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Range Rover Sport prototype (2013) CAR review

Ben Oliver, 02 May 2013 13:30

Our first chance to drive the new Range Rover Sport has come sooner than we might have expected. It had its world debut at the New York auto show a month ago, yet here we are in the UK at Land Rover's Gaydon test track, looking at a prototype with its driver's door open and engine running. While we'd reiterate ...

Tesla Model S (2013) CAR review

4.5

Ben Oliver, 08 February 2013 10:00

Tesla will begin deliveries to UK Model S customers in summer 2013, with a right-hand drive version of the electric limo due to follow in late 2014. The top-level Signature trim model will start at £83,000 and will only be available with the flagship 85kWh battery that we've tested below. The entry-level model, capable of a 160 mile range from its ...

Mercedes CLS250 CDI (2012) long-term test review

Ben Oliver, 20 January 2013 09:01

Mercedes CLS250 CDI goodbye - 17 January 2013 Well how wrong can you be about a car? Or its looks, anyway. When friends ask if you’ll drive them to their wedding, you know you have something pretty special – a car for the big day that you can drive every day. My Mercedes-Benz CLS250 CDI Sport didn’t feel that special ...

Mercedes CLA (2013) first official pictures

4.5

Ben Oliver, 14 January 2013 09:01

Mercedes-Benz has revealed its new CLA, a four-door coupe based on the A-class, at an event held in Detroit on the night before this year's motor show opens. But to keep your attention on the big-selling E-class which also makes its debut here, the CLA won't be on Mercedes' show stand, and will make its official public debut at Berlin ...

VW Amarok in Patagonia (CAR archive, April 2010)

Ben Oliver, 12 August 2012 10:00

I don’t know why I thought this was a good idea. I’m standing on a tonne of timber piled, unsecured, into the back of a Volkswagen Amarok with the tailgate down, and I’m clinging to its fat chrome roll bar because beneath me the truck is bellowing and bucking over soft sand and thick clumps of brush as it climbs ...

Ben Oliver explores McLaren’s Unit 2 (CAR archive, December 2011)

Ben Oliver, 06 August 2012 09:00

McLaren people refer to it as Unit 2. It is the polar opposite of their extraordinary, Space Odyssey McLaren Technical Centre headquarters in Woking, with its glass walls and cooling lake and famous architect and unnerving clinical sterility. Instead, Unit 2 is a low, 1980s, brick-built former factory on an industrial estate. I’ve been asked not to tell you where ...

Gordon Murray documentary on BBC4: CAR's preview

Ben Oliver, 06 July 2012 11:00

We originally ran this story in March 2012, but the BBC moved the schedule. It's now been confirmed the documentary will run this Sunday 8 July 2012 at 8.00pm (BST) after the British grand prix. Now this is why we pay our licence fees. BBC4 has shot an hour-long documentary on Gordon Murray which intersperses his extraordinary 40-year history designing some ...

Cortina time warp: Ben Oliver drives the Ford Cortina Mk5

4.5

Ben Oliver, 22 June 2012 12:25

I am a young executive. No cuffs than mine are cleaner; I have a Slimline briefcase and I use the firm’s Cortina. By 1982, when it finally went out of production, the Ford Cortina had enjoyed a 20-year Tescopoly on British motoring. For ten years it was Britain’s best-selling car; in its best years nearly 200,000 were sold and one ...

Bentley Azure (CAR Magazine, May 2007: Bentley to Arctic Circle)

4.5

Ben Oliver, 19 June 2012 10:01

Not gonna crash this car. I am not going to crash this car. I am not going to have my most expensive and probably final accident at 30 bloