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Ben Barry's Caterham Seven drift day blog

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 ...

Mercedes SL – Ben Barry drives the 1980s R107 SL

Ben Barry, 15 March 2012 07:00

They don’t build a new Mercedes SL very often, and at the launch of its latest roadster Mercedes wheeled out beautiful examples of the six models that have emerged over the previous six decades. Then the minders – the people who lovingly care for these cars day after day – simply handed over the keys to random people they hadn’t ...

Ferrari click-clack manual transmissions, RIP

Tim Pollard, 11 November 2011 11:30

Ferrari recently passed a quiet milestone that's bound to upset traditionalists: Maranello no longer offers Brits the choice of a manual transmission in its supercars. Those wonderful, exposed metal gates with polished gearsticks click-clacking from cog to cog are no more. And that makes us a little bit sad. Whatever happened to the Ferrari manual? With the arrival of the ...

Which is your secondhand car bargain of the decade?

Tim Pollard, 19 May 2011 10:10

The new June 2011 issue of CAR Magazine out this week names our 54 used car bargains of the decade. It's an issue that routinely vexes any car enthusiast; who hasn't idly whiled away the odd hour or two on Auto Trader or Pistonheads, window shopping their next car? So we set about researching the best prices vs thrills, depreciation ...

A 205mph Bentley on ice – the video

Jethro Bovingdon, 17 March 2011 13:00

In the April 2011 issue of CAR – out now – we’ve joined Bentley on the hazardous frozen waters of the Baltic Sea to watch Juha Kankkunen set a new world speed record on ice. Kankkunen’s vehicle of choice was a Bentley Supersports Convertible: the twin-turbo 6.0-litre W12 boasts 621bhp to power it to a 205.48mph record, and the air ...

Jethro Bovingdon ice races the Mazda MX-5

Jethro Bovingdon, 22 February 2011 18:03

Day 3 - Wednesday 23 February 2011 Another beautiful day in Sweden, another chance to drive around a frozen lake in a Mazda MX-5. Brilliant. We’re starting 4th on the grid and I’ve been volunteered to do the first 25-minute stint. The race is 4-hours in total but there’s an hour’s break in the middle for the cars and drivers to refuel ...

Anthony ffrench-Constant on fast Renaults

Anthony ffrench-Constant, 22 February 2011 08:50

Sorry, S-J, but, in the context of CAR Magazine's Renault Wind long-termer, I’m afraid most men will, indeed, continue to find flatulence funny until the day it kills them. Nonetheless, perhaps a brief explanation will finally put such scatological musings to the sword… In France, being dans le vent means being hip, trendy, cool… Much like Plastic Bertrand until they ...

Gavin Green on the cult of high-performance police cars

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Gavin Green, 18 January 2011 09:52

I’m all for the proliferation of supercars. If there were more Ferraris, Porsches, big-money BMWs and mercurial Mercs on our streets, our roads would be far more cheerful and interesting. I also generally find supercar drivers reverentially law-abiding. On the wide three-laners, Ferraris invariably seem to be barp-barp-barping in the slow lane, leaving the Transits and Astravans to provide the ...

Mazda MX-5 Open Race 2010: the CAR Live Blog

Ben Pulman, 11 February 2010 21:03

Mazda’s MX-5 was 20 years old in 2009, but the company was so busy launching the facelifted version of the Mk3 roadster that it didn’t really get a chance to celebrate the anniversary. So instead Mazda Europe is throwing its own birthday bash in 2010, to mark 20 years of the MX-5 being on sale in Europe. And just how ...

In detail: Gavin Green on the new E-class Cabriolet

Gavin Green, 15 January 2010 11:22

The fourth member of the impressive E-class family is the world’s first convertible designed as much for snowy Detroit as sunny St Tropez. Two ingenious bits of simple all-weather tech – namely, a deflector on top of the windscreen that greatly reduces roof-down cabin buffeting, and neck heaters – enable you to drive top down, no matter what the weather. ...

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