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CAR readers interview F1 champ Sebastian Vettel

CAR readers interview F1 champ Sebastian Vettel

Rated 3 out of 53

Ben Whitworth, 23 September 2011 13:06

CAR grabbed seven-and-a-half minutes with Red Bull Racing driver and reigning F1 world champion Sebastian Vettel at the recent 2011 Frankfurt motor show. As promised, we put your questions to Vettel, who was on the Infiniti stand to unveil his own personal FX50. He's an ambassador for Infiniti, see. We didn't quite secure the full quarter of an hour we were ...

CAR Online readers’ chance to quiz Sebastian Vettel

CAR Online readers’ chance to quiz Sebastian Vettel

Rated 3 out of 53

Ben Whitworth, 09 September 2011 09:42

We’ve been granted a quarter of an hour audience one-to-one with reigning F1 world champion Sebastian Vettel at the 2011 Frankfurt motor show. Knowing CAR’s legendarily way-off F1 predictions each year, some wag suggested letting you lot take over. So here’s your chance to quiz Vettel. Post your best question in the comments section below and we’ll pick the 10 best ...

Rolls-Royce 102EX electric – wafting up the Goodwood hill

Rolls-Royce 102EX electric – wafting up the Goodwood hill

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Ben Whitworth, 07 July 2011 09:14

I had the privilege this last weekend of wafting Up The Hill in Rolls-Royce’s remarkable 102EX Phantom Experimental Electric at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. If you’ve read Ben Oliver’s excellent first drive you’ll know that despite having the biggest battery ever fitted to a passenger vehicle – there are 96 lithium-nickel-cobalt-manganese-oxide cells  beneath that imperious bonnet generating 71kWh, with ...

Ben Whitworth on supercar gearboxes

Ben Whitworth on supercar gearboxes

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Ben Whitworth, 28 June 2011 09:28

The 458 Italia’s gearbox is superb. Irrespective of throttle opening, its twin-clutch set up whips through its seven gears incredibly quickly and smoothly. There’s no jolt through the chassis and drivetrain even at red-line change-ups, and you can drop through the cogs with machine-gun speed. Its technical brilliance perfectly matches the character of the car. I hated it. The iconic ...

Why Audi motorsport bosses think F1 is irrelevant

Why Audi motorsport bosses think F1 is irrelevant

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Ben Whitworth, 17 May 2011 15:30

Despite being invited to advise the FIA on developing the new rules that will govern F1 from 2014 onwards, Audi is simply not interested in the sport, Ingolstadt top brass have told CAR.  'There’s a very good reason why we are not in F1,' says Wolfgang Ullrich, Audi’s motorsport boss. 'There’s no relevance to the road. Audi has always been ...

What Le Mans racing will be like in 2020

What Le Mans racing will be like in 2020

Rated 2.5 out of 52.5

Ben Whitworth, 17 May 2011 15:30

Audi's Le Mans team have done a spot of crystal ball gazing to guess what endurance racers of the future could look like. They predict that racing will continue to be a mainstream sport, but only if the cars, rules and spectating experience adapt to keep up with the zeitgeist. So what's coming to Le Mans in 2020? 'I think the ...

Remembering the underdogs: the 2006 Subaru Tribeca

Remembering the underdogs: the 2006 Subaru Tribeca

Rated 3 out of 53

Ben Whitworth, 03 May 2011 10:33

It was parked outside Waitrose in Chichester and it stopped me in my tracks. A Subaru Tribeca. It was the first one I had seen… well, since I drove one when it was launched. It went on sale here for 18 months between 2006 and 2008 and just 746 were sold before Scooby canned it. There’s an old adage in ...

Remembering the underdogs: the 1989 Honda NSX

Remembering the underdogs: the 1989 Honda NSX

Rated 4 out of 54

Ben Whitworth, 28 March 2011 12:15

I spotted the NSX heading London-bound up the A3 early on Saturday morning, on the way to attend my best mate’s stag do. It was pristine, its cherry red paintwork and unscarred five-spoke silver alloys glinting in the sunlight. Low, sleek and barrelling along at a very decent pace, it looked utterly gorgeous. I was instantly struck at just how fresh and ...

Can you tell where CAR's next road trip is to?

Can you tell where CAR's next road trip is to?

Rated 4 out of 54

Ben Whitworth, 19 April 2010 10:55

CAR Magazine is well known for travelling to the ends of the world on epic road trips – and in the new May 2010 issue of CAR, out on 21 April, we drove along a frozen river in Canada to one of the most remote spots in the motoring world. As part of the build-up, we asked our readers to ...

Why Skoda is the new Volvo, by Ben Whitworth

Why Skoda is the new Volvo, by Ben Whitworth

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Ben Whitworth, 14 December 2009 10:04

I probably got hotter under the collar than most about the arrival of the new Skoda Superb Estate. I love big estates – there’s something about their ability to combine handsome lines and load-lugging duties that inexplicably rouses a powerful want-one desirability deep within me. No one understands this blend of qualities better than Volvo. Which is why I have ...

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