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31 of the best Christmas gifts for car lovers 2024

Published 09 December 2024
By Sunday Times Driving
From books and toys to car gadgets and driving experiences, here are Driving's top Christmas present picks for car enthusiasts in 2024.
Volt Rush by Henry Sanderson book review

Volt Rush book review

As Henry Sanderson shows in his book Volt Rush, the uptake of EVs will bring its own set of moral dilemmas, environmental and geopolitical.
Published 01 August 2022
Competition: Win Aston Martin Works tour and James Bond DB5 book

Win signed Bond DB5 book and Aston factory tour

We're giving away 10 copies of the definitive James Bond DB5 book along with a tour of Aston Martin Works
Published 02 February 2022
Two new motoring journalist memoirs are perfectly hilarious

Motoring writer memoirs are perfectly hilarious

If you’re wondering how to get your foot on the motoring journalism ladder, you could learn a lot from two new books written by seasoned...
Published 17 April 2018
Martina Cole, crime writer, talks cars with journalist Emma Smith for Sunday Times Driving Me and My Motor.

Me and My Motor: crime writer Martina Cole

When you’re a successful author, with a busy life and a number of cars, it can be hard to remember which model you drove to the shops...
Published 07 November 2017
Interview: Jenson Button on quitting F1 and his father’s death

Jenson Button on quitting F1 and father's death

Jenson Button’s career in Formula One was ended by a head injury. But it wasn’t his. It killed his father, John, the man who inspired and...
Published 16 October 2017
Laughs, insight and nonsense: The Grand Tour Guide to the World book review

The Grand Tour Guide to the World book review

You know you're not going to be disappointed with The Grand Tour Guide to the World as soon as you read the disclaimer, inside the cover.
Published 06 October 2017
Products: Steve McQueen in Le Mans graphic novel review

Products: Steve McQueen in Le Mans graphic novel

It's a common idea that a true genius must be a little unhinged mentally, and by that criterion Sandro Garbo, the artist behind new graphic novel
Published 10 February 2017
Rock Stars Cars book review

Products: Rock Stars Cars book review

Completed just in time for the December Christmas shopping rush, Rock Stars Cars is as much a celebration of portrait photography and ever-changing...
Published 07 December 2015
Products: When You Dead, You Dead by Guy Martin book review

Products: When You Dead, You Dead, by Guy Martin

Guy Martin is the Fred Dibnah of the Millennial Generation, with a similar gift of the gab and an equal passion for engines and engineering. But whereas...
Published 28 October 2015
Products: John Z, the DeLorean and Me . . . tales from an insider, by Barrie Wills

Products: John Z, the DeLorean and Me . . . tales from...

Nobody has yet produced a musical based on the DeLorean saga, though the plot would be no more implausible than most operas
Published 19 October 2015
M25 book review

Products: M25 A Circular Tour of the London Orbital...

Like turning onto a slip road to join Britain’s busiest ring road, you approach Ray Hamilton’s “biography of the M25” with a feeling of trepidation
Published 09 October 2015
Saving Jaguar by John Egan book review

Products: Saving Jaguar, by John Egan

John Egan's account of what it was like to steer Jaguar through the 1980s reads like a cross between a business manual and a thriller...
Published 10 September 2015