Chris Chilton

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Mulling modded guilty pleasures of the 1980s

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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 ...

Build it yourself Porsche 911 GT3 RS

Chris Chilton, 29 December 2011 16:02

Doing a spot of last-minute shopping for my four-year-old, I was sorely tempted to buy this superb £40 build-it-yourself Porsche 911 GT3 RS. Probably far too tricky for the boy but I would have loved to spend Christmas morning 'helping' him to put it together. It's heartening that model makers are still switched on to the latest hot cars. Car ...

Are diesel particulate filters more trouble than help?

Chris Chilton, 26 August 2011 09:50

If you’ve seen the latest September 2011 issue of CAR Magazine, you might have noticed a news story about diesel particulate filters, and how a failing one could land you with a £1500 repair bill that isn’t covered by any warranty. DPFs started appearing on diesel cars a decade ago. Like catalytic converters on petrol cars, they sit in the ...

Off-road in the Range Rover Evoque

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Chris Chilton, 05 April 2011 09:00

But is it a proper Range Rover? That’s the question you’ve probably been asking yourself since you recoiled in horror at Land Rover’s decision to parade Victoria Beckham around at the launch of the Evoque. Okay, so we know the marketing reasons behind that, it’s all about reaching out to a new demographic with a new type of car. But ...

Cut-price Performance Car of the Year bargains

Chris Chilton, 31 December 2010 09:00

I’ve got one big problem with our PCOTY cars and it’s that I can’t afford any of them. Which got me thinking: is there an affordable used alternative to each car, one with a similar spirit but that's genuinely affordable, say sub-£20k? Here’s what I came up with: Can’t afford the Lamborghini Gallardo LP570-4 Superleggera Buy the Lotus ExigeThere are stacks ...

Why we've all got to retrain for the electric revolution

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Chris Chilton, 17 August 2010 10:37

Think you know what makes a car tick? I thought I did. Now I’m no engineer or even a particularly gifted mechanic, but I’ve stripped cars to naked shells, rebuilt engines from the bare block up, changed clutches, swapped head gaskets and generally fiddled with enough motors to vaguely keep up when some boffin on a car launch is explaining ...

The Arthur Daley Jags and why it’s not all glamour

Chris Chilton, 21 May 2010 12:00

Think Jags are all about glamour? If you’d asked me 15 years ago I’d have had a slightly different view. Before getting into the magazine business I spent a couple of years toiling away in a distinctly downmarket back street garage. It was just the two of us there: me, who’d dropped out of college to change subframes on Metros ...

Why I ended up buying two E12 BMW M535i's

Chris Chilton, 28 January 2010 10:20

There’s something about impending fatherhood that makes me rush out and buy cars that I have absolutely no need for. Maybe it’s a midlife crisis thing, I’m not sure, but I can tell you that children are certainly expensive, though not for the reasons everyone thinks.Three years ago I bought a 1989 911 Carrera two weeks before my son was ...

Mini memories: Chris Chilton remembers a life of Minis

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Chris Chilton, 21 September 2009 15:48

Old and new Mini fans tend not to mix. I’ve had, and loved, both. This 2002 picture shows the caged-up BMW Cooper that I campaigned in the inaugural John Cooper Challenge while using as my daily driver. Next to it is my 1964 Mk1. After two weeks of 850cc tedium I dropped in a Cooper S-esque 1275 MG Metro engine ...

Will the Germans ever win? A magazine retrospective

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Chris Chilton, 30 December 2008 09:00

If there’s one thing that’s guaranteed to reduce my productivity to almost zero it’s being in the same room as a load of old car magazines. That’s quite a problem given that my newly constructed office at home contains hundreds of the things amassed by me over the last 25 years. Quite apart from the memories they revive – where ...

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