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As the beloved MG celebrates its 100th birthday next month, and the MG Owners’ Club mark their own milestone (50thanniversary) in October, Lancaster Insurance spoke to Christopher Shurlock, Area Secretary for Cambridge & District MG Owners’ Club (MGOC) and the Region Secretary for Eastern England about his delayed love...

Graham Courtney test drives the new Mercedes AMG GT 63 S E Performance and gives you all the numbers you need. What you’re looking at is the first performance hybrid from Mercedes AMG and a lot of the technology under the skin of this sleek 4-door coupé comes from Formula...

Workshop technician, YouTuber and current Lancaster Insurance Bright Young Sparks winner, Katie Bushell, has been into cars for as long as she can remember. Cars have been a passion for Bright Young Sparks winner Katie Bushell aka 'Wrenching Wench' as long as she can remember and with a VW Scirocco...

It’s not the obvious choice for someone who suffers from shyness or social anxiety, but this colourful Harlequin tribute has helped Amy Jaine Stanton realise her inner-strength. Here, she tells Charlotte Vowden how ownership of a conspicuous car can help elevate your confidence.  If the rumours are true, it was...

A daring rule breaker when it comes to testing the limits of classic cars and recently spotted on a race track in France with her Morris Minor; the only thing stopping Amanda Hazlett on her next adventure is running out of road ahead of her! After building her first car...

I took a chance on love and car roulette and won! Sammie Payne tells Charlotte Vowden how her partner Chloe and a plucky Renault Clio have transformed her life. When the Clio replaced the Renault 5 in 1990, it was the first generation of the French manufacturer’s cars to be named...

Find yourself covering interplanetary miles on the UK’s motorways monthly? Perhaps your job involves travelling or you just want to keep costs low – a hybrid might just be the ticket. There is an array of hybrid options available that offer a range of mpg figures, but what happens...

Charlotte Vowden takes part in her first road rally, in a car she’s never driven, with a navigator she’d never met. What could possibly go wrong? The biggest vote of confidence you can possibly give your navigator when rallying together for the first time in a road rally is to...

The humble Vauxhall Corsa. An ideal shopping cart for a pensioner, a cheap first car for someone who’s just passed their test and heaps of fun in a sleeper form, of course. In the next Me and My Project Car, owner and railway engineer, Jim Mccall tells Matthew Macconnell how...

Katie Hollingsworth is determined to get her temperamental Ford Cortina running reliably; they’ve yet to complete a journey from A to B. Here, she tells Charlotte Vowden why she’s utterly besotted despite having to have roadside recovery on speed dial.  The Ford Cortina was wildly successful in the 1960s and...