Rusty Old Rubbish

More than a Mondeo? It's been more than a year since my last unsung hero, but the series makes its long-overdue return with the most ...

The unsung heroes series seems to have become rather more occasional than I intended, but here at last is a new entry. This one has been on ...

My intention to profile an unsung hero every month has rather fallen by the wayside this year. I still have plenty of deserving candidates b...

Travel on any modern low-floor bus and you'll soon notice a fundamental design problem. With the engine mounted at the rear, a flat floo...

This month the unsung heroes series returns to the USA with an especially bizarre choice that non-American readers will probably never have ...

It has been quite some time since I wrote anything for this blog due to other things going on - I have plenty of new posts drafted in my hea...

British Leyland have far more than their fair share of unsung heroes, being the car company everyone loves to hate, and today's subject ...

So far this series has mainly profiled cars, plus a couple of buses and a taxi, but I have never yet looked at the unsung heroes of the truc...

Along with the red Routemaster bus, the other instantly recognisable symbol of London and British public transport is the black cab. I can p...

Unsafe at any speed? Today's unsung hero is the first American car in the series and another controversial choice. The Chevrolet Corv...

For the month of March, what could be more appropriate than a car called March? Everyone must know the Nissan Micra (or March as it's na...

Most of the unsung heroes I have featured so far are cars, but the very first one was a bus and today I return to that theme. It's fair...

Four-wheel-drive isn't just for off-roaders anymore and its use in road cars is now commonplace. Everybody knows this idea began in 198...

Nobody laughs at Skoda nowadays. Thanks to the influence of parent company Volkswagen, the brand has become an award-winning mainstream prod...

If I was to mention the name Volkswagen, there are certain iconic cars everyone will immediately think of: the legendary Beetle, the trendy ...

It's fair to say the dawn of the 1980s was not a great time for British Leyland. The company had managed to survive the turmoil of the s...

Walk down any street in the UK nowadays and there is one type of car you're pretty much guaranteed to see: the crossover, combining the ...

I haven't championed an unsung hero for a very long time so a new entry is well overdue but this one may seem an odd choice: the Austin ...

Today's unsung hero was a common (if not universally popular) sight but has been gone from Britain's roads for over a decade: the I...

The unsung heroes series today turns its attention to another car from a Japanese manufacturer, although in reality it was actually a produc...