My postman is a bit of a car enthusiast and knows what I do for a living. He put two and two together pretty soon after we moved in, what with the ever-changing range of brand new metal that litters my drive and the extensive array of motoring magazines he has to force through my letterbox. But I think even he was amazed when the latest issue of Autocar turned up. Weekly car mags are normally around 100 pages, but this particular one looks like a monthly. It’s four times as thick, and has been put together to commemorate Autocar’s 5,000th road test. Autocar is the longest running car magazine in the world, and while its staff test-drive half a dozen cars every issue, they only do one full road test, the carefully measured assessment of every aspect of a new vehicle that runs over several pages. It’s something rival magazine Auto Express doesn’t do and marks Autocar out as unique. Fittingly, number 5,000 is the Bugatti Veyron Super Sport – “the fastest we’ve ever tested”, according to the front cover – but the magazine has also reprinted 50 other road tests from down the years. It’s a fascinating read and I’d urge all petrolheads to take a look.
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