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Ben Oliver,
06 July 2012 11:00
We originally ran this story in March 2012, but the BBC moved the schedule. It's now been confirmed the documentary will run this Sunday 8 July 2012 at 8.00pm (BST) after the British grand prix. Now this is why we pay our licence fees. BBC4 has shot an hour-long documentary on Gordon Murray which intersperses his extraordinary 40-year history designing some ...
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Tim Pollard,
06 July 2012 10:18
To mark the 20th anniversary of the McLaren F1, CAR recently spent an afternoon at home with Gordon Murray, the F1's designer. Don't miss the 10-page feature in the July 2012 issue of CAR Magazine, out now. Here are a dozen surprise facts you may not know about the McLaren F1, remembered by Murray. 1) Gordon Murray's friend George Harrison ...
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Stephen Bayley,
28 June 2012 09:09
My first visit to McLaren was 1967, organised by a dutiful parent with industry connections. In those days the premises was an insanitary lock-up garage on a Weybridge trading estate. A boggle-eyed schoolboy, I was admiring the M6 Can-Am car. My boggling increased when, from out back, a cheery, chattery bloke emerged in grubby racing overalls, unpolished lace-ups, rubbing Swarfega ...
An improbable stunt from Mercedes-Benz has landed an equally unlikely world record for the maker: world's longest golf shot to be caught in a moving car. Trying to snare a golf ball hit at 178mph might now sound like the optimum thing to try out in a £177,000 soft top supercar - especially when you have a deserted test track ...
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Ben Pulman,
13 June 2012 12:00
Ahead of this weekend's 80th running of the world-famous endurance race, here's CAR's countdown of the 24 most iconic men, motors and moments that have defined the 24 Heures du Mans.1923: The first Le MansThe inaugural race on 26-27 May 1923 featured 33 cars and was won by a Chenard et Walcker, covering 1380 miles at an average speed of ...
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Ollie Kew,
12 June 2012 12:39
It's set to be a battle of wildly-different drivetrain technologies at the 2012 24 Heures du Mans, which gets underway this weekend (16-17 June) at the illustrious Circuit de la Sarthe. With Peugeot having dropped its endurance racing programme due to budget concerns, this year's headline battle will be a straight fight between the dominant diesel Audis, and petrol Toyota ...
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Gavin Green,
01 June 2012 09:35
On the 20th birthday of the marvellous McLaren F1 road car – it was launched two decades ago at a Monaco GP party – I am reminded of one of its many virtues. But one that never received the praise it deserved. Namely, it’s superb engine presentation. Designer Gordon Murray wanted a very beautiful (ie not full of plastic gubbins) ...
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Ben Barry,
16 May 2012 07:00
Some people will scoff at this, but I like to think of myself as a fair and considerate driver: I don’t undertake people, I don’t tailgate (okay, I sometimes give dodderers a gentle push out of the fast lane, and there’s another caveat below, but bear with me), I stick to my urban speed limits, and on motorways and dual ...
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Andy Franklin,
21 March 2012 07:00
Did anyone catch the F1 season opener at the Melbourne grand prix last weekend? Of course you did, but what did we learn? The Mclarens look quick, Red Bull aren't that far behind and everyone else is pretty much close together. Well, apart from the HRTs. F1 in 2012: how good was Sky's coverage? I couldn't wait to see how ...
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Anthony ffrench-Constant,
15 February 2012 16:30
Given that the company’s Asian sales rose by 103% in 2011, news that Aston Martin has recently opened its largest ever showroom in Shanghai – a glittering, eighteen car-capacity blitzkrieg of arch-capitalism – is hardly cause for an inadvertent splutter of gently soggy breakfast cornflakes over the editorial pages of the daily rag. This particular Briton does, nonetheless, see it as ...
