Of the many road trip reads that led me to a career in car journalism and my own automotive adventures, here are five favourites.

Detour added 52 new Road Trips, dozens of Pit Stops, interviews and stories from the road during 2022, and these ten have proved to be the most read road trips of the year.

With satellite navigation instead of a guiding star Detour takes a festive road trip to Bethlehem.

Christmas comes but once a year except for the residents and travellers of the world’s most festive roads.

A new online electric travel guide steers EV drivers on a road trip across central Europe.

Searching for a particular gnarled oak tree, said to have been The Bard’s inspiration, Samantha Priestley heads into Scotland.

Filmmaker Alex Bescoby drove 13,000 miles in a 64-year-old Land-Rover from Singapore to London, to recreate one of the world’s most famous overland adventures.

An un-modified Mazda MX-5 Miata has managed to complete a 1,000-mile road trip and hot laps of four British race tracks without burning a single drop of fossil fuel.

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.

Britain’s drivers are being distracted by the music in their motors, according to the latest research by road safety body IAM RoadSmart.

The riskiest road trips in the USA have been revealed by the American Automobile Association, and they’re not all the hair-raising hairpin-strewn mountain roads you might imagine.

Scotland has the North Coast 500, England has the South West 660 and Wales weighs in with 440 magical, mythical miles of the Wales Way.

Making a pit stop for food and refreshment on a British road trip doesn’t have to mean fast food chains and high prices.

Nine safari-spec Porsche 911s have just completed a 39-day odyssey across the Andes from Lima in Peru to Ushaia, Argentina.

Take an epic drive in the Sierra Nevada mountains, passing by ancient forests, Old West Towns, tumbling waterfalls and tranquil lakes…

After eight hours and 20 minutes Detour ended up exactly where we began. That’s because we took part in the IndyKA 500 – an epic endurance race at the Brands Hatch race circuit.

Better pack your thermals if you fancy taking part in the coolest rally of 2023.

A one-day dash across God’s Own Country leaves Nik Berg wanting Yorkshire more.

Slow Roads is a driving game with a difference. Speed is not of the essence here, simply cruising through the endless English countryside is the goal of this relaxing desktop Detour.

The man responsible for the creation of the fastest BMWs recalls a memorable road trip in South Africa.