Breakfast in Berkeley Square: The Linley limited edition Bentley Continental...
New contributor, Nic Wing, pops out for a cappuccino and finds himself lounging around in the new Linley limited Edition Bentley Continental Flying Spur, chatting to David Linley himself. Funny old...
View ArticleA visit to Jack Barclay’s stock room of big-engined delights
During a delightful cigar walk around London's most prestigious neighborhoods, we were taken to Bentley dealer Jack Barclay's "stock room". A place car enthusiasts won't ever forget...
View ArticleOur Prodigal crash at Spa’s notorious Eau Rouge
We love cars. We relish driving quickly and well. We adore circuits. But driving Spa-Francorchamps in the wet can represent a serious challenge, as Straight-Six finds out. The hard way.
View ArticleA busted M3. An invoice for repairs. A decision to take. The end?
With one very sick-looking M3 following a respectable crash at Spa's Eau Rouge, Six faces the invoice for repairs and a decision to go ahead or stop...right...there.
View ArticleMeccaniche Veloci – Ginetta GT Supercup
This month saw the thrilling conclusion to the Ginetta GT Supercup at Silverstone, and The Prodigal Guide had full access, thanks to the hospitality of Meccaniche Veloci, sponsors of the Century...
View ArticleThe city car grows up: Audi A1 Sportback
We’re really rather taken with this little car from Audi. It looks the part and will certainly ensure that you’re cosseted from the world as you cruise down Jermyn Street for the fourth time looking...
View ArticleDarth Juke-R: Nissan take the piss and we love them for it
Nissan displayed a profoundly dark and impish sense of humour when they decided to create the Juke-R, previously the most ridiculed modern car on the road. With a GT-R engine in it, no-one would dare...
View ArticleHunting native wildlife in a Camaro SS
What we discover during a short trip to the US is that Chevrolet's Camaro SS is obscene. Obscenely ugly, obscenely cheaply made and obscenely hard to return to the car rental company once you start to...
View Article“Dear God…” Or why the Flying Finns did it better
While it's clear most rally drivers have had their fear and logic fuses removed, the dichotomy between the habitual Finnish cultural pillars of social reserve and restraint and the manner in which they...
View ArticleWings of ecstasy: The Rolls-Royce Phantom Series II
There is no greater automotive peak than Rolls-Royce. As part of a very small and select group of bloggers, The Prodigal Guide scaled the heights with the launch of the new Phantom Series II in...
View ArticleFeathers of ecstasy: The artisans behind the Rolls-Royce Phantom Series II
To soar, your wings need the finest, well-kept feathers. The artisans behind the new Rolls-Royce Phantom Series II more than deliver on the promise of the Spirit of Ecstasy. We introduce you to three...
View ArticleEnough already: We slip behind the wheel of the Rolls-Royce Phantom Series II
Enough teasing: we manage to get behind the wheel of the Rolls-Royce Phantom Series II to tell you what it's like to drive something worth a family home...
View ArticleLamborghini Uncovered: A moving museum in London, 18-24 June
Our favourite luxury car dealer, HR Owen, is putting on quite a show for London-based petrol-heads: a dynamic museum of Lamborghini cars is all set to ‘pop up’ in significant London public space and...
View ArticleBMW “High Performance Art” ad reminds us of how an M5 should be used
BMW Canada release a high performance art ad of the new M5 that amuses us, for a while. Before we remember what an M5 should really do: get Madonna to wet her pants.
View ArticleAston Martin and Jaeger-LeCoultre: A match made in heaven? Part I
Our man Dublo points his trusty Peugeot 308 towards Gaydon and splutters off in search of answers. Is the union between Aston Martin and Jaeger-LeCoultre just style over substance or is there more to it?
View ArticleJust because: Ken Block tears up San Francisco in inimitable style
We've raved about profesional rally driver Ken Block's incredible skill before here on The Guide but we think this time the raving lunatic has excelled himself. He has just made this unbelievable video...
View ArticleAston Martin and Jaeger-LeCoultre: A match made in heaven? Part III
On Tuesday, Dublo told us how he got to play with the gorgeous range of AMVOX watches by Jaeger-LeCoultre at Aston Martin’s Gaydon HQ. Today, he describes his tour of their factory and a rather special...
View ArticleAston Martin and Jaeger-LeCoultre: A match made in heaven? Part IV
Yesterday, Dublo described his access-all-areas trip around the Aston Martin factory at Gaydon. Today, we get to see behind the scenes of the One-77 production line – a dedicated factory for Aston...
View ArticleChelsea AutoLegends 2012 as seen by a four year old
Every single photo you see here was taken by The Prodigal Fool's Canon S100 in the rather excited hands of, eh, his four year old son. Want professionally shot and retouched photos taken with skill and...
View Article‘Ninhoooo!’ How racers slip n’ slide sadistic with significant others
Six once put his wife in the driver's seat and let her loose at the Ring. She cried, slapped him and never went on the track ever again. Turns our some of the world's great drivers like to do exactly...
View ArticleThe Prodigal Run 2012: Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Roadster draws the short straw
The Prodigal Run 2012 is happening this week and, though we say so ourselves, we think we’ve lined up our best yet. The real question was which car could possibly handle the trip and us as drivers...
View ArticleThe Prodigal Run 2012 from behind the wheel of a Mercedes SLS AMG Roadster
Almost 3,000 kilometres in four days by way of fine champagne, food, high-end watches and the AMG engine factory? Why, we must be talking about the Prodigal Run 2012, an event that leaves us profoundly...
