Reunited with my childhood car – this exquisite 240 GLT from Volvo’s heritage collection. An emotional moment, with smells and sounds, sights and switchgear that took me straight back to our 1983 240 DL and 1974 145 wagon before that. Bliss! 😊

Drove the Skoda Felicia Super roadster from 1963 this week: a 1.2-litre convertible into which I just about squeezed. With no seatbelts, I didn’t go anywhere near its 81mph top speed, but I can confirm it’s justly named after the Latin word for happiness! 😎

1982 meet 2025: like some kind of cruel mathematical GCSE equation – X1/9 x ID.7 👀

The sun is out in England, and so are the amusingly registered ice cream vans 🍦 😎

Had forgotten about the lesser spotted Nissan Note GT-R 🚀 💪

The new issue of @CARmagazine is out tomorrow – and it's packed with brilliant stories about cars. Like our first drive of the Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale, a Land Rover Defender Octa vs Ariel Nomad mudfest, and coast-to-coast banger road trip in £1500 eBay bargains. Don’t miss it! 👀

Mighty mini? Bullbar and badge mascots adorn this Smart. Rare to see emblems on modern cars. Do you miss them?

We're looking for a brilliant staff writer to join our automotive hub, creating expert articles, advice and reviews for our @bauermedia two flagship modern motoring titles in the UK @ParkersCars and @CARmagazine. Full details in the link below 👇🔥💪🧠 https://t.co/S8SC1bOZpC

Tacky road sign pun 😹 Spotted in Sturminster Newton, Dorset, during Easter getaway 👀

A JZR trike! Thought it was an old-timer Morgan Three Wheeler at first glance, but turns out it’s the one made by John Ziemba Restorations in Lancashire. This rarity fitted in beautifully among the honeyed Rutland limestone 👏

Quick go in the @CARmagazine Audi S3 Saloon long-termer. I’ve always liked the A3 notchback shape and it works well on Audi Sport performance duty, especially in classy District Green (an £595 extra). Fizzy and fast, sensible and suave. Brittle ride though https://t.co/FvL9LXmajv

Still such a progressive design, 27 years on. Hard to overstate how much better the Focus was than the Escort that went before, how it raised the standard of mainstream car dynamics and how it injected more progressive design into the volume sector. A proper game-changer! 👏 🤔

Bit of a rare one: only 322 Skoda Citigo E electric city cars are registered in the UK (a tenth the number of its Yorkshire-inspired e-Up VW stablemate). As a petrol Citigo owner myself, I can only imagine this’d make a cracking city runabout, albeit with a small EV range… 🤔

Twenty years ago to the day, the administrators were called in to MG Rover on 8 April 2005. Brand historian and sage Keith Adams looks back at what went wrong – and what could've been 🤔 https://t.co/qCMqBuqibm

Mustang Rally Now Baby… 🐎⚡️🎶 🏁

Honest people DO exist… Thank you to the principled driver who left me a note after lightly smearing the front of the ID.7 in a tight parking bay. Genuine details, all sorted with minimum fuss, a lesson to us all…. 🙌 😃

And, of course, Rome’s smattering of old classics: Cinquecentos and Minis and other bijou survivors provide light relief 👏 << 4 of 4

With special mention to the plentiful Fiat Topolinos/Citroen Amis and Toyota iQs on every street corner in Rome. It’s a city where they’ve grasped that small cars make more sense 🤔 >> 3 of 4

There must be more Fortwos per capita in Rome than anywhere else in the world… And China’s XEV YoYo quadricycle is fast catching on 👀 >> 2 of 4

Perpendicular kerbside parking: got to love Rome’s tiny-tot car culture, where Smarts and Twizys fit right in 📏 >> 1 of 4