Cars

Track driving the MGA at Goodwood Motor Circuit

November 1, 2012 Cars

Vroom vroom. It’s been a while since my father and I have been driving together. But a month or so ago he booked me in for a day trip to Goodwood, for a track driving day on the historical circuit in the grounds of the Earl of March’s home, about two hours south west of […]

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The Goodwood Festival of Speed: Driving the Volvo V60 Plugin Hybrid

July 3, 2012 Cars

Vroom, vroom…oh the joy of a day at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. For those of you who do not have petrolhead amongst their pastimes, suffice to say that it does what it says on the tin. SPEED. Coming, as I do from a background obsessed with speed — my paternal grandpa was an aeronautical […]

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LLG in England: a 1965 Austin Healey aka car p*rn

June 24, 2012 Cars

Well hello you.…*purrs* There are some of my friends who find my love of classic cars a little odd. To which I say, pointing at photos like the one above, even if you have no desire to drive them, how could you not look at that beautiful piece of design and not grin like a […]

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Mercedes Benz World (Heaven in Surrey)

December 6, 2011 Cars

Oh hello baby *insert purring noises*. This, my loves, is the 280SL. Otherwise known as the car I have longed for since I can remember. I didn’t get to drive it at Mercedes-Benz World last Monday, but I may have stroked it when no one was looking.

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Paris: L’Art de l’Automobile, (Ralph Lauren) at Les Arts Decoratifs

August 24, 2011 Cars

Imagine my horror at seeing the above queue for Les Arts Decoratifs next door to the Louvre when I had finally found a docking station for my Velib (FORTY minutes cycling like a loon across the rue Saint Honore and up and down avenue de l’Opera frantically stabbing at my iPhone Velib app in the […]

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LLG does driving

August 15, 2010 Cars

This is me at the wheel of an XK120, in the pits at Silverstone, about to thwack the car around the circuit on a track day. When I say I love driving, I mean it. I properly love driving. And when my father taught me how to take a line on a racing corner my […]

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The Aston Martin Cygnet

June 30, 2009 Cars

I love driving. It’s up there on my list of favourite occupations. Whilst I was in California if I heard about a road with a mountain pass I was so there, even if it meant a massive detour. I like the feeling of being in control, I love the speed & the escapism, and I […]

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The post where I am made bereft by giving up my car

May 18, 2009 Californian Adventure

It’s hard to compute that today is my last full day in California. I fly tomorrow to London for three weeks, then head back back home to Manhattan. I’ve been away for 48 days now. Apart from all the obvious things (climate, people, environment), I’m going to miss my rental car. After two years of […]

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