View ArticleOne man, one engine: the wholly unstoppable force of Mercedes-AMG
We were in no doubt that the Mercedes-AMG SLS Roadster was a super-GT, perhaps even the super-GT. What we weren't expecting was that a trip to the AMG engine assembly plant and a name plate with a...
View ArticleLiving With A Ghost
The Prodigal Fool recently got the keys to a Rolls-Royce Ghost for the weekend. He returns bowled over by its engineering, charmed by its opulent interior detailing, and ever so slightly confused about...
View ArticleJaguar: The F Word
Jaguar’s new sporting roadster is obscenely good, as Ben Oliver discovers, exclusively for The Prodigal Guide.
View ArticleRolls-Royce turns Knightsbridge into an automotive red light district
Our founder blunders upon an amazing discovery: the nicest bottom in motoring.
View ArticleAston Martin goes retro-futuristic wild
Gaydon's finest has produced one of the most spectacular cars of 2013.
View ArticleThe Bentley Continental GTC V8: Seductive British beast
The Fool falls in love with a badly dressed, topless girl from Crewe.
View ArticleVolvo: saving planet Earth, and our backsides
A polite hybrid on The Prodigal Guide? What the hell is going on? Our co-founder Eric Drosin says it's time for a new approach to planet-friendly motoring.
View ArticleAudi RS6 Avant: Big Smoke family motoring
Our founder has just plunged himself deeper into debt than ever with the purchase of the most powerful car Audi has ever made. Why?
View ArticleThe Lotus 2-Eleven: automotive tart with a heart
In search of a second car and with his on-off relationship with Lotus at stake, our co-founder finds salvation in the form of a six-year-old track day behemoth.
View ArticleThe Guide goes to Goodwood
The Goodwood Festival of Speed is the greatest car show in the UK. We present a small selection of automotive wonders (and one or two watches) we came across there.
View ArticleAt the Bentley rally, with Stephen Forsey
The day the Guide found itself in a field in Oxfordshire with one of the towering figures of the watch industry and an array of magnificent Bentleys. Prodigal heaven!
View ArticleSex on Wheels: the coolest cars of the ’70s
Most of them drive like dogs, but they all look the dog's... Here's our pick of the Seventies' sexiest motors
View ArticleLondon in a Lambo (sorry neighours)
The tortuous streets of west London will do just fine to test the Aventador Roadster, the latest bonkers supercar from Sant’Agata
View ArticleJames Hunt’s McLaren, in Richard Mille’s drive
On the eve of the release of 1970s F1 extravaganza Rush, we uncover James Hunt's F1-winning car, courtesy of a certain French watch industry legend...
View ArticleHi ho, Silver! Aston Martin gets domestic
That DB9 in your garage not enough? Well, thanks to silversmith extraordinaire Grant Macdonald, you can now get some Aston Martin onto your sideboard. And dining table. And drinks cabinet...
View ArticleThe Guide goes to Goodwood Revival
A photo record of the greatest motor sports festival on Earth, of this or any other vintage
View ArticleWeekend Welly: 5 of the UK’s best drives
At a loose end this weekend, with a half-decent car gathering dust in the garage? Allow TPG to provide some inspiration, with our five favourite driving routes around the UK...
View ArticleIf the Jetsons drove a car: Alfa Romeo’s Flying Saucer
Legendary Italian coachworkers Touring Superleggera have come up with their own, retro sci-fi tribute to the 60-year-old Alfa Romeo Disco Volante. Yes, we know...
View ArticleAre you into House or Garage? Why not both..?
For some, a car isn’t simply for driving – it’s a work of art. Here are six remarkable homes where their owners’ wheels vie for space with the coffee table itself…
View ArticleCaterham Bikes ride into town
Do not adjust your screen, this is not a test... Caterham Bikes is real, and their SUV motorcycle is happening. As well as a gorgeous Twenties-style roadster
View ArticleHerding Cats: Ecurie Ecosse Jaguars for sale
The world's most comprehensive collection of racecars from Scotland's famous Le Mans-winning team is to be sold at Bonhams this December
View ArticleThe Prodigal Run 2012: All kinds of awesome
The Prodigal Run 2012 is happening this week and, though we say so ourselves, we think we’ve lined up our best yet: a grueling four day road trip across Europe with the singular purpose of savouring...
View ArticleLamborghini Huracán: The bull in your driveway
The Lamborghini Gallardo’s runaway success was due entirely to its practicality and un-Italian ability to handle clogged city streets before being unleashed on autobahns and racetracks the world over....
View ArticleThe Lotus position
The Fool goes for a ride in Six's Lotus and emerges sweaty, hunched over in pain and utterly disoriented. But smiling.
View ArticleThe Lotus C-01 brings another galaxy to Earth. A fantastic one.
A motorcycle from another galaxy arrives, in the form of the Lotus C-01. And they're not even the ones making it...
View ArticleThe French give great head
Would it surprise you to know that the French give great head? The best, even? The helmets from Paris-based Ateliers Ruby elevate these mere lids to genuine legends.
View ArticleCitroen C4 Cactus: ‘Come on, just a little prick then’
Straight-Six believes the Citroen C4 Cactus is the prick the current over-wrought automotive bubble needs. And deserves. Has he been chewing peyote? Or finally seen the morning light...?
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