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The ultimate car geek tour: we go inside Ferrari

The ultimate car geek tour: we go inside Ferrari

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Ben Barry, 09 May 2013 16:00

Tues, 7 May. 9.30pm After a flight out of Heathrow and a bewildering detour on a bus, we finally arrive in Maranello for a late dinner at the Museo Ferrari. There's bags of interesting stuff here, but the 288 GTO-based GTO Evoluzione [left] catches my eye - it never raced, but fed into the F40 project – as does the F40 Competizione, ...

Ben Barry's Caterham Seven drift day blog

Ben Barry's Caterham Seven drift day blog

Rated 3 out of 53

Ben Barry, 10 July 2012 09:17

A couple of months back I was lucky enough to drive the Caterham SP300R, a slicks and wings racer that bridges the gulf between a Caterham 7 and an F1 car. But before I was allowed to drive the SP300R on track, Caterham sent me out in a 7 to get a feel for things. Truth be told, I haven’t ...

Subaru BRZ, Toyota GT86: not as drifty as you think

Subaru BRZ, Toyota GT86: not as drifty as you think

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Ben Barry, 12 April 2012 07:02

Where Audi is intent on creating cars for market segments that don’t yet exist, the Subaru BRZ/Toyota GT86 sports coupe twins do almost the opposite: they have a market segment all to themselves – the £25k, rear-wheel drive sports coupe market – because everyone else has abandoned it. In decades gone by, young tearaways would have had their pick of ...

Mercedes SL – Ben Barry drives the 1980s R107 SL

Mercedes SL – Ben Barry drives the 1980s R107 SL

Rated 3 out of 53

Ben Barry, 15 March 2012 07:00

They don’t build a new Mercedes SL very often, and at the launch of its latest roadster Mercedes wheeled out beautiful examples of the six models that have emerged over the previous six decades. Then the minders – the people who lovingly care for these cars day after day – simply handed over the keys to random people they hadn’t ...

Why an old Honda Civic beats the new 2012 one

Why an old Honda Civic beats the new 2012 one

Rated 4 out of 54

Ben Barry, 02 February 2012 14:11

A few months back, I tested the all-new Civic and wasn’t particularly impressed: I didn’t like the too-high seating position, the oddly weighted steering, the coarse diesel engine, the still-dubious rear visibility and, crucially, the lack of any discernible fun factor. There was no doubt about it in my mind: I’d buy a VW Golf instead. Then, in January, I took ...

Driver training at Porsche Silverstone Experience

Driver training at Porsche Silverstone Experience

Rated 4.5 out of 54.5

Ben Barry, 27 December 2011 09:00

The Porsche Experience Centre at Silverstone is a purpose-built facility that’s located just next to the Silverstone GP circuit, on a bit of land that once formed the super-special stages at Rally GB. These days there’s a swish showroom with a mix of new and classic metal, a restaurant, a short, twisty track that looks more like a British B-road ...

Inside Land Rover's top-secret test facility

Inside Land Rover's top-secret test facility

Rated 2 out of 52

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 ...

An unconventional test of the VW California

An unconventional test of the VW California

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Ben Barry, 05 August 2011 10:00

When my first child was all set for the big push back in August 2008, the due-date happily coincided with a long-term loan of a Volkswagen California – we had one in the office for months, so I knew it would definitely overlap with the birth. This was great news. For anyone who doesn’t know, the California shares its basics ...

Driving the new Snetterton 300 circuit in our E36 M3

Driving the new Snetterton 300 circuit in our E36 M3

Rated 4 out of 54

Ben Barry, 24 May 2011 12:11

If you’ve been to Snetterton race track in Norfolk over the last year or so, you’ll have probably noticed a lot of heavy plant machinery milling about. It’s all been part of a multi-million pound development by circuit owners Motorsport Vision to create the Snetterton 300 – essentially an extra infield section to add an extra mile to the circuit’s ...

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 ...

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