Classic and Collector Car News, Features and Interviews.
The UK Blog Awards 2017 Finals are taking place this Friday in London and Take to the Road will be there once again as a finalist. It is hard to believe it but this time last year Take to the Road won “Best Individual Automotive Blog” at the 2016 awards ceremony. So to be nominated again for the same category for UK Blog Awards 2017 is just amazing. Once again…
Launched in London’s Shoreditch on the 6th April, the Mini Remastered by David Brown Automotive is the eagerly-awaited second model to be made by the low-volume, British-based coachbuilder. Based on a classic Mini and reborn into a city car for modern living, Mini Remastered by David Brown Automotive combines the iconic Sixties car’s looks with Speedback GT design cues, unique coachbuilding construction, modern technology and luxury hand-finished materials – all…
RM Sotheby’s returns to the shores of Lake Como, Italy, for its highly anticipated Villa Erba sale on the 27 May. The Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este weekend will be showcasing the very best in stylish, pure-bred automobiles and the auction has already confirmed a terrific series of stylish and speed-orientated motor cars for the boutique evening sale. Some of the stars of the sale will undoubtedly be the 1930 Alfa…
Updated Market Pick: 5th April 2017 The striking homage to the original Fiat x1/9 Abarth Prototipo 2000 is once again up for sale. I am starting to think that this car is teasing me… tempting me to buy it. It is after all the ultimate Fiat x1/9 and a race car that should have had its day in the sun back in the 1970s… if it wasn’t for that pesky…
It is hard to believe but it is 25 years since the dramatically-styled, mid-engined, two-seater Jaguar XJ220 supercar was first introduced. It quickly became not only Jaguar’s fastest ever production car (an accolade it still holds today) but also the fastest production car in the world at that time, achieving an incredible 212.3 mph. Jaguar produced just 271 XJ220s between 1992 and 1994 in conjunction with its competition partner Tom…
On a quiet street on the east side of Rome, not far from the world famous Cimitero Monumentale Verano, is a small officina or workshop called Mittiga Tuning. I had the good fortune to pay a visit to this family run outfit while on a recent trip to the Italian capital. And what I saw not only surprised me, but also gave me hope for the future of classic car…
Take to the Road recently blagged an interview with the worlds greatest car parts blagger, Tim Shaw, co-star of the National Geographic’s Car SOS. The show is launching its 5th Series on Thursday 16th March on the National Geographic channel and we got a chance to chat with Tim and ask him what fans can look forward to in the new series. And what he would do if he was…
A classic 1948 Jaguar Mark IV sports saloon, first owned by Arthur Whittaker, the Deputy Chairman of Jaguar Cars, has been re-united with his family 67 years after he parted with it. During Historics at Brooklands classic car auction in Surrey on Saturday, 4th March, Whittaker’s four granddaughters – Lucy, Sally, Sarah and Charlotte – who discovered the car’s impending sale purely by chance a fortnight earlier – fought off…
Yes folks you read that correctly! Take to the Road has released its first ever music video called Whiskey in the Tank, which is full of classic cars of course. A couple of months ago our Italian friends and fellow YouTubers The Demented Monkeys contacted us to say that one of their group had come up with a song, inspired by our motto “Just Go Drive”. They chose inspiration from…
The dust has settled on another London Classic Car Show at the ExCel Exhibition Centre. It is hard to believe that only a few days ago I was surrounded by some of the finest collections of classic cars in the whole of the UK… even Europe. There was everything from a brash Ford GT40 to a compact Goggomobil. Over 37,000 people descended on the ExCel over the 4 day event,…