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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A week in the life of a Nissan GT-R

A week in the life of a Nissan GT-R

Rated 3 out of 53

Ben Barry, 20 May 2009 14:35

I’ve been lucky enough to follow the GT-R story pretty closely over the past two years. I got an early passenger ride in summer 2007 at Nissan’s highly secretive test circuit in Hokkaido, Japan; conducted the first independently timed laps in the UK with a private import (I drove the GT-R around Rockingham one second faster than the 911 Turbo. ...

Driving and video at Porsche’s new Driving Experience

Driving and video at Porsche’s new Driving Experience

Rated 4.5 out of 54.5

Ben Barry, 17 November 2008 11:16

I genuinely learned something new about my driving last week. I’d been invited along to the Porsche Driving Experience, and took to the track in a 911 Carrera 2 with an instructor – Simon – in the passenger seat. The PDE is built on 10.2 hectares of Silverstone land next to Hangar Straight, but it doesn’t use the GP track. ...

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