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In 1896, The Autocar magazine celebrated the lifting of an onerous 4mph speed limit by organising the first running of the now famous route

Cornish mixed farmer Nick Dymond started harvesting his crop of Extase winter wheat last week, with yields coming in just shy of 9t/ha, after crops

The 'horseless carriage' might sound unfamiliar, but 125 years ago this exciting new invention changed the world. As with many novel creations, coming up with a name proved problematic and this was one of the most pressing debates in the first edition of the world's oldest motoring magazine — Autocar — which first rolled off the press on November 2, 1895, and is now in its 126th year. The horseless carriage is, of course, the motor car, and over the decades Autocar has charted the roller-coaster development of these machines, from pioneering Benz and Daimler models up to the advent of Tes...

AD Imagine, if you can, a world without cars, a world where road traffic moves at the speed of the pedestrian, the pedal cycle and the horse-drawn cart. It’s not a silent world: the noises are just different – the shouting of street vendors, the clatter of hooves and iron-shod tyres on cobbled roadways, the jingling of bicycle bells and the whistle of steam engines. But it’s an alien world, where the streets literally run with pollution from the millions of horses on which the economy depends, where long-distance travel is governed by the tyranny of the train timetable, where a town on...