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Anthony ffrench-Constant,
05 July 2012 09:00
The rules are simple: staying in the company of your car, just how far can you travel in one 24-hour period? Cape Wrath? Oslo? Bantry Bay? Sarajevo? It’s an adventure I’ve been itching to talk the entire staff of CAR into having a stab at. Then again, forget it. I’ve already won. Because in the last 24 hours I’ve travelled ...
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Nigel Roebuck,
02 July 2012 12:20
It is five years since Ayrton Senna lost his life in that horror crash at Imola. Few of us will ever forget how we felt that day, but how did the tragedy affect those closest to the man considered to be the world’s greatest racing driver? And now, five years on, how do they remember him? Something in that tiny ...
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Gavin Green,
02 July 2012 09:41
Just over a decade ago Russell Bulgin and a few close friends had a ‘last lunch’ in a Soho restaurant. Russell knew he was dying. He was frail, his grey skin the texture of tissue. He could barely walk unaided. The cancer was killing him. But his humour, his wit, that twinkle in the eye, were all still there in ...
4.5
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 ...
4.5
Ben Oliver,
22 June 2012 12:25
I am a young executive. No cuffs than mine are cleaner; I have a Slimline briefcase and I use the firm’s Cortina. By 1982, when it finally went out of production, the Ford Cortina had enjoyed a 20-year Tescopoly on British motoring. For ten years it was Britain’s best-selling car; in its best years nearly 200,000 were sold and one ...
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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LJK Setright,
20 June 2012 09:08
£540k might appositely be spent on a 540K – that late pre-war Mercedes-Benz which went one better than the McLaren F1 by being not only utterly useless but also devilishly handsome. Declaring my conviction that such money could be far better spent in other motoring indulgence, I received a perceptive reply from Mark Gillies: ‘Better a lifetime’s supply of NSXs.’ ...
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Tim Pollard,
20 June 2012 07:00
Today we launch the #CAR50 microsite as the digital home for CAR's golden anniversary in autumn 2012. It's where you'll find heaps of new content exploring CAR's history, from the cream of our 50-year archive to every single front cover since 1962. Click here to visit the #CAR50 microsite. So what's on the CAR50 microsite? We'll update the #CAR50 area ...
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Chris Chilton,
19 June 2012 09:56
If, like many of us at CAR, you discovered your four-wheeled passion while growing up in the 1980s, you might remember lusting over some dubiously modified German Porsches and Mercs. Bram Corts does. He’s the man behind 1000SEL.com, a brilliant guide to the wheeled equivalent of the shoulder pad, and the inspiration behind our Top 10 back page in the ...
4.5
Ben Barry,
18 June 2012 11:12
Last year, my parents’ home caught fire. No-one died or anything, and the fire brigade caught the blaze before the whole place burned down, but there was some pretty significant damage, so my folks took the decision to gut the house and start again. This was a significant event for me, because I’d lived in that house since 1976 and, ...
