THOSE of you who have been following
Life On Cars for the past few years will probably have worked out it's about motoring by now.
Driving cars - and more importantly, writing about them - is what this blog's always been about, and it's always heartening to see from the number of hits that people do read it and enjoy it. Which is why, in a tradition started way back in 2010, I've always liked to give something back by creating
special, online-only magazines packed with features, reviews and test drives.
This isn't one of them.
There will be no tenth issue of the imaginatively-titled
Life On Cars magazine but what I've got instead is something I use to show the car makers, the PR people and
the SMMT that all my test drives do actually make it into print - what I call the
Champion motoring roadtest directory.
Readers familiar with the motoring pages of
The Champion will be familiar with its pages but for those of you who don't live in Sefton and West Lancashire - which I know is a lot of you - it's possibly the first time you'll get to see a range of test drives and Life On Cars pieces as they've appeared in print. Covering everything from the Alfa Giulietta to the Volkswagen Polo GTI, it's an exhaustive look at almost all the cars I've driven over the past year.
Of course,
Life On Cars is about more than just test drives and there's all sorts of stories and reviews on the way, including I hope, for the first time ever, coverage of the simply colossal
Cholmondeley Pageant of Power later this month. If it's got horsepower and at least three wheels involved, it ticks all the right boxes in my book!
Until then however, feel free to see how a whole raft of cars fared when they got
The Champion roadtest treatment...
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