Worth the hassle of finding Albert Road, Southampton (SO14 3FR) and the £6.50 adult admission fee, this charitable status collection reveals much of the proud aviation history of the Solent region.
MAY 2012
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Solent Sky Museum
Flugausstellung Hermeskeil
Warthog spent hours here during a 2009 Classic Car Rally. For car enthusiasts it’s just an hour so drive from the Nurburgring and has an enormous display of military and civil aircraft that are rare treats to British eyes
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From Frogeye Sprites to Range Rovers, read about the highs and lows of keeping, and enjoying, beloved motors on the road.
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Marque histories - Ford, BMW, Lotus, plus biographies of motoring legends.
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We review books, old and new, that we have found interesting.
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About this site
Award-winning motoring writer Jeremy Walton first began writing about cars for a living in 1967 with the leading enthusiast's magazine of the day, Cars & Car Conversions. Over 40 years later, following spells at Motoring News and Motor Sport - plus competing in a wide variety of disciplines from autocross to 24-hour international saloon car racing - his enthusiasm for all things automotive remains undimmed.
The author of 35 published motoring books, JW shares his experience from the past and the present in this website.
Back in USA Bimmerland...
Walton's latest BMW book BMW: Ultimate Drives recently launched to critical acclaim, and sales success, in Colorado.
DRIVE IT DAY
Our 2012 got off to an excellent business start at Warthog towers with unexpected activity on BMW front including 7-Series research for a magazine that’s apparently slated to reach 4 million English speakers.
BMW UK allowed the chance of driving a brace of M cars (M3 GTS and 1M coupe) for Volume 2 of Walton’s Ultimate Drives saga, from Coterie Publishing.
A condensed version of our impressions appears in our Road Tests section.
A perfect March day saw us at Silverstone for the preview of the
2012 British Touring Car Championship
The latest instalment in Warthog's tale of the trials and tribulations — as well as the terrific times — of Frogeye ownership.
Team Warthog on the Hagerty sponsored run from Silverstone to Donington for Drive It Day
25 years of the BMW Z-series is just one of the motoring anniversaries to be celebrated at the Silverstone Classic meeting in June. Warthog went along to the media preview day to find out what else will be there ... read more
At the races...
The thrilling opening Brands Hatch, Donington and Thruxton rounds of the BTCC completed, a lull occurred until the June 10 Oulton Park fixture. We have seen multiple different winning drivers and marques, including standing in the lashing rain at Thruxton courtesy of Honda who are looking increasingly effective.
Perhaps THE surprise was the form of the Triple Eight-prepped MG6, which showed immediate front running form and has won its first race already.
Perhaps THE surprise was the form of the Triple Eight-prepped MG6, which showed immediate front running form and has won its first race already.
As this is written Jason Plato and MG Momentum Racing lead the series by four points over Gordon Shedden and Matt Neal in equally professionally entered Hondas.
An early winner in the dry was Rob Collard in the eBay BMW 320si (now with turbo power, like the other pair of eBay BMs). Mat Jackson has been a winner with the older spec Ford Focus—also part of a 3-car team.
See our report of BTCC preview HERE