edition model launched at this year's Shanghai Motor Show. This one-off MINI has the Spirit of Ecstasy that commands a fat signature from your chequebook...