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Remembering Tony Lapine

Remembering Tony Lapine

Rated 1 out of 51

Mark Hamilton, 03 May 2013 06:02

This blog was inspired by the CAR online forum thread Anatole "Tony" Lapine RIP. Many thanks to CAR forum moderator Kubrick and the other users whose comments informed this work.

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 ...

Cannonball Re-run part 2 (CAR archive, February 2011)

Cannonball Re-run part 2 (CAR archive, February 2011)

Rated 4.5 out of 54.5

Matt Jones, 17 August 2012 09:00

Welcome to Part 2 of CAR's Cannonball Re-run from the 2011 archive. If you want to remind yourself of Part 1, please click here. Waking up behind the wheel at 110mph is not a moment to treasure. Especially when Brock Yates Jr – veteran of outlaw road race, the Cannonball Run, and son of its founder – is shouting ‘TRUCK’ ...

Cannonball Re-run part 1 (CAR archive, January 2011)

Cannonball Re-run part 1 (CAR archive, January 2011)

Rated 4.5 out of 54.5

Matt Jones, 13 August 2012 09:00

‘Wanna court summons, buddy? You got it. Hey, Valleccio, take this asshole’s car. And you – get to the station.’ The fact that I’ve arrived in Times Square from New York’s JFK airport in under an hour is an achievement. A court summons within 60 minutes of leaving my Agony Class seat is, for want of a better word, miraculous. ...

Honda NSX driven by Gavin Green (CAR archive, August 1989)

Honda NSX driven by Gavin Green (CAR archive, August 1989)

Rated 5 out of 55

Gavin Green, 30 July 2012 09:00

The Japanese are about to attack the most difficult market of the lot: supercars. Domination of the small and medium-sized saloon markets, worldwide, has been accomplished. They can also check off the small coupe sector. And the big saloon market, never a Japanese forte, is about to get a worthy couple of Asian challengers, in the form of Nissan’s Infiniti ...

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, ...

Cortina time warp: Ben Oliver drives the Ford Cortina Mk5

Cortina time warp: Ben Oliver drives the Ford Cortina Mk5

Rated 4.5 out of 54.5

Ben Oliver, 22 June 2012 12:25

I am a young executive. No cuffs than mine are cleaner; I have a Slimline briefcase and I use the firm’s Cortina. By 1982, when it finally went out of production, the Ford Cortina had enjoyed a 20-year Tescopoly on British motoring. For ten years it was Britain’s best-selling car; in its best years nearly 200,000 were sold and one ...

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