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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 ...
2.5
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 ...
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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 ...
4.5
Ben Pulman,
01 February 2012 17:55
Confusing, isn’t it? No, not trying to find your test car amongst a sea of identical silvery-blue BMWs, but trying to figure out the worth of hybrids. As the picture above will impart, this week I have driven the new BMW ActiveHybrid 5. And I was very impressed – it’s probably the best hybrid on sale today. But it’s essentially ...
By Andy FranklinCAR's art director Regular readers of this website are probably aware that I'm a big F1 fan. I'm also a big fan of great photography. Thanks to the iPhone and the development of mobile cameras, all of us have a budding photographer inside us, but few can make a career out of it and be the top of ...
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4.5
Gavin Green,
24 January 2012 15:55
A great British design classic is reborn next month. The new Routemaster bus goes into service (from Victoria to Hackney). It looks great, including practical jump-on jump-off rear platform. I can hardly wait to get on board. I loved the old Routemaster, especially riding on the top deck. So I got thinking about great British transport icons and came up ...
3.5
Stephen Bayley,
23 January 2012 09:23
To appreciate the resonance of the last decade’s revolution in BMW design, it’s necessary to understand the company’s huge historic debt to a modernist ideas factory that became the world’s most influential art school. 'Art and technology : a new unity' was the Bauhaus slogan and before the Second World War, BMW already had a department of Kunstlerische Gestaltung (Artistic ...
3.5
Phil McNamara,
20 January 2012 09:30
Mercedes will unveil the 2012 A-class at March’s Geneva motor show, although last year’s Concept A-class has already telegraphed its look. It’s a big deal, this new baby Benz. Out go two generations of MPV-after-a-boilwash, in comes an aggressive, wedgy hatchback that will scare cars like the Alfa Giulietta and Audi A3. So what's new on the 2012 Merc A-class? ...
The saga of Saab’s demise has been dragging on for so long it’s hard to keep up – and to keep caring. I for one want the company to survive, but each day there seems to be another update, be it a phantom bid from a Chinese suitor almost certain to be rejected by GM, or more news about how ...
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- 19 January 2012
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Andrew Franklin,
18 January 2012 12:59
So Senna - Bruno this time - is back in a Williams. At last CAR has predicted something right in F1! After a string of catastrophic predictions in recent years, we did in fact moot this idea in our Senna feature back in the November 2011 issue of CAR Magazine. This is a great move for Senna - and Williams. ...
