Ben Barry recently drove to the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in a Land Rover Discovery. While the company's busy driving from its UK headquarters to Beijing to celebrate the millionth Disco built, CAR managed to snaffle a 4x4 to drive across the Ukraine. Watch Ben Barry's video diary in our player above as he drives into the perimeter ...
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Georg Kacher,
05 March 2012 14:30
Toyota Yaris1 point Okay, so this is the cheapest hybrid on the market. But as a car, even the green Yaris is not as desirable as one of the better petrol- or diesel-engined rivals. Citroen DS5 1 point Great design, great interior, great quality. Shame about the artificial steering, the grabby brakes and the unacceptable ride. VW Up4 points The Up ...
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Ben Oliver,
09 February 2012 10:20
I’m sure this won’t come as a surprise to you, but the glorious white Jaguar XJ Supersports in which Andy Green and I did the first high-speed recce run on the Hakskeen Pan wasn’t the only car there that day. You might have read the story in the current, February issue of CAR. This dry lake bed in South Africa’s ...
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Ben Barry,
21 November 2011 09:45
For CAR’s December 2011 issue, I was lucky enough to drive both the Land Rover DC100 concepts just before they were shipped to the LA motor show. The location, naturally, was Land Rover’s Gaydon test facility, which, stangely enough, was a first for me. I say strangely because I’ve now been in this business for 12 years, and in that ...
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Chris Chilton,
05 April 2011 09:00
But is it a proper Range Rover? That’s the question you’ve probably been asking yourself since you recoiled in horror at Land Rover’s decision to parade Victoria Beckham around at the launch of the Evoque. Okay, so we know the marketing reasons behind that, it’s all about reaching out to a new demographic with a new type of car. But ...
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Gavin Green,
02 July 2010 11:21
The most surprising news at last night’s unveiling of the handsome Range Rover Evoque (watch it sell!) was the announcement that Victoria Beckham will be a ‘Range Rover design consultant’. Her precise role is unclear although, as far as I’m aware, her only previous car design experience was asking Bentley to embroider ‘David and Victoria’ on the rear seat of ...
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Tim Pollard,
30 June 2010 16:27
It was sad to hear this week of the death of Charles Spencer 'Spen' King, the creator of the original Range Rover. His death following complications from a cycling accident was announced on Monday. King was a big figure in the world of British Leyland and worked at Rover from 1945, rising to become chief engineer in 1959. Vehicles developed ...
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Tim Pollard,
18 May 2010 13:06
Noticed something interesting about the psychedelic disguise on the new compact Range Rover LRX scooped by CAR today: look up close and you'll see it's a map of the world.There was me thinking they'd just covered the junior Rangie in a random pattern of colourful swirls more normally found on a toddler's sketchpad. Nope, it seems Land Rover's having an ...
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Mark Walton,
30 November 2009 09:46
Car journalists often discuss the greatest cars ever made, the best cars ever made, the fastest, the best looking, the most powerful. When I say ‘discuss’ I mean they disagree and come to blows, which begs the next question, ‘Which car journalist would be best in a fight?’ (My money’s on Ben Oliver – his nickname ‘Grizzly’ came about because ...
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Greg Fountain,
28 August 2008 15:00
'Timbuktu.' 'You want to go where?' 'Timbuktu. In a Discovery.' 'Does it exist – I thought it was a myth?' 'The Discovery?' 'No, Timbuktu.' 'Er, yes? I mean, I think so. But wouldn’t it be fun to find out?' It’s the kind of conversation editors of CAR have got used to having with their staff over the years. On this ...
