A motoring journalist shares some of their favorite experiences of the year, including driving the new Ariel Nomad Mk2, a BMW M5 prototype, and discovering a unique electric beach buggy.
From testing the latest, cutting-edge cars and driving iconic classics to witnessing feats of engineering brilliance, the life of a motoring journalist is often fun and exciting. Among the motor shows, new car launches and interviews with the industry's top bosses, choosing a single highlight can be a difficult task.
We've tasked the Autocar team to do just that, and 2024's highlights of the year range from a European road trip to Spa to camping in the back of a Hyundai on the top of a Welsh mountain. What's your motoring highlight of the year? Share your stories with a comment below this article. Given how much Ariel improved the Atom for its latest iteration, and given how much I liked the original Nomad, you can imagine how much I was looking forward to the Nomad Mk2. Would the good people of Ariel have kept it fun like they did the Atom? Reader, they did, as I found on a crummily surfaced strip during an early fact-finding meeting about the new model, where it would slide benignly and provide huge giggles. It’s not a given that a new car will be more fun than its predecessor these days, but the Nomad 2 is one of those cars that you try and then very quickly makes the previous model feel, well, like a previous model. Getting the chance to show BMW M division engineers Dirk Hacker and Bernd Barbisch around familiar roads in Snowdonia back in July, in a BMW M5 prototype, felt like a special day, I must admit. But not quite as special as the one when I met the Mika Meon, a quite brilliant electric beach buggy designed and built very close to where I live in the Midlands – and, while still pretty new, also completely unknown to me. The Meon has a sense of integrity to it that its creator, Robin Hall, says is the antithesis of most Volkswagen-based buggies. It’s an engineer’s natural reaction, you could say – something properly engineered and executed, to right so many wrong
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