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Gavin Green: why Rolls-Royce shouldn't build an SUV

Rated 4.5 out of 54.5

Gavin Green, 30 October 2012 14:46

Every once in a while, BMW hosts an informal chat between Leading British Motoring Writers and a member of its management board. A year or so ago, we parleyed with Ian Robertson, one-time Rover manager, now done good (he’s head of sales and marketing for BMW, and is probably Britain’s most influential car company executive). This time the man in ...

The story of CAR Magazine: part 2

Rated 4.5 out of 54.5

Gavin Green, 21 October 2012 10:48

This is the second part of Gavin Green's instalment, the History of CAR. Click here for Part 1By 1982, CAR was on a roll. Twenty years old, it had graduated from the pioneering rebel of car magazines into the UK’s best-selling enthusiast title. Within a few years, it would overtake What Car? as overall market leader. ‘CAR was perceived as ...

The story of CAR Magazine: part 1

Rated 4.5 out of 54.5

Gavin Green, 20 October 2012 12:30

CAR Magazine will celebrate its 50th anniversary in autumn 2012. Here we look back at the origins of CAR, told by one of the people instrumental in its history, Gavin Green. Click here for an online digital version of this article, which first appeared in the June 2012 issue of CAR. Born 50 years ago this September, Small Car & Mini Owner Incorporating ...

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. ...

Gavin Green on the indestructible charm of the Land Cruiser

Rated 4.5 out of 54.5

Gavin Green, 04 September 2012 09:00

Just back from Tanzania to watch the wildebeest migrate across the Serengeti and one of the highlights – along with the lounging lions, hyenas wandering into our camp, trumpeting elephants and stalking cheetah (not to mention numerous flights in little single-engine Cessnas from bush airstrips) – was our Toyota Land Cruiser safari vehicle. The Land Cruiser is not really understood ...

McLaren X-1 - rebodied MP4-12C supercar (2012)

Rated 2 out of 52

Gavin Green, 17 August 2012 16:00

Sometimes, the best just isn’t good enough. That’s why a wealthy anonymous car collector – garage already full of McLaren F1, McLaren Mercedes SLR and MP4-12C, and goodness knows how many fabulous non-McLarens – thought he’d like to produce his very own one-off supercar. The new McLaren X-1, which makes its debut at The Quail, part of the Pebble Beach ...

Gavin Green on the world’s first good electric car

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Gavin Green, 09 August 2012 10:24

After more than 100 years of electric car dross, at last there’s a good one. The BMW i3, likely to go on sale late next year, is the first intelligently conceived electric car I have experienced. Rather than just a ‘normal’ car that is converted to run on electric power (step forward most EVs now on sale) or a ‘bespoke’ ...

Honda NSX driven by Gavin Green (CAR archive, August 1989)

Rated 5 out of 55

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 ...

Gavin Green’s Greatest Ferraris (CAR archive, June 2007)

Rated 4 out of 54

Gavin Green, 25 July 2012 09:00

They gather on a gorgeous spring day, the sky a deep Bugatti blue, to pay homage to the 60th anniversary of the greatest sports car maker in the world. Nine cars, six of which represent the best of the breed, the others a trio of tempting real-world propositions. Appropriately all but two of the Ferraris are blood red – that ...

Gavin Green gets the inside story on Jaguar’s new C-X75

Rated 4 out of 54

Gavin Green, 24 July 2012 17:37

There are no 200mph-plus hybrid supercars on sale and then suddenly, like London buses, four come along all at once. The new Ferrari Enzo F150, mega McLaren P12, Porsche 918 Spyder and Jaguar C-X75 will all likely compete in the rarefied circa $1 million price band when they hit the road in a few years (probably 2013-14). But that’s where ...

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