Ben Barry explores New Zealand’s epic coast-to-coast route through the Southern Alps in the cheapest hire car available.

There’s more to Italy’s Lake District than Clooney’s Como as Nik Berg finds out – with a little help from Maserati. 

Ferrari collector and Instagrammer @tipozerofourzero had always wanted to visit Maranello, so when he took delivery of his 458 Speciale, that’s just what he did.

Like all good things, it happened by accident. There had been no planning, no alarm set for an oh-my-Lord-o-clock start and no intention of driving into the mountains as the sun peered over the horizon.

The hotel is moments from the start of the Flüela Pass, with the very best of Swiss driving all within reach.

The engineers who blasted this road out of the Austrian mountainside clearly loved to drive.