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Peter Grunert

@peter_grunert

Editor, journalist, etc. Consultant Editor @roadratmagazine - previously Group Editor @lonelyplanet and Deputy Editor @BBC_TopGear

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The Road Rat (@roadratmagazine) 's Twitter Profile Photo

For the next few days, TRR Executive Editor Peter Grunert will be posting from our favourite (indoor) car show, Retromobile Paris . On anything but a slow news day for Ferrari, he started out on the Girardo & Co. stand.

For the next few days, TRR Executive Editor <a href="/peter_grunert/">Peter Grunert</a>  will be posting from our favourite (indoor) car show, <a href="/RetromobileFR/">Retromobile Paris</a> . On anything but a slow news day for Ferrari, he started out on the Girardo &amp; Co. stand.
The Road Rat (@roadratmagazine) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Porsche modding guru Magnus Walker met TRR Executive Editor Peter Grunert Retromobile Paris and signed the 'Turbulenz/50 Years of Porsche Turbo' cover of our latest edition โ€“ he said he'd already bought his own copy and enjoyed it!

Porsche modding guru <a href="/magnus_walker/">Magnus Walker</a> met TRR Executive Editor <a href="/peter_grunert/">Peter Grunert</a> <a href="/RetromobileFR/">Retromobile Paris</a> and signed the 'Turbulenz/50 Years of Porsche Turbo' cover of our latest edition โ€“ he said he'd already bought his own copy and enjoyed it!
Keith WR Jones (@keithwrjones) 's Twitter Profile Photo

As convenient, rich and interwoven as online resources are, itโ€™s vital to support print media as much - and for as long - as we can.

As convenient, rich and interwoven as online resources are, itโ€™s vital to support print media as much - and for as long - as we can.
The Road Rat (@roadratmagazine) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Edition 17 of The Road Rat is now available to pre-order. This one has a sub-title โ€” โ€˜Tales from Japan โ€” that, along with the beautiful Toyota 2000GT on its cover, tells you all you need to know about it. ๐Ÿ”—tinyurl.com/vkxvsx5d

Richard Porter (@sniffpetrol) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My recent kei car obsession explained; I was researching and writing this history of very small Japanese cars for The Road Rat See below for link to buy the mag containing my words (plus lots of other excellent Japan-themed features).

Tim Peake (@astro_timpeake) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Incredible sight to see the Aurora looking so spectacular tonight even from the south coast of the UK. What a show. If you are awake and reading this head outside now. #aurora #Auroraborealis

Incredible sight to see the Aurora looking so spectacular tonight even from the south coast of the UK. What a show. If you are awake and reading this head outside now. 
#aurora #Auroraborealis
Brian Cox (@profbriancox) 's Twitter Profile Photo

As you watch the Aurora this evening, itโ€™s worth reflecting that youโ€™re getting a rare direct glimpse of the power of Nature. Those charged particles causing the atmosphere to glow came from a sunspot complex 17 times the diameter of Earth and traveled across 90 million miles at

David Yelland (@davidyelland) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It is just possible 2024 will still prove a great year for liberal democracyโ€ฆ. Labour won a fair fight in the UK, Kamala-Walz are on a roll and the mood in Britain is shifting from riots to solid mass support of multicultural decency.

Richard Porter (@sniffpetrol) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Wish I was still writing Sniff Petrol so I could post a fake column from a ruddy faced man whoโ€™s FURIOUS because Jag released a teaser that wasnโ€™t just Stirling Moss wanking off a bulldog in a BRG E-Type next to a Supermarine Spitfire and who has never bought a Jag in his life.

Richard Porter (@sniffpetrol) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This photo is claimed to show Nigel Mansell in a Capri at the 1987 British Grand Prix. But why would the Mansell of '87 be in a grassy car park with a load of people in an obsolete Ford? It's not even a 280. I suspect it's a Nige lookalike. Can anyone confirm?

This photo is claimed to show Nigel Mansell in a Capri at the 1987 British Grand Prix. But why would the Mansell of '87 be in a grassy car park with a load of people in an obsolete Ford? It's not even a 280. I suspect it's a Nige lookalike. Can anyone confirm?
Ros Atkins (@bbcrosatkins) 's Twitter Profile Photo

On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made a series of claims about the BBC's coverage of events in Gaza on Sunday. We've looked at the claims - and the number of misrepresentations and untruths that they contained.