“It’s going to be a thoroughbred experience”, was the intro at the start of a launch drive of the new Peugeot 508 RXH. Intriguing . . . then it hit me, we had to be doing something involving horses. And indeed we did.

In the end they crashed into a mountain. But for a while it looked as though Stirling Moss and his co-driver Norman Dewis, from Church Stretton, were on course to ‘accidentally’ win the famous Italian Mille Miglia 1,000-mile road race of 1952.

Hundreds of classic car enthusiasts flocked to Weston Park to get a glimpse of more than 1,500 vehicles.

Hundreds of rally fans from across the country gathered in Mid Wales to mark the start of the annual Bulldog International Rally.

Shropshire Star readers are forking out thousands of pounds on personalised number plates – so that they can stand out from the crowd on county roads.

A major motoring event near Whitchurch which attracted 75,000 visitors in 2011 is to return for its fifth year, organisers said today.

I have become severely disillusioned by the parlous motoring skills of some of those who make their living as taxi drivers.

Shropshire could get its first ever ‘car club’ in an innovative bid to end the misery of rush-hour gridlock by borrowing a pool car to make short journeys.

Two cars owned by former Judas Priest lead guitarist KK Downing have gone under the hammer for a total of nearly £63,000.

Good for Honda, letting motoring writers drive an old-style Civic on the same indifferent Spanish roads it had chosen to launch the new one, being delivered to eager owners from early 2012.

Bridgnorth company Classic Motor Cars which took 7,000 painstaking hours to restore one of the world’s most famous E-Type Jaguar’s has been given a top award.

Suzuki’s swiftest Swift proved a big hit with youngish owners looking for an affordable (to buy and insure) warm hatch.