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Trip diary: how Mercedes launches a new S-class

Rated 2.5 out of 52.5

Ollie Kew, 20 May 2013 09:00

Hamburg is a long way to go to poke around a new car and not drive it, but when it's a new Mercedes S-class, it's worth the trek, if only to see the tech that'll be filtering down to Golfs and Fiestas over the next decade. As it turned out, I saw rather more than just that… 6.45am The black ...

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, ...

Should you buy winter tyres: CAR puts them on test

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Ollie Kew, 04 December 2012 11:11

Do winter tyres work? We've explained how snow tyres work in our separate story here, but now it's time to put them to the test. We've tried cold-weather rubber in a wide range of cars, to see if they really are up to the hype. The venue? Porsche's Experience Centre at Silverstone. The cars on test: a winter tyre workout CAR ...

The science of winter tyres: how they work

Rated 4 out of 54

Ollie Kew, 04 December 2012 11:00

Do you use winter tyres? After several cold snaps in recent years, Brits have slowly woken up to snow tyres which can keep going where normal rubber gives up. The UK still has very few winter tyres in use - just 3% of tyres sold in 2011 were designed for cold weather use - but trade bodies say the uptake is increasing.  Should you ...

We want your stories of buying a car at auction!

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Tim Pollard, 01 November 2012 15:37

CAR magazine needs case studies of people who've bought cars at auction – we'd love to hear your stories of buying secondhand under the hammer. Have you bought a car from an auction house? Perhaps stole a bargain and saved thousands of pounds compared with a forecourt purchase? Or had a nightmare, bought a dog and would never return again? ...

A CAR reader blogs on buying his E46 BMW M3

Rated 4.5 out of 54.5

Andy Downes, 31 October 2012 11:20

CAR reader Andy Downes has long lusted after owning a BMW M division car. He recently found an immaculate E46 BMW M3 and took the plunge. Here he blogs on his experience. Four years of saving, years of dreaming, months of scouring the classifieds, days spent travelling to see used ones for sale and finally, to my own amazement, I ...

How we photographed 50 cars for CAR's birthday cover

Rated 4.5 out of 54.5

Ben Pulman, 10 October 2012 14:00

Many months ago CAR magazine's editor hatched a plan to gather together the 50 greatest cars of the past 50 years to celebrate CAR’s 50th birthday. So we found a huge aircraft hangar, picked a week far too near in the future, and I made some calls and sent some emails. And then made more calls and sent more emails, ...

Paris motor show 2012 review by Gavin Green

Rated 3 out of 53

Gavin Green, 28 September 2012 00:31

That glorious British summer – of gold medals and diamond jubilees and Paralympic glory, of Wiggo and Mo and Hoy’s joy – is not over. It has moved to Paris where instead of meaty athletes and brave Paralympians, we find a new Range Rover and - finally! - an F-type Jaguar to steal the French and German car industries' glory. ...

A year of new BMWs - by CAR's competition winner

Rated 3 out of 53

Ollie Kew, 31 August 2012 11:00

Discovering she had won first prize in CAR’s competition to spend a year’s motoring in six brand new BMWs had Tracey Lee of Oxfordshire doing a victory dance mid-grocery shop when our associate editor Tim Pollard telephoned with the good news.At the end of June 2012, the start of an unforgettable year’s motoring began with the delivery of a well-specced ...

To The Batmobile! (CAR archive, February 2011)

Rated 4 out of 54

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 ...

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