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Honda NSX driven by Gavin Green (CAR archive, August 1989)

Rated 5 out of 55

Gavin Green, 30 July 2012 09:00

The Japanese are about to attack the most difficult market of the lot: supercars. Domination of the small and medium-sized saloon markets, worldwide, has been accomplished. They can also check off the small coupe sector. And the big saloon market, never a Japanese forte, is about to get a worthy couple of Asian challengers, in the form of Nissan’s Infiniti ...

Gavin Green’s Greatest Ferraris (CAR archive, June 2007)

Rated 4 out of 54

Gavin Green, 25 July 2012 09:00

They gather on a gorgeous spring day, the sky a deep Bugatti blue, to pay homage to the 60th anniversary of the greatest sports car maker in the world. Nine cars, six of which represent the best of the breed, the others a trio of tempting real-world propositions. Appropriately all but two of the Ferraris are blood red – that ...

Gavin Green gets the inside story on Jaguar’s new C-X75

Rated 4 out of 54

Gavin Green, 24 July 2012 17:37

There are no 200mph-plus hybrid supercars on sale and then suddenly, like London buses, four come along all at once. The new Ferrari Enzo F150, mega McLaren P12, Porsche 918 Spyder and Jaguar C-X75 will all likely compete in the rarefied circa $1 million price band when they hit the road in a few years (probably 2013-14). But that’s where ...

GT86: spiritual successor to Toyota’s first MR2

Rated 4 out of 54

Greg Fountain, 18 July 2012 10:56

I climbed down into the cockpit of Toyota’s GT86 for the first time and thought for a split second I’d gone through the Stargate, emerging in the late 1980s at the wheel of my beloved MkI MR2. It put a smile on my face, I don’t mind telling you.The new car’s cabin is minimalist yet cool, with nicely tactile materials, ...

Gavin Green on copycat styling (CAR archive, July 1990)

Rated 4.5 out of 54.5

Gavin Green, 12 July 2012 09:00

‘A new Metro went by me the other day and, to tell you the truth, I thought it was a Citroen AX. And that upset me, because if I can’t tell them apart then what chance has the average motorist got? After all, I designed the AX.’Geoff Matthews is one of Britain’s finest car stylists. His Midlands-based design consultancy, Styling ...

Lamborghini Miura - the last hoorah (CAR archive, November 1972)

Rated 4 out of 54

Doug Blain, 11 July 2012 15:52

So the Miura is dead. Beset by pollution problems, hemmed in by speed limits, noise restrictions and the ruinous cost of fuel, and finally knocked on the head by the safety lobby in several countries at once, the last of the great extrovert of supercars has gone.With it, of course, goes a way of life. One could almost say that ...

Ben Barry's Caterham Seven drift day blog

Rated 3 out of 53

Ben Barry, 10 July 2012 09:17

A couple of months back I was lucky enough to drive the Caterham SP300R, a slicks and wings racer that bridges the gulf between a Caterham 7 and an F1 car. But before I was allowed to drive the SP300R on track, Caterham sent me out in a 7 to get a feel for things. Truth be told, I haven’t ...

LJK Setright on the Jaguar E-type (CAR - Nov '79)

Rated 4 out of 54

LJK Setright, 09 July 2012 12:33

My elder daughter has just passed her 16th birthday, and she never notches up another year without recalling my original E-type Jaguar. A month before she was born, her mother was taken into hospital for observation; and on that same day the car was sent down from Coventry for me to test. I was on my own, free to go ...

Gordon Murray documentary on BBC4: CAR's preview

Rated 4 out of 54

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 ...

Twelve things you may not know about the McLaren F1

Rated 4 out of 54

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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