Motoring

Spear's Design for Living Awards 2012

Design can and should be applied to all and any aspects of a life well-lived and the wide range of categories in the Spear’s Design for Living Awards reflect this

Guardian: Bentley sales move into fifth gear in 2011

Luxury carmaker Bentley snubbed the economic gloom with a sparkling set of figures for 2011, powered by rising sales to China and the United States

Linley? Bentley? Absolutely!

Not too many days start off in a Bentley (or end in a Bentley, or indeed have anything to do with a Bentley), so it was a treat this morning to see and sit in the new Bentley Flying Spur with interiors by Linley

All Passion Spent

Nick Foulkes on how the wheels came off his posh-car fetish and why his dream ride is now a Moke

Very Fast Food

Meals on wheels don’t come much fancier than those dished up by the crack caterers to the McLaren Formula One team, says William Sitwell

Vroom With A View

Have classic car, will travel? Jonathan Bell on the joys of rallying across picturesque landscapes in faraway lands

Pimp Mein Ride

Talk about an odd couple. Will the unlikely creative alliance between BMW and, er, Steinway strike a major chord or a jarringly false note, asks Jonathan Bell

Life's Fine

When the Swiss police clocked a gentleman doing 290km/hr in a Mercedes, the penalty was always going to be punishing.

Times: Hedgies sue Porsche over VW 'lies'

American hedge fund managers sued Porsche and two of its former top managers yesterday for more than $1 billion (£620 million), in what may be one of the biggest damages claims ever received by a German company.

Best of British

The desire is in the detail, finds Zain Alatas, as a fleet of Bentleys ferry him around London

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 Spear's Salon

Books

Boomerang: The Meltdown Tour

Michael Lewis

Kyle Bass, a Texas-based hedge-fund manager who did well out of shorting the sub-prime property market before the 2008 financial crisis, used to play the international strategy board game Risk as a kid, which led him to find out everything about a tiny country called Iceland, which was a key strategic location in the game

The Gentry: Stories of the English

Adam Nicolson

How delicious the notion of the gentry is. How beautifully it shades into every kind of 19th-century fraudulence, into Eric Hobsbawm’s Invention of Tradition. How easily it locks on to the much later and altogether more middle-class idea of the gentleman

Zahawi and Hancock on 'Masters of Nothing'

Anne McElvoy

The Wide Blue Yonder

A new breed of Tory MPs emerged from the 2010 general election, and already some are making their mark. Anne McElvoy looks at two of Cameron’s cabal

The Diary

Mark Hix

04 Jan 2012

Amanda Palmer 

22 Nov 2011

Patrick Perrin

11 Oct 2011

Nicky Haslam

05 Aug 2011

Stephen Webster

06 Jul 2011