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Expensive lavish materials: the new luxury touch

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Tim Pollard, 28 July 2011 11:34

You might be more used to sitting on porcelain in the smallest room in the house and wrapping yourself in a cashmere scarf - but these expensive materials are making their way into the car world. A couple of recent launches suggest the trend for ultra-exclusive materials is growing. At the top end of the market, perhaps inevitably, but nonetheless ...

Thrustmaster T 500 RS (2011) CAR review

Dan Thornton, 08 June 2011 10:50

This is the Thrustmaster T 500 RS, a £500 professional-grade wheel and pedal set for the Playstation 3 and the officially-licensed wheel for the Gran Turismo 5 game. Can any gaming console peripheral be worth that much money? We take the T 500 RS home, attach it to the console and find out... Driving games: from toys to virtual motorsports Modern racing games ...

Honda's CR-Z: the first hybrid with sports appeal

Tim Pollard, 07 October 2010 06:21

Drove the new Honda CR-Z hybrid coupe this week – and it knocked my socks off. Every year I reckon two or three cars come along and surprise me. The cars that deliver the greatest shock are often those when you're least expecting it; not fancy-named Modenese missiles, but more more mundane fare. Last year it was the Skoda Yeti ...

Facebook in your car: friend or foe?

Sarah-Jayne Harrison, 16 September 2010 12:45

Bored with concentrating on the road while driving? Frustrated by having to do mundane things like steer and brake when you really want to be updating your Facebook page? Here’s the answer – new in-car technology from Onstar which takes the obsession with social networking to an absurd new level. Using voice-recognition, the system allows you to update your own status ...

Why we've all got to retrain for the electric revolution

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Chris Chilton, 17 August 2010 10:37

Think you know what makes a car tick? I thought I did. Now I’m no engineer or even a particularly gifted mechanic, but I’ve stripped cars to naked shells, rebuilt engines from the bare block up, changed clutches, swapped head gaskets and generally fiddled with enough motors to vaguely keep up when some boffin on a car launch is explaining ...

Bloodhound SSC video: see the 1000mph car in action

Sarah-Jayne Harrison, 03 August 2010 17:10

The Bloodhound SSC project team have recently shown a lifesize version of the car at the Farnborough airshow 2010 - and now they've released an animation video showing us more details of the potential record breaker due for launch in 2012. Fitted with the Eurofighter Typhoon engine, the Bloodhound is designed to snatch the previous landspeed record held by the Thrust SSC. Where the Thrust hit ...

Learning to draw all over again in the Audi A8

Ben Pulman, 27 May 2010 10:15

So, you’re lucky to head home for the night in Audi’s new A8, and set about trying to impress your girlfriend with its multitude of gadgets. Our car had everything from heated and cooled seats, night vision with pedestrian recognition, headlights that work with the sat-nav, adaptive cruise control that can brake the A8 to a standstill, plus speed limit ...

How smartphones will soon revolutionise car sat-nav

3.5

Sarah-Jayne Harrison, 20 May 2010 12:21

Ever wondered just how powerful smartphones are? Or how they could be integrated into your car? OnStar in the US is working with Google on new Android smartphone apps that are claimed to work seamlessly in the new Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid. The mobile application will provide Volt customers with new ways of using your sat-nav. For instance, when you're ...

Jaguar XJ and speccing your car at the App store

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Tim Pollard, 29 April 2010 13:43

Drove the new Jaguar XJ for the first time the other day: a 3.0-litre diesel long-wheelbase model that struck a chord with me for two reasons. One, I'd written the preview piece for CAR Magazine and had followed its genesis all the way from early scoops to motor show debut. And two, it delivered everything I'd expected after reading reviews ...

The brake recall and our Toyota Prius hybrid

Ben Barry, 24 February 2010 09:30

So, Toyota has added the Prius to its lengthy list of cars to recall, but it’s not – as has so far been the case – an accelerator issue. No, the Prius is being recalled due to a problem with the brakes, so far reported as a momentary loss of braking while driving on rough roads. Sounds like a classic ...

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