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Tim Pollard,
08 December 2011 09:53
We were quite surprised when Jaguar dropped a 'scoop' shot of a disguised Jag XF Sportbrake on to its Twitter feed this week. Particularly when it had Father Christmas in piling up the boot with presents. It goes to show what a strange media landscape this is nowadays, one where car manufacturers – like any big business – try and ...
4.5
Ben Oliver,
02 December 2011 10:46
It’s easy to fall in love with a car in its natural habitat. After a week driving a Ford Mustang Boss 302 around LA, reporting the story on southern California’s car culture which you can read in the current issue of CAR Magazine, I boldly declared it ‘the best American car I’ve driven’. But would it feel as good in ...
4.5
Alex Tapley,
01 December 2011 13:13
Part 2: time to pick up our BMW E30 3-series bought on eBay The long drive down to Bournemouth gave me plenty of time to think about what I’d let myself in for. I kept thinking about an interesting comment made by CAR Online reader RicoD: 'Up to what price would you buy a car unseen?' I suppose I was banking on ...
2
Ben Barry,
21 November 2011 09:45
For CAR’s December 2011 issue, I was lucky enough to drive both the Land Rover DC100 concepts just before they were shipped to the LA motor show. The location, naturally, was Land Rover’s Gaydon test facility, which, stangely enough, was a first for me. I say strangely because I’ve now been in this business for 12 years, and in that ...
4
Gavin Green,
14 November 2011 09:11
A (cynical) friend of mine once commented: ‘You can tell when a trend has peaked. It’s when the motor industry cottons on to it.’ A little unfair, I feel. But, as with many generalisations, there is a grain of truth there. The car industry is rarely an early adopter of new design trends – be it colours, textures or materials. ...
4
Tim Pollard,
11 November 2011 11:30
Ferrari recently passed a quiet milestone that's bound to upset traditionalists: Maranello no longer offers Brits the choice of a manual transmission in its supercars. Those wonderful, exposed metal gates with polished gearsticks click-clacking from cog to cog are no more. And that makes us a little bit sad. Whatever happened to the Ferrari manual? With the arrival of the ...
3
Tim Pollard,
08 November 2011 10:42
Honda has unveiled the new 2012 edition of the Asimo humanoid robot. And this one can move around without being controlled by an operator, says Honda. So Honda Asimo will soon be running the world? Don't mock. We worry that Honda's R&D types might have just such designs in the long run. They say, for now, that the 2012-spec Asimo ...
4
Keith Jones,
27 October 2011 10:37
One million miles. It’s a barely comprehensible distance, isn’t it? It’s not like a frenzied Saturday morning trip to Ikea to stock up on Billy bookcases, this is some serious travelling. Experienced astronauts amongst you will already know that it’s further than going to the moon and back. Twice. But imagine you have to travel this monumental distance, what would ...
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Gavin Green,
24 October 2011 10:50
One of the cheeriest sights at the recent Frankfurt Show was the new-style Formula Ford car, modestly sharing stand space with the latest production Fords and concepts. The new single-seat racer uses the latest 1.6 EcoBoost engine, and Ford hopes its reinvigorated formula will become the major global series for wannabe F1 stars. In the past, Formula Ford’s appeal has ...
In the new November 2011 issue of CAR, on sale now, Ben Oliver chases the ghost of Steve McQueen through southern California, from his first big movie-star pad in the Hollywood Hills to the humble farmhouse he bought soon before his tragic early death. Acting merely paid for McQueen's compulsive car and bike habit: along the way, Ben meets the people who ...
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