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Gavin Green on the world’s first good electric car

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Gavin Green, 09 August 2012 10:24

After more than 100 years of electric car dross, at last there’s a good one. The BMW i3, likely to go on sale late next year, is the first intelligently conceived electric car I have experienced. Rather than just a ‘normal’ car that is converted to run on electric power (step forward most EVs now on sale) or a ‘bespoke’ ...

Gavin Green on the hidden highlights of the BMW i3

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Gavin Green, 24 August 2011 09:30

Flew to Frankfurt a few weeks ago for the unveiling of the new BMW i electric cars, and very impressed I was too. Although still two years from production, the i3 (we’re told the concept is ‘very close’ to the showroom vehicle) is easily the most credible EV I have seen, not least because it has been conceived from scratch ...

Anthony ffrench-Constant on the Aston Martin Cygnet

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Anthony Ffrench-Constant, 17 February 2011 08:35

A first glimpse of this prototype Aston Martin Cygnet caught out and about in Mudfordshire recently does at least confirm that Aston Martin is pretty much spot on with the name. After all, save for that ballerina neck, a junior swan absolutely does not possess one iota of the grace inherent in its parents… I might, however, have to take ...

How to launch a Nissan Cube

Ben Pulman, 08 November 2010 11:35

In page 144 of the current November 2010 issue of CAR, you may have noticed two rather amazing shots of our long-term Nissan Cube. One is of the Cube in mid-air, all four wheels hanging slack as Jethro Bovingdon takes to the skies in our little white box. And the second, wince-inducing image, is of our Cube coming back down ...

Why the Cygnet is Aston Martin's ugly duckling

Ben Pulman, 18 March 2010 13:00

Click onto Aston Martin’s website at the moment and you’ll be greeted with a Cygnet colour configurator. Now all of us have probably specced a few fantasy cars in our time, optioning up Porsche 911s or BMW M3s to our ideal spec, all the while knowing we haven’t really got the cash (or any cash) to afford the real thing. ...

Not passing my test in my Mini 850 Traveller

Ben Whitworth, 30 September 2009 10:30

I took my driving test in my Mini 850 Traveller. In Zimbabwe 'passing your test' in the mid 1980s normally involved the handing over of a wodge of cash to the instructor and taking him to the supermarket to do his shopping in return for a signed and stamped driving license. I tried to buck the trend – and, literally, ...

Mini memories: why I’ve owned six old Minis

Nick Trott, 21 September 2009 15:54

I’ve had six original Minis. First was a yellow 1275 GT I bought with a smashed rear subframe for £75. The insurance cost me £400... It drove down the road the same way a crab stranded on a beach makes for the ocean. Then I had a black Mk2 constructed almost entirely with filler. Swapped that for a pink 1100 ...

Mini memories: Chris Chilton remembers a life of Minis

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Chris Chilton, 21 September 2009 15:48

Old and new Mini fans tend not to mix. I’ve had, and loved, both. This 2002 picture shows the caged-up BMW Cooper that I campaigned in the inaugural John Cooper Challenge while using as my daily driver. Next to it is my 1964 Mk1. After two weeks of 850cc tedium I dropped in a Cooper S-esque 1275 MG Metro engine ...

Mini memories: why my first car was a Mini

Ben Whitworth, 21 September 2009 15:44

My first car was a cherry red 850 Traveller. My elder brother and I pooled our resources and, with a little help from our father, we purchased the immaculate Mini from a friend. It cost $850 – we lived in Zimbabwe at the time – one Zimbabwean dollar for each cubic centimetre. And it was superb. It was big enough ...

Anthony ffrench-Constant's Mini memories: hitting 100mph and crashing

Anthony ffrench-Constant, 21 September 2009 15:28

My first experience of 100mph motoring was aged six, in a Mini Cooper owned by a girlfriend of my mum, on a stretch of the A1 outside Stamford [ironically, very close to CAR’s current HQ – Ed]. It took an achingly long run-up to achieve an indicated tonne on that wok-sized speedo… Though the racket was mighty, I suspect the ...

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