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Tim Pollard,
28 November 2012 09:42
Is it just us, or does the baddy in new Bond flick Skyfall look suspiciously like 007's own Aston Martin DB5? We've just watched the new James Bond movie and can't help but notice how Javier Bardem's distinctive mouth echoes the outline of the DB5's elegant grille. Well, I've heard them say the grille is the mouth of a car, ...
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Tim Pollard,
06 November 2012 10:32
Squircles are the designer's latest friend – the new motif which you'll find adorning many new cars, from BMW's ugly-as-sin 1-series to the new Fiat Panda. I drove the Fiat Panda TwinAir last night and couldn't move for the damn things. Squircles here, squarcles there. About the only thing left round was the steering wheel - and even then the ...
An improbable stunt from Mercedes-Benz has landed an equally unlikely world record for the maker: world's longest golf shot to be caught in a moving car. Trying to snare a golf ball hit at 178mph might now sound like the optimum thing to try out in a £177,000 soft top supercar - especially when you have a deserted test track ...
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Chris Chilton,
19 June 2012 09:56
If, like many of us at CAR, you discovered your four-wheeled passion while growing up in the 1980s, you might remember lusting over some dubiously modified German Porsches and Mercs. Bram Corts does. He’s the man behind 1000SEL.com, a brilliant guide to the wheeled equivalent of the shoulder pad, and the inspiration behind our Top 10 back page in the ...
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Ben Barry,
25 April 2012 11:37
Just round the corner from where I live, a lollipop lady used to turn out every morning and every afternoon to dodge speeders and shepherd primary-school children across the road. Then, a little while ago, she disappeared. I don’t mean she’s a missing person or anything bad like that, but our 30mph zone became a lollipop-lady-free zone overnight. For a ...
By day, Dyson employees are known for their innovative household products, such as cyclone vacuum cleaners and bladeless fans. However, it appears that by night, Dyson's 650 engineers moonlight as a wannabe land speed record team, judging by the evidence in this video above... A load of hot air? The premise behind this after-hours project was simple. Using whatever spare parts ...
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- 12 April 2012
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Ben Oliver,
10 April 2012 11:01
As rumours swirl about the future of Lotus and its boss Dany Bahar, one senior executive remains fully committed to the Norfolk car maker. The only problem New York rapper Swizz Beatz, 'vice president of creative design and global marketing at Lotus', seems to have is how to fit his ‘entourage’ (every rapper must have one) into his two-seat company ...
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Ben Barry,
29 March 2012 10:11
I’ve been to South Korea twice now for CAR with Kia and Hyundai, and each time it’s been an incredibly memorable experience, quite unlike anything I’ve ever experienced with car makers in America, Europe, Japan or Australia. So I thought I’d share a few iPhone snaps to give a taste of what it’s like, especially as the North seem to ...
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Greg Fountain,
05 March 2012 15:00
The 2012 Geneva motor show opens to the press tomorrow. Anyone remotely interested in cars will know that this means a hundred or so new cars will be unveiled within the space of about 12 hours. You will be deafened by the howl of marketing spin, as manufacturers clamour for your attention in order to perform the perennial conjuring trick ...
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Sarah-Jayne Harrison,
10 February 2012 14:04
In the near future Facebook will introduce a new profile page layout for all users. Included in their new update will be the addition of cover images where you can personalise your page – and this is where CAR may be able to help. We've taken a selection of fantastic images and tailored them to fit at the top of ...
