Keith WR Jones

Bonsoir, @keithwrjones.bsky.social, regarder...

Still plenty to do before I’ll make the Autocar Road Test Record available to pre-order, but this is a small yet significant development milestone passed.

I appear to have happened upon a pre-watershed episode of Beechgrove Garden — behave yersel’, Brian.

Data-checking progress for the Autocar Road Test Record book continues to gain momentum.

Note to self: just as it’s not a good idea to look down when at a great height, it probably wasn’t wise to count how many of the spreadsheet’s cells contained something or other.

Beanstretch

Sounds familiar… Although I increasingly don’t bother turning ADAS off these days.

Spent the past week with this Pistachio Green Kia EV3 — in short, it’s bloody excellent.

And ventilated seats in this humidity? **Chef’s kiss**

Ambrose’s side hustle as a Donald Trump impersonator has dried up in recent weeks.

This? No, not a magic eye image but a sectional snapshot of a database containing more than 2 million metrics collated from @autocarofficial.bsky.social’s 1920-2020 road tests.

Foundations of my upcoming Autocar Road Test Record now complete, the rest of the book build will be comparatively quick.

*Winks to camera*

Today I used a Citroën ë-SpaceTourer as a mobile office — because air-con — and seemingly had divine intervention beaming down on me

Hide and seek isn’t his A-game.

Top day in F1 yesterday with Lando on pole and his dad revealing his fondness for Yorkshire Television’s ‘Rising Damp’ with a Rigsby-inspired cardigan #MonacoGP

I hear you. Overall I do like the 4’s styling — if anything it seems more at the extremes of blending retro and modern than the 5 is.

I wonder if the original 4’s smaller following here than on the continent might mean people don’t ‘get’ it as easily, but then again it’s cool in its own right.

Just call me Hans G Lazymann.

Almost forgot: yesterday’s Renault 5 collection had the bonus of spotting a couple of pre-prod 4s.

Note the direction the wipers sweep, fellow geeks.

Almost forgot: yesterday’s Renault 5 collection had the bonus of spotting a couple of pre-prod 4s.

Note the direction the wipers sweep, fellow geeks.

Instant serotonin fix: leaving your handprint in a cat’s back fur

Yesterday evening I joined Messrs Cowland and Mayhead on stage as 2025’s Hagerty UK’s Festival of the Unexceptional ramp-up began with the shortlisting of the 50 Concours de l’Ordinaire cars and vans

Heartwarming seeing how passionate people are for mundane motors as well as archetypical dream cars

This? Just an orange cat using a tube of handcream as a pillow.

Helping make everyone else’s cars look even dandier at today’s Bicester Scramble.

#scramble ready

North of £140k and the wheels aren’t even standard.

Not the most profound opinion I’ve shared online — even with an admittedly low bar — but I do find the MG3’s curved C-pillar indentation particularly satisfying.

Look what’s back home with a fresh ticket.

#NeverInDoubt

#OkayThereMayHaveBeenASmidgenOfDoubt

Awaken from thy slumber

My assistant demanded I had a break this morning.

Opening the blinds this morning to the serendipitous realisation of how useful this Citroën ë-SpaceTourer’s going to be come hedge-cutting season.

‘Paint me like one of your French girls’