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Gavin Green: why Rolls-Royce shouldn't build an SUV

Gavin Green: why Rolls-Royce shouldn't build an SUV

Rated 4.5 out of 54.5

Gavin Green, 30 October 2012 14:46

Every once in a while, BMW hosts an informal chat between Leading British Motoring Writers and a member of its management board. A year or so ago, we parleyed with Ian Robertson, one-time Rover manager, now done good (he’s head of sales and marketing for BMW, and is probably Britain’s most influential car company executive). This time the man in ...

Mulling modded guilty pleasures of the 1980s

Mulling modded guilty pleasures of the 1980s

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Chris Chilton, 19 June 2012 09:56

If, like many of us at CAR, you discovered your four-wheeled passion while growing up in the 1980s, you might remember lusting over some dubiously modified German Porsches and Mercs. Bram Corts does. He’s the man behind 1000SEL.com, a brilliant guide to the wheeled equivalent of the shoulder pad, and the inspiration behind our Top 10 back page in the ...

Why Maybach closed: they 'lost €330,000 on each one'

Why Maybach closed: they 'lost €330,000 on each one'

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Georg Kacher, 08 February 2012 10:04

After seven years and only 3000 sold units, the Maybach brand will bite the dust in 2013. It its place, Mercedes will challenge Bentley and Rolls Royce with up to seven different luxury cars derived from the next S-class due, you guessed it, in 2013. What went wrong with Maybach? Was it the name, the product, the positioning, the price? ...

Ben Barry sends his wife on a trackday

Ben Barry sends his wife on a trackday

Rated 4 out of 54

Ben Barry, 14 March 2011 14:15

My wife has spent the best part of a decade patiently standing at the side of race tracks from Mondello to the Nurburgring, watching as I have a riotous old time, poised with the record button on our camera, holding a screaming child, being sunburned and/or lashed with rain. So it seemed only fair to turn the tables and let ...

Learning to draw all over again in the Audi A8

Learning to draw all over again in the Audi A8

Rated 3 out of 53

Ben Pulman, 27 May 2010 10:15

So, you’re lucky to head home for the night in Audi’s new A8, and set about trying to impress your girlfriend with its multitude of gadgets. Our car had everything from heated and cooled seats, night vision with pedestrian recognition, headlights that work with the sat-nav, adaptive cruise control that can brake the A8 to a standstill, plus speed limit ...

The Arthur Daley Jags and why it’s not all glamour

The Arthur Daley Jags and why it’s not all glamour

Rated 3 out of 53

Chris Chilton, 21 May 2010 12:00

Think Jags are all about glamour? If you’d asked me 15 years ago I’d have had a slightly different view. Before getting into the magazine business I spent a couple of years toiling away in a distinctly downmarket back street garage. It was just the two of us there: me, who’d dropped out of college to change subframes on Metros ...

Stephen Bayley on the new design mantra transforming Jaguar

Stephen Bayley on the new design mantra transforming Jaguar

Rated 3 out of 53

Stephen Bayley, 21 May 2010 12:00

XJ is ‘Experimental Jaguar’, a programme launched in 1964 which resulted in the 1968 car that was routinely described as the-most-beautiful-saloon-in-the-world. Indeed, it was so successful an experiment that the imaginations of those charged with designing its successor were hobbled: when the outgoing XJ was launched in Paris there were gasps from the crowd.  And they were not gasps of ...

Never judge a new car until you’ve seen it

Never judge a new car until you’ve seen it

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Andrew Franklin, 13 July 2009 10:15

I always follow the rule that you should never make a call on a new car’s looks, style and proportions until you’ve actually walked around it and seen it on the move. It’s said the camera never lies but, as a designer, I know that it’s pretty effective at camouflaging the truth.  I say this having just returned from the ...

CAR’s South American Rolls road trip stars on TV

CAR’s South American Rolls road trip stars on TV

Rated 3 out of 53

Tim Pollard, 16 April 2009 09:28

Last year CAR Magazine contributor Jeremy Hart drove a Rolls-Royce Phantom across South America from Chile to Argentina – writing a daily blog as he pounded across the dramatic scenery in a £300,000 limo. Now you can see the road trip on television as the UK digital channel ITV4 airs the adventure for the first time this Sunday 19 April ...

Rolls-Royce Phantom adventure across South America

Rolls-Royce Phantom adventure across South America

Rated 4 out of 54

Jeremy Hart, 04 June 2008 11:00

Day 14 – The finale of our 5000-mile Rolls-Royce adventure: Chile to Argentina. Nothing is ever predictable in South America, especially when you travel by Rolls-Royce Phantom. Just as getting into Chile had been a trial of immense diplomatic challenges, so too was getting out. The border lies high in the Andes, two hours out of San Pedro. But customs ...

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