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McLaren 12C vs the world - Part 1 (CAR archive, June 2011)

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Ben Barry, 24 August 2012 12:00

So, this is it, the big one. In a layby on an empty Welsh road linking nowhere in particular to somewhere else altogether sit a McLaren MP4-12C and Ferrari 458 Italia. Both cars are brimmed with superplus, fluids tickled to temperature, specs long since decided, minders long since departed. Finally they’re ours, and over the next couple of days we’ll ...

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. ...

Goodwin drives across the Channel (CAR archive, October 1995)

Colin Goodwin, 08 August 2012 10:00

They said it couldn’t be done. Colin Goodwin strikes out for France in Dutton’s floating Fiesta. Never thrown up in a car before. Mind you, I’ve never tried driving to France in one, either. And I don’t mean driving onto a ferry or le Shuttle, but actually driving to France, on a wet bit called the Channel. I’ve wanted to ...

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 ...

Bugatti Veyron in the real world (CAR archive, September 2006)

Georg Kacher, 27 July 2012 10:00

The Bugatti Veyron sounds like a low-flying chopper as it starts climbing the hill on the far side of my home village. The roar is muffled for a few seconds by the two-storey buildings that form the core of the settlement in the Munich stockbroker belt. But then, rapidly gaining intensity, the noise morphs from subconscious to ‘what the – ...

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 ...

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