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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 ...

Lotus and the power of confidence: rumours and PR

Lotus and the power of confidence: rumours and PR

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Greg Fountain, 12 April 2012 11:32

There’s a lot of smoke blowing around right now on the subject of Lotus and whether it has a future. I don’t have the inside track on this, but the amount of mud-slinging from commentators and the reciprocal mud being chucked back by the Hethel PR machine suggest something is ‘going on’ Anyone who loves cars should love Lotus, and ...

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 ...

How Swizz Beatz rollz: a Lotus Evora plus Chevy Suburban

How Swizz Beatz rollz: a Lotus Evora plus Chevy Suburban

Rated 4 out of 54

Ben Oliver, 10 April 2012 11:01

As rumours swirl about the future of Lotus and its boss Dany Bahar, one senior executive remains fully committed to the Norfolk car maker. The only problem New York rapper Swizz Beatz, 'vice president of creative design and global marketing at Lotus', seems to have is how to fit his ‘entourage’ (every rapper must have one) into his two-seat company ...

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