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By Nigel Wigmore

It was the ultimate boy’s toy – a superfast, super-expensive supercar. The 2009 Lamborghini Spyder’s throaty roar could be heard streets away and its good looks turned heads everywhere.

Indeed, my favourite comment as I cruised around Oxfordshire in the 2009 Lamborghini Gallardo LP560 Spyder was from a boy of about 14 who, passing on his chopper bike cast wise, young eyes over the car and said: “Sick!”

Apparently, in kid-speak this is the ultimate compliment for this ultimate boy’s toy. In the same way that if something is said to be bad, it is actually good, the Lamborghini Spyder being real bad. Continue reading →

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By Nigel Wigmore

It was one of those great moments in a motoring life that you appreciate because all of us seem to be constantly under the watchful eye of the politically correct.

Sure, no one should be racing cars on public roads these days and I adhere wholeheartedly to that.

However, I was at the wheel of the quickest new Kia Stinger, a model with a 3.3-litre V6 engine that produces 365bhp (that’s a lot) and sprints from 0-60mph in 4.7 seconds. So what are you going to do? Let’s just say my opportunity to put the Stinger through its paces came on a nice stretch of practically deserted dual carriageway. Continue reading →

By Nigel Wigmore

Another country – that place that might occupy our hearts and minds – often appears more attractive than the one we live in.

And yet there are many unexplored parts of our own country of which we remain blissfully ignorant.

I have been trying in recent months to put this right by taking road trips to places I should know but do not know at all. Continue reading →