Steve Fowler

Bloody hell. @tesla Cybertruck. #Cybertruck

For years I've been telling car buyers what cars they should buy – now I can tell them where to buy them. I'm excited to reveal the very first @carblah_ index - a car retailer ranking based on real customer reviews; nearly a quarter of a million of them. Congrats to our diamond status winners Howards Motor Group, JCT600, Holdcroft Group and Vantage Motor Group. Full details here carblah.com/carblah-index

A plug-in hybrid from just £26,995 – and yes, it’s Chinese trib.al/gmoFzZh

@the1andonlyjno @FIAT_UK @fiat @PerformanceComs Yet…

@SteveFowler @FIAT_UK @fiat @PerformanceComs Why didn’t they just call it the ‘Panda’, it’s not like there’s another car called ‘Panda’ so they had to add the ‘Grande’ bit? 🤷🏼‍♂️

It's official - the Fiat Grande Panda can make you happier. But in scientific tests, I was proven to be the most miserable of everyone who took part – by some margin. Of that I am proud and it makes me happier still 🙁independent.co.uk/cars/electric-…

@k9cbw @Jaguar Or Type Zero One - wonder if @jaguar knows?

@SteveFowler @Jaguar Are we meant to say “Type One”, or “Type Oh-One”?

As I predicted 18 months ago (not a hard guess!) the new all-electric Jaguar will be called the Jaguar Type 01. But I can’t look at the pic and not think it looks a bit crooked!

@ListerLawrence @Jaguar I wondered... I hope it's a delete option for buyers!

@SteveFowler @Jaguar Is that really on there or photoshopped?

What an adventurous lot we are.

@CamJHB @forduk @KiaUK @JaecooUK As always, its registrations... How many get through to real customers we never know!

@SteveFowler @forduk @KiaUK @JaecooUK Is this data from pure sales, or new car registrations?

Best selling cars in the UK for April and so far in 2026. Congrats to @forduk and @KiaUK for top two spots in April and YTD, with @JaecooUK in third place YTD, but slips from first to tenth from March to April - maybe supply issues?

One of these is the sort of robot you'll soon find helping out in car showrooms - can you tell which one? independent.co.uk/cars/electric-…

@AndyatAuto @afneil @hiltonholloway I can speak for journalists. No degree here! Some of the best automotive writers I know and enjoy took wildly different routes into journalism. Me? Via Eagle Star Insurance and dropping out of drama school.

I hear what you’re saying; I profoundly believe that you don’t need a classical degree to be in a “profession” or a “trade”. I can’t speak for journalism, but I can say that some of the smartest engineers I know started out as 16year-old apprentices - some became professional engineers other brilliant tool room tradesmen plying their immense learned skills. I applaud what you did to create journalists from non-graduates- but I’d suggest that what is important was and is their results, rather than their luck or otherwise on their options for early education. A significant proportion of our society don’t have the choice of going to university. In my experience, we lose a significant talent pool as a result. Therefore it’s really important that we value alternative paths, for example apprenticeships, with equal prestige of a degree path to either a trade or “so called” profession. James Watt, George Stevenson, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Henry Maudslay, Michael Faraday, Richard Trevithick, Sir Mike Rake, Sir John Parker, etc all started without the benefit of a first degree; but where would we be today without their contribution.

At The Sunday Times I inherited a journalist training course for graduates. I kept that. And added a journalist training course for non-graduates. They became just as good journalists. We’re not a profession. We’re a trade. The best learning is by doing under experienced supervision.

@O_E_W And journalist feedback!

@SteveFowler That looks like the Ioniq 5 to me. You will be glad to know newer models do have a rear wiper now. Customer feedback likely helped ensure that.

Message to car makers: I know rear wipers are ugly (and cost money) but they’re really useful, you know. Message to car designers: your clever aerodynamics do not keep a rear screen clean 🙄🤬 #bringbackrearwipers

@FoxH04 Any recommendations?

@SteveFowler Get some high end glass wax, water runs straight off

Arrive early. Catch the raw energy, fresh unveilings, and the buzz that makes car culture feel larger than life. Be part of the wave. #londonmotorshow #londoninternationalmotorshow #LIMS #drivingthefuture #LondonEvents #UKMotorShow

The average petrol forecourt dwell time is 7 minutes (yes, it is - I worked for bp). The average fill is circa 20 litres (200 miles). Charging an EV isn’t the same, but 100 miles in 8 minutes shows how vanishingly irrelevant the difference is becoming.

Big news out of China. Chery (Omoda, Jaecoo, Chery, Lepas, Freelander, iCaur, Delivan, etc) wants to be 'a citizen of the UK' and wants to help JLR be bigger and great again. Also would like some British brands... All this and more here independent.co.uk/cars/electric-…

@au_tom_otive @NIOGlobal Love the Firefly. It’s 2026 @WorldCarAwards Urban Car of the year! Coming to the UK later this year, hopefully.

Unexpected item at the charging point. (@NIOGlobal Firefly In case you’re asking)

@JohnBakerCharge @TeslaJigsaw Thank you John! Always great to work with the brilliant @GinnyBuckley and equally brilliant @VickyParrott 😀

@TeslaJigsaw Of course you we right to call them out and with your video they were flooded with comments. They did climb down on the latest episode with guest the great @SteveFowler watch from about 12:15 youtube.com/watch?v=yKW1bi…

Tesla's FSD is just “Fancy Cruise Control" according to these experts (and that wasn't the worst of it!) Full video below 👇