If you’re going to drive from Europe to South Africa, you’re going to have to cross the Sahara.  And if you’re behind the wheel of an old Porsche, you’d better hope luck is on your side. 

Eccentric automotive adventurer Ben Coombs crossed the USA from New York to San Francisco in his topless TVR.

Ten years ago Kyiv was just another waypoint on one of Ben Coombs’ madcap automotive adventures. Now he takes a poignant look back at his trip through a Ukraine at peace.

Ben Coombs heads to the jungles of Brazil for an impromptu road trip. Does he rent a rugged 4x4? Of course not.

A Rolls-Royce and a Corvette whisked Ben Coombs from Kazakhstan to the V8-Nam border.

Driving to Hell and back in a loathsome little car is just the sort of madcap road trip that only Ben Coombs would cook up.

This quirky French motor museum celebrates the romance of rust with cars unearthed in local barns in varying states of decay.

Ben Coombs flies to Slovenia, buys a very old Renault 4, and drives it home to the UK. Slowly.

Ben Coombs sets course for the end of the world. In one of the world’s least-likely adventure vehicles – a TVR.

Ben Coombs took a Jaguar XJ6 for a chilling trip across the frozen Baltic Sea, and suggests you to do likewise. Why? Well, why not...

The King’s Highway offers a biblical drive through the Holy Lands, says Ben Coombs.

Ben Coombs is best known for his epic 27,000-mile Pub2Pub drive by TVR from the northernmost bar in the world to the southernmost. Along the way he came across his Favourite Detour.