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The pride and passion of Enzo Ferrari

Keith Botsford, 24 August 2012 09:00

Enzo Ferrari is a big man. Big, fleshy nose. Big, loose mouth. Big, solid body. The next thing that you notice about him is that he bears about as much resemblance to most car makers and the rest of motor racing’s constructors as an ageing lion to a day-long mayfly. And then, quick upon that, there’s the realisation that he’s ...

To The Batmobile! (CAR archive, February 2011)

Mark Walton, 22 August 2012 09:30

‘What are you going to wear?’ That’s all my friends are interested in. I tell them I’m going to drive the Batmobile from the cult TV series, and all they do is snigger and ask about my clothes. ‘Will you wear a cape?’‘No.’‘A mask?’‘No.’‘Underpants on the outside of your trousers?’‘You’re really not funny.’ In reality though, I was having the ...

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

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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)

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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)

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 ...

Gavin Green on copycat styling (CAR archive, July 1990)

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Gavin Green, 12 July 2012 09:00

‘A new Metro went by me the other day and, to tell you the truth, I thought it was a Citroen AX. And that upset me, because if I can’t tell them apart then what chance has the average motorist got? After all, I designed the AX.’Geoff Matthews is one of Britain’s finest car stylists. His Midlands-based design consultancy, Styling ...

Lamborghini Miura - the last hoorah (CAR archive, November 1972)

Doug Blain, 11 July 2012 15:52

So the Miura is dead. Beset by pollution problems, hemmed in by speed limits, noise restrictions and the ruinous cost of fuel, and finally knocked on the head by the safety lobby in several countries at once, the last of the great extrovert of supercars has gone.With it, of course, goes a way of life. One could almost say that ...

Twelve things you may not know about the McLaren F1

Tim Pollard, 06 July 2012 10:18

To mark the 20th anniversary of the McLaren F1, CAR recently spent an afternoon at home with Gordon Murray, the F1's designer. Don't miss the 10-page feature in the July 2012 issue of CAR Magazine, out now. Here are a dozen surprise facts you may not know about the McLaren F1, remembered by Murray. 1) Gordon Murray's friend George Harrison ...

Bayley visits the McLaren Technology Centre (CAR archive April 2007)

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Stephen Bayley, 28 June 2012 09:09

My first visit to McLaren was 1967, organised by a dutiful parent with industry connections. In those days the premises was an insanitary lock-up garage on a Weybridge trading estate. A boggle-eyed schoolboy, I was admiring the M6 Can-Am car. My boggling increased when, from out back, a cheery, chattery bloke emerged in grubby racing overalls, unpolished lace-ups, rubbing Swarfega ...

Cortina time warp: Ben Oliver drives the Ford Cortina Mk5

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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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