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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 ...
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Rory Smith,
18 September 2012 09:01
It's been some time since we've seen traffic like this on one of the UK's best known racetracks. All of the necessary evidence has now been submitted to confirm the 964-strong meeting of Ferraris at Silverstone to be a Guinness world record. Felipe Massa led the parade at the wheel of a 458 Spider, while the 964 cars shattered the ...
As always, the 007 hype goes through the roof when there's a new Bond film on the way, and with Skyfall set to hit silver screens in October 2012, we're already salivating over the prospect of another classic Bond chase sequence to join the memorable scenes from movies gone by. If you're a Bond chase fan, this Sky promo video ...
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Ben Oliver,
06 July 2012 11:00
We originally ran this story in March 2012, but the BBC moved the schedule. It's now been confirmed the documentary will run this Sunday 8 July 2012 at 8.00pm (BST) after the British grand prix. Now this is why we pay our licence fees. BBC4 has shot an hour-long documentary on Gordon Murray which intersperses his extraordinary 40-year history designing some ...
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Ben Barry,
16 May 2012 07:00
Some people will scoff at this, but I like to think of myself as a fair and considerate driver: I don’t undertake people, I don’t tailgate (okay, I sometimes give dodderers a gentle push out of the fast lane, and there’s another caveat below, but bear with me), I stick to my urban speed limits, and on motorways and dual ...
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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 ...
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Keith Jones,
27 October 2011 10:37
One million miles. It’s a barely comprehensible distance, isn’t it? It’s not like a frenzied Saturday morning trip to Ikea to stock up on Billy bookcases, this is some serious travelling. Experienced astronauts amongst you will already know that it’s further than going to the moon and back. Twice. But imagine you have to travel this monumental distance, what would ...
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Tim Pollard,
20 September 2011 12:44
Can you tell what it is yet? Yes, it's Porsche's answer to BMW's art cars. A new art exhibition opens today at the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, the Colección Goméz. But instead of using canvasses to display their wares, a collection of enterprising South American artists has used the next most obvious medium: the bonnet from a Porsche 911 GT2. ...
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Tim Pollard,
19 May 2011 10:10
The new June 2011 issue of CAR Magazine out this week names our 54 used car bargains of the decade. It's an issue that routinely vexes any car enthusiast; who hasn't idly whiled away the odd hour or two on Auto Trader or Pistonheads, window shopping their next car? So we set about researching the best prices vs thrills, depreciation ...
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Mark Hamilton,
17 May 2011 11:00
RM Auctions has the task of selling six Bertone-built concept cars at its Villa d’Este auction this weekend on 21 May, part of the Concorso Eleganza Villa d'Este concours. The cars were part of the Bertone museum collection. Sadly the Bertone museum was caught up in the bankruptcy of Bertone's contract manufacturing arm in 2009. Although Lilli Bertone, Nuccio Bertone's widow, was able to ...
