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Download CAR wallpapers for your new Facebook page

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Sarah-Jayne Harrison, 10 February 2012 14:04

In the near future Facebook will introduce a new profile page layout for all users. Included in their new update will be the addition of cover images where you can personalise your page – and this is where CAR may be able to help.  We've taken a selection of fantastic images and tailored them to fit at the top of ...

Driving a Land Rover Disco support car in Africa

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Ben Oliver, 09 February 2012 10:20

I’m sure this won’t come as a surprise to you, but the glorious white Jaguar XJ Supersports in which Andy Green and I did the first high-speed recce run on the Hakskeen Pan wasn’t the only car there that day. You might have read the story in the current, February issue of CAR. This dry lake bed in South Africa’s ...

A lap of the Nürburgring in the snow

Rated 4.5 out of 54.5

Ben Pulman, 08 February 2012 15:45

Back in the summer of 2009 CAR pulled together an exclusive twin test of the new Porsche 911 GT3 and Nissan’s new GT-R Spec V. And at the same time, to get to the bottom of Nissan’s claims of how fast the standard R35 GT-R was around the Nürburgring (a Porsche official had claimed the times were nonsense) we put one against ...

Why Maybach closed: they 'lost €330,000 on each one'

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Georg Kacher, 08 February 2012 10:04

After seven years and only 3000 sold units, the Maybach brand will bite the dust in 2013. It its place, Mercedes will challenge Bentley and Rolls Royce with up to seven different luxury cars derived from the next S-class due, you guessed it, in 2013. What went wrong with Maybach? Was it the name, the product, the positioning, the price? ...

Gavin Green on the new, and old, Honda NSX

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Gavin Green, 07 February 2012 09:00

The late great Russell Bulgin – a good friend and a fellow CAR contributor – was once asked what was his favourite car. His reply was: ‘the newest’. Russell was always modern and cutting edge. He did not like retro or nostalgic cars (or ‘classic cars’ for that matter, at least not as road transport – although they were fine ...

Georg Kacher looks back at the 2012 Detroit auto show

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Georg Kacher, 06 February 2012 10:38

More glitz and glamour, plenty of new concepts, growing confidence and a greater diversity in terms of engineering and design - this was the essence of the 2012 Detroit auto show, aka the North American International Auto Show. Ford at the 2012 NAIAS The Big Three in particular had regained an encouraging portion of their former strength. Ford's new Fusion ...

Saab vs Volvo: a tale of two Swedes

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Greg Fountain, 06 February 2012 09:17

So, the Swedish car industry has been cut in half by the death of Saab, has it? That’s what I’ve been reading in various places. And it’s easy to see why: Saab and Volvo are globally iconic brands, and the only two Swedish car makers anybody’s really heard of. Not only that, they do have some stirring similarities. They are ...

Updated! Do we really need winter tyres in the UK?

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Tim Pollard, 06 February 2012 08:55

Should you fit winter tyres? After several hard winters [global readers note; harsh in the moderate British sense], we thought it prudent to try out some of the winter tyre programmes offered by car manufacturers here in the UK. So CAR fitted winter tyres to a selection of our long-term test vehicles: the BMW M5, Audi A1 and Infiniti M35h to ...

Is Lamborghini too extreme for its own good?

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Phil McNamara, 03 February 2012 09:41

Ferrari and Rolls-Royce recorded their greatest ever sales in 2011, Bentley’s volumes are back to pre-recession levels, but what about the world’s self-proclaimed super-sports car company, Lamborghini? Well, 2011 sales were up 26% on 2010, but 1602 sales is still a long way short of Sant’Agata’s record: 2430 supercars in 2008. This raises a very pertinent question: is Lamborghini too extreme ...

Why an old Honda Civic beats the new 2012 one

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Ben Barry, 02 February 2012 14:11

A few months back, I tested the all-new Civic and wasn’t particularly impressed: I didn’t like the too-high seating position, the oddly weighted steering, the coarse diesel engine, the still-dubious rear visibility and, crucially, the lack of any discernible fun factor. There was no doubt about it in my mind: I’d buy a VW Golf instead. Then, in January, I took ...

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