Let’s dance? Depends on your politics
May 1983 was all about dancing around your wheel-clamped car while bracing yourself for another five years of Mrs Thatcher, as Simon Hacker recalls –
A star is born in your trousers
From the pound in your pocket to the mobile in your backpack, April 1983 was a month for change and WGMW Simon Hacker tots it all up –
Olympic silver medallist on track for driving day
Jamie Baulch will be one of our guests at the driving day on 19 June –
Rising to the challenge
Dacia is absolutely the right brand at the right time in the UK market, brand manager Adam Wood told the Western Group chairman Ian Adcock on a regional event at Calcot Manor –
Leon in the Slaughters
Anyone for a round of Golf, SEAT style? Western Group members have been playing around and find its Spanish links are no handicap –
West Country motor museum expands
Haynes International Motor Museum near Yeovil unveiled the first phase of its extensive £4.2 million redevelopment this spring including adventure playground and there is more to come –
First of its kind safety app
A new piece of software to cut accidents among young drivers has been launched. Parents can download the Anti Performance Related Integrated Limiter software programme as an App for iPhones and Android users. Road safety will be improved because the software will...
Skoda bring a smile to the Western Group
Bowood House, Calne was the venue for the UK launch of the new Skoda Octavia and it was well attended by WGMW members, as some recall –
Looking back at the ultimate smoothie
Glen Smale digs into his Virtual Motorpix archives to look at the “ultimate Ferrari” –
Music Maestro, please…
Cars learned to talk and echnological wonders assaulted our senses in March 83, as Simon Hacker relives the thrill of it all –
From the chair: March 2013
The Geneva Salon headlines might have been dominated by the launch of Ferrari’s LaFerrari, the McLaren P1 and Lamborghini’s outrageous Veneno, but back in the real world I thought the most significant news was Peugeot’s HYBrid air technology that cleverly combines an...How to make friends and influence engineers
The sight of a German engineer fiddling with his cutlery as a table of hacks ignore him and talk about football is an embarrassing one, says Iain Dooley –
Big turn-out expected for funeral of WGMW supporter
Dedicated day for Howard Strawford at first meeting of the 2013 season and donations to safety and trust funds –
Fiction trips off Hacker’s tongue
Car makers do their best to inspire journalists by inviting them to far-flung places, but for WGMW member Simon Hacker, the backdrop for many Scottish launches became the setting for a dark comedy –
Roast lamb and mash, it was hard to digest some events of February ’83
From wedding rings given by one man to the world’s largest sheep roast, February 1983 was a highly eventful month, as Simon Hacker observes in his latest reflection on the events which hit the headlines along with the formation of the Western Group –
Scorpio had a sting in its tail
Western Group archivist Glen Smale ponders the birth, life and death of the Ford Scorpio, if you can remember it from 1985 to 1992 –
