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A year of new BMWs - by CAR's competition winner

A year of new BMWs - by CAR's competition winner

Rated 3 out of 53

Ollie Kew, 31 August 2012 11:00

Discovering she had won first prize in CAR’s competition to spend a year’s motoring in six brand new BMWs had Tracey Lee of Oxfordshire doing a victory dance mid-grocery shop when our associate editor Tim Pollard telephoned with the good news.At the end of June 2012, the start of an unforgettable year’s motoring began with the delivery of a well-specced ...

Subaru BRZ, Toyota GT86: not as drifty as you think

Subaru BRZ, Toyota GT86: not as drifty as you think

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Ben Barry, 12 April 2012 07:02

Where Audi is intent on creating cars for market segments that don’t yet exist, the Subaru BRZ/Toyota GT86 sports coupe twins do almost the opposite: they have a market segment all to themselves – the £25k, rear-wheel drive sports coupe market – because everyone else has abandoned it. In decades gone by, young tearaways would have had their pick of ...

Nine reflections after 577 miles in new Porsche 911s

Nine reflections after 577 miles in new Porsche 911s

Rated 4 out of 54

Phil McNamara, 05 March 2012 11:45

1. The 911 is still awesome at hunting down tail-lamps There's a savage sound as you pin the 911 Carrera's throttle in third, an 'awoooo' like the howl of a wolf. It's spine-tingling and utterly appropriate, because this leg of my journeys in new 911s is a pitch-black B-road blast across Salisbury Plain. Like American Werewolf in the west country ...

Moving cars at the Porsche Museum: a blog

Moving cars at the Porsche Museum: a blog

Rated 4 out of 54

Ben Pulman (lead image by Mark Bramley), 01 March 2012 09:01

I wasn’t expecting a dose of manual labour when I arrived at the Porsche Museum last month to interview Hans Mezger. And to deviate slightly, Mezger, if you haven’t read the feature in this month’s issue of CAR, is the man who designed the first 911’s flat-six engine. And the Le Mans-winning 917 racer (both its engine and the car ...

Behind the scenes of CAR's Porsche 911 group test

Behind the scenes of CAR's Porsche 911 group test

Rated 4 out of 54

Ben Pulman, 13 January 2012 09:36

In the current January 2012 issue of CAR Magazine, before anyone else, we’ve pitched the new Porsche 911 in Carrera S guise against the latest MY12 Nissan GT-R, BMW’s Competition Pack-spec M3, and Audi’s R8 V8. You can read Georg Kacher and Jethro Bovingdon's verdicts in the magazine, but here's a counterpoint from CAR's road test editor. The BMW M3 ...

The common bonds of a Porsche GT3 and Citroen EV

The common bonds of a Porsche GT3 and Citroen EV

Rated 4 out of 54

Tim Pollard, 01 August 2011 10:25

One of the huge privileges of this job is the sheer range of cars we get to drive. It provides some marvellous juxtapositions. I was reminded of this last week when I hopped out of a Porsche 911 GT3 one night and into a Citroen C-Zero electric car the next. You can see a cameraphone pic of the disparate pair ...

Racing in a Nissan 370Z: Jethro Bovingdon's race report

Racing in a Nissan 370Z: Jethro Bovingdon's race report

Rated 5 out of 55

Jethro Bovingdon, 08 June 2010 21:45

Racing always seems like a great idea when you agree to it. Seems like a great idea when you arrive at a paddock buzzing with activity and excitement, too. But later there will be lonely moments when you wonder quite why you agreed to strap yourself into an uncomfortable and unfamiliar car and try to drive it faster than all ...

Jaguar XJ 5.0 V8 video - we're all adrift again!

Jaguar XJ 5.0 V8 video - we're all adrift again!

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Ben Barry, 04 June 2010 09:56

Elsewhere on this site you might spot me hooning about on Anglesey race circuit with Jaguar vehicle development boss Mike Cross and a pair of XFRs (click here to see that video). But while I was there I also got a steer in one of the final development XJs – a long-wheelbase, non-turbo V8. brightcove.createExperiences(); The XJ's intellectually oddball styling ...

Gavin Green on the Porsche 911 he got for Christmas

Gavin Green on the Porsche 911 he got for Christmas

Rated 4 out of 54

Gavin Green, 06 January 2010 10:07

What did you get for Christmas? I got a Porsche 911. To be fair, it was ‘only’ for two weeks, and it was ‘only’ the basic Carrera. No fancy big rear wing, or turbo, or cabriolet, or paddle shift, or four-wheel drive. And that’s just fine. With 911s, basic is always best I have been driving, eulogising (and sometimes racing) ...

Lapping the Nurburgring at 100mph in the fog

Lapping the Nurburgring at 100mph in the fog

Rated 2.5 out of 52.5

Ben Barry, 20 May 2009 14:41

A little background to CAR Magazine's new cover story. We’d got the new GT3, sorted the Nissan GT-R, booked an exclusive session at the Nürburgring’s Nordschleife circuit. Yet there was one major component missing from our test: a driver. This posed a fairly major problem, as simply having a good driver wasn’t enough. We needed somebody who knew intimately every ...

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