Tim Pollard

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 🍦 😎

@bouncerbeater Or a sheep masquerading as a hyena! 🐺

@TimPollardCars Definitely a wolf in sheep’s clothing

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?

@takeitfirsttime @bauermedia @ParkersCars @CARmagazine Yep. An FTE role but with flexible working baked in. More details in the job description: jobs.bauermedia.com/job/Peterborou…

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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 carmagazine.co.uk/our-cars/2024/…

@AndrewJ31680521 I think they were related, yes. And the Mazda 3, if memory serves… 🧐

@TimPollardCars Fantastic car. I think they used the chassis for the Volvo V50 too?

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! 👏 🤔

@StephensonC @cjhope90 True… but modern heated screens have much thinner filaments nowadays – in my experience they suffer from less glare in eg direct sunlight or at nighttime. Have certainly suffered some clunkers in the past though!

@TimPollardCars @cjhope90 Until driving into a low sun.

@paullittle12 @AndrewxMontague New Edge ripped up the rulebook. It was that pairing of progressive, modern designs with brilliant dynamics that really made mass-market European Fords sizzle for the best part of a decade or two 🧐

@TimPollardCars @AndrewxMontague I think Ford styling of the time doesn’t get the credit it deserves . Saw an original Ka recently and was suprised how modern it looked .

@downshep @AlistairWeaver Yep! 📉

@TimPollardCars @AlistairWeaver It was all downhill from there ! 😊

@totfinsol Now you’re talking. This era and typology of Escort was clearly 💯 😍

@TimPollardCars Stay off the crack pipe son.

@AlistairWeaver The biggest leap forwards I’ve ever experienced on four wheels. And so early in our careers, too! 🤔

@TimPollardCars Whenever I’m asked what the best car is I’ve ever driven, I say this!

@klongx Popular acclaim, critical acclaim, retail acclaim… a rare triangle of praise! No wonder it was so popular 👏

@TimPollardCars 10 years ago I had 40 of these at in one place we would display three at a time .... I used to buy them all out of car auctions..we used to sell four or five a week.. such good cars .. rarely got any warranty claims. The saloons and 2.0 were the only ones that were hard to sell.