@TimPollardCars

Car industry PR. Personal account, with behind-the-scenes snippets of my life in cars, media, dogs and hockey 🚘 📚 🐶 🏑

 United Kingdom
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Week 1 at Škoda safely completed: been a whirlwind of onboarding, training in sunny Seville, driving the new Peaq and Epiq EVs, learning new acronyms and systems, plus connecting with the fabulous @SKODAUK team 💚 😊
Row of Skoda Peaqs lined up in Seville

ALT Row of Skoda Peaqs lined up in Seville

Skoda Peaq rear badge detail

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I’ll shortly be handing my Renault 4 E-Tech Plein Sud over to @ColinOverland, as I start my new job next week. So it’s a good time to reflect on a couple of months living with the soft-top Four – which arrived in the hottest summer of my lifetime 🌞 >> 1 of 7
Author Tim Pollard with hot-air balloon and Renault 4 Plein Sud at the 2026 Bristol International Balloon Fiesta

ALT Author Tim Pollard with hot-air balloon and Renault 4 Plein Sud at the 2026 Bristol International Balloon Fiesta

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Range is good for 200 miles and our top-spec Iconic+ is generously equipped, with 18in diamond-cut alloys, electric windows and tailgate, climate, adaptive cruise control, safety systems galore, plus 10in touchscreen powered by Google. All of that on a small Renault! 🙌 >> 6 of 7
Tim Pollard and Renault 4 Plein Sud at the 2026 Bristol International Balloon Fiesta

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Look out for the full story in @CARmagazine in due course, but here are a few extras from our visit to last month’s Bristol International Balloon Fiesta by the ever-talented lensmen Mark Fagelson and Joe Harding…. 📸 👏 🎈 << 7 of 7
Renault 4 Plein Sud at the 2026 Bristol International Balloon Fiesta

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Exquisite 1969 Morris Mini: petite perfection 👌 🚘 👏
1969 Morris Mini, front three quarters, blue with white roof

ALT 1969 Morris Mini, front three quarters, blue with white roof

1969 Morris Mini next to a 2026 Renault 4 Plein Sud

ALT 1969 Morris Mini next to a 2026 Renault 4 Plein Sud

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To whoever was driving this Lotus Elan +2 near me this weekend, I salute you 🫡
Lotus Elan +2, rear, parked up in Georgian market town

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Four hundred mile round trip to Newcastle to drop son off at uni. Mrs P’s VW Passat GTE Estate monstered the load lugging and motorway mile munching, obvs… 💪⚡️⛽️
VW Passat GTE Estate boot and lots of luggage

ALT VW Passat GTE Estate boot and lots of luggage

VW Passat GTE Estate trip computer after 400 mile trip

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A sneak peek behind the scenes of when I took the @CARmagazine Toyota Land Cruiser off to meet a long-lost relative: an immaculate 1983 BJ40, which traces its roots back to the original of 75 years ago. On-road, around a quarry and joy aplenty 😎
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Modern classics of Porto: some ’80s, ’90s and ’00s crackers still in daily use in the September sunshine 😎 🙌
Alfa Romeo 75 in Porto

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Fiat Barchetta in Porto

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Audi 100 Avant in Porto

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Rover 25 Streetwise

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Bumped into two exquisite C3 third-generation Audi 100s on my travels recently: this Avant in Porto, with another feat of engineering in the background, and the streamliner saloon in Berlin. Such influential cars 💡 >> 1 of 4
Audi 100 Avant, rear

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Audi 100 saloon, side profile

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Flush glazing, smooth door handles and a rakish profile kept the drag coefficient to 0.30 on the slipperiest base model – trimming fuel consumption, boosting performance and making for hushed, effortless cruising 🤫 >> 3 of 4
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Look how simple the design is. The modestly proportioned wheels. An innovative engineering marvel, right there! 👏 ⚙️ 🚘 << 4 of 4
Audi 100 saloon, front

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The @CARmagazine long-term test is underway: what it’s like to live with a Toyota Land Cruiser as a daily driver 👀 carmagazine.co.uk/our-cars/2…

We start living with a Toyota Land Cruiser just as fuel prices skyrocket... whoops

What a good time to be living with Toyota’s near-indestructible 4x4: war, rising fuel prices and when geopolitics get nasty...

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Peak Horse Car? Ubiquitous Land Rover Defender at the 2026 Burghley Horse Trials with pony number plate 🐴
Land Rover Defender with horse registration plate

ALT Land Rover Defender with horse registration plate

Pony number plate on Land Rover Defender at the 2026 Burghley Horse Trials

ALT Pony number plate on Land Rover Defender at the 2026 Burghley Horse Trials

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Behold: the 1.45 metre wide illuminated grille of the Renault 4 E-Tech in dusky action. One of the biggest one-piece, lit frontispiece in the car world, apparently 💡
Renault 4 E-Tech Plein Sud at dusk, with illuminated front grille and badge

ALT Renault 4 E-Tech Plein Sud at dusk, with illuminated front grille and badge

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