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McLaren P1 & LaFerrari: witnessing the arrival of supercar royalty

McLaren P1 & LaFerrari: witnessing the arrival of supercar royalty

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Ollie Kew, 08 March 2013 16:40

The world premieres of the LaFerrari and McLaren P1 were special, rare moments: it’s a decade since Ferrari unveiled the Enzo, and twice that since McLaren stunned the world with the F1. Yet the planets all aligned at the 2013 Geneva motor show, where production versions of both supercar heavyweights’ latest flagships were shown, ten minutes and a few hundred ...

Why a new 2013 BMW M5 costs less than a used one

Why a new 2013 BMW M5 costs less than a used one

Rated 4.5 out of 54.5

Ben Barry, 21 February 2013 09:00

A new BMW M5 retails for £73,000, so it’s understandable if a would-be owner considers the secondhand options; BMW’s approved used scheme throws up plenty of year-old models for £55,000 or so, including my old longtermer . How is it, then, that the new car can be substantially cheaper than a pre-owned equivalent? Because of the vagaries of personal car ...

The Caterham-Alpine tie-up (2016): who benefits most?

The Caterham-Alpine tie-up (2016): who benefits most?

Rated 4 out of 54

Ollie Kew, 06 November 2012 14:00

Caterham now owns a 50% share in rally legend Alpine, and will from 2015 sell a brand new sports car co-developed with Renaultsport. It’s fighting talk from Caterham, which only sells around 500 cars a year currently. At least Caterham's sales are stable, which is more than can be said for Renault, currently in the midst of freefalling sales in the dead-on-its-feet French ...

Gavin Green on the indestructible charm of the Land Cruiser

Gavin Green on the indestructible charm of the Land Cruiser

Rated 4.5 out of 54.5

Gavin Green, 04 September 2012 09:00

Just back from Tanzania to watch the wildebeest migrate across the Serengeti and one of the highlights – along with the lounging lions, hyenas wandering into our camp, trumpeting elephants and stalking cheetah (not to mention numerous flights in little single-engine Cessnas from bush airstrips) – was our Toyota Land Cruiser safari vehicle. The Land Cruiser is not really understood ...

GT86: spiritual successor to Toyota’s first MR2

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)

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 ...

Twelve things you may not know about the McLaren F1

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 ...

Gavin Green decries the trend to ugly car engines

Gavin Green decries the trend to ugly car engines

Rated 4 out of 54

Gavin Green, 01 June 2012 09:35

On the 20th birthday of the marvellous McLaren F1 road car – it was launched two decades ago at a Monaco GP party – I am reminded of one of its many virtues. But one that never received the praise it deserved. Namely, it’s superb engine presentation. Designer Gordon Murray wanted a very beautiful (ie not full of plastic gubbins) ...

Why Vauxhall should be more about RAKe than Adam

Why Vauxhall should be more about RAKe than Adam

Rated 4 out of 54

Greg Fountain, 10 May 2012 11:55

Vauxhall has called its new city car Adam. Pause for cynicism. On the face of it, this is plain silly, a clumsy lurch towards cutesy personalisation in the face of wave after wave of the meaninglessly generic names/numbers favoured by pretty much everybody else. Is Meriva, for example, more or less silly than Adam? Is Focus? Is Golf? How about ...

Note to car industry: China isn’t the only market

Note to car industry: China isn’t the only market

Rated 2.5 out of 52.5

Greg Fountain, 27 April 2012 07:00

Nothing against China but it seems to me its influence over the car industry is becoming problematic. The world’s great car makers allowing Chinese tastes to dictate the conception and production of their cars is rather like the world’s great restaurants developing menus entirely to please Americans, merely because there happen to be a lot of them. The fact that ...

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