Author Archives: Mark

Stirling effort

Stirling effort

A military nut has set his sights on rebuilding a rare WW2 bomber in his garden shed. Martin Smith, 50, started on his very own Short Stirling after finding a shelf full of aircraft instruments in an ...
Peter Cracknell reviews the Peugeot 5008

Peter Cracknell reviews the Peugeot 5008

You see a lot of MPVs around these days, and those who haven’t owned one might well be wondering why they’re so popular; after all, the traditional people carrier, inevitably fairly tall and in some c ...
Peter Cracknell reviews the Kia Sportage

Peter Cracknell reviews the Kia Sportage

The Sportage is the Korean company’s best seller, and these days that means a lot of cars. In the first years of operations here in the UK, Kia’s reputation grew through old-fashioned value-for-money ...