Prepare for the worst, hope for the best. It’s generally sound advice, but especially so when taking a road trip in the unpredictable winter weather.

The electric Nissan Ariya that will take British adventurers Chris and Julie Ramsey on a 17,000-mile drive from the magnetic North Pole to the South Pole is almost ready to roll.

Monument Valley is surely the ultimate backdrop to any great American driving adventure.

Haynes Motor Museum is home to the UK’s largest collection of cars and motorcycles.

In Detour’s book there’s no such thing as a bridge too far. Leaving solid ground to shoot across the span of suspension bridge is the closest thing to flying you can experience behind the wheel.

Between Scotland and England there’s a road so special it will make you hit the brakes and pause for thought.

Ellie Cooper’s debut book Waiting for Mango Season charts her two-wheeled trek across the Himalayas during lockdown on a Rusty Royal Enfield. Of all the epic mountain passes “The Cliff-Hanger” is the one that counts as her favourite detour.

The pocket-sized hilly area where Prosecco is produced remains one of Italy's unsung driving delights.

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.