Keith WR Jones
@keithwrjones.bsky.social
Automotive data fetishist丨motoring journalist and researcher丨car brochure and ephemera collector丨UK CotY judge丨usually unfunny
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.
August 26, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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.
August 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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.
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.
August 9, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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.
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.
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**
And ventilated seats in this humidity? **Chef’s kiss**
July 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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**
And ventilated seats in this humidity? **Chef’s kiss**
Ambrose’s side hustle as a Donald Trump impersonator has dried up in recent weeks.
July 20, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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.
Foundations of my upcoming Autocar Road Test Record now complete, the rest of the book build will be comparatively quick.
July 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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.
Foundations of my upcoming Autocar Road Test Record now complete, the rest of the book build will be comparatively quick.
Today I used a Citroën ë-SpaceTourer as a mobile office — because air-con — and seemingly had divine intervention beaming down on me
June 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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.
May 31, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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
May 25, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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
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.
Note the direction the wipers sweep, fellow geeks.
May 24, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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.
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.
Note the direction the wipers sweep, fellow geeks.
May 24, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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.
Note the direction the wipers sweep, fellow geeks.
Instant serotonin fix: leaving your handprint in a cat’s back fur
May 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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
Heartwarming seeing how passionate people are for mundane motors as well as archetypical dream cars
May 14, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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
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.
May 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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.
April 27, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Helping make everyone else’s cars look even dandier at today’s Bicester Scramble.
North of £140k and the wheels aren’t even standard.
April 16, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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.
April 12, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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.
April 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Awaken from thy slumber
March 24, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Awaken from thy slumber
My assistant demanded I had a break this morning.
March 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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.
March 22, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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’
March 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
‘Paint me like one of your French girls’