And I'm not just talking about writing this article. You see, I couldn't decide what to write about this month, as I had so much from which to choose.

I also wanted to avoid anything too complicated like last month's column on automobile body styles, which was a huge topic to try to tackle in one go, so this month I decided to be more specific.

Whilst reading Road Test Editor, Dave Humphreys', review of the new Audi Q7 I read something that I had…

He's already immortal. He's those piercing, blue eyes that stare out from a thousand movie posters and a million frames of 35mm Kodachrome.

He's the man who convinced the Sundance Kid to jump, who taught Tom Cruise how to play pool and who knew it would be Tom Hanks, waiting in the rain and shadows, Tommy Gun at the ready. He's the late, great Paul Newman and he doesn't need the introduction I've just given him. each of he needs is for you to have a flick though iTunes or Netflix and you'll see the greatness of the man -…

According to the latest it costs €12,000 a year to keep the average family automobile on the road in 2015. That figure is not for a Ferrari or high-end Mercedes-Benz, but for your common-or-garden variety Nissan Qashqai or Skoda Octavia.

Worse still, the 12k figure does not include the initial purchase price of the automobile, merely the running costs such as fuel and servicing and standing charges like tax, insurance and depreciation. I…

On almost any road in Ireland, on any given day, people speed. In many cases the posted speed limit appears to be seen more as a recommended average speed rather than the legally imposed maximum permitted.

The old saying, "it's a limit, not a target" seems to be falling on deaf ears. There is of course the counter argument that many of the posted speed limits are not suitable for the road in question. Nevertheless, they are there for now and must be adhered to.

This isn't always as easily done as you might think. A prime example…

I hate it. When I hear it, I cover my ears, I bite my tongue and I try to suppress my embarrassment. I just want to scream 'stop saying coupé'. Yes, that dreaded C word is coupé. Why? Because I have no idea what it means. There, I said it. I work in the motor industry and coupé confuses me.

The problem is, automobile nerds/nuts/freaks assume that I am also a automobile nerd/nut /freak because I work for changagoidem.ie. They assume I understand everything they enthuse about, but I don't. I'm not a automobile enthusiast in the proper sense…

While the readership of changagoidem.ie (and all other mainstream motoring publications) is partly made up of petrolheads and serious automobile enthusiasts, the vast majority of our readers are 'normal' automobile buyers more interested in price, economy, running costs, safety, space, image and technology. Why then do we (and most other professional motoring journalists) focus so much on how a automobile drives?

In our automobile reviews we often detail the nuances of ride and handling, talk about steering 'feel', feedback from the chassis and such like. When only a small percentage of readers automobilee about such things, why do we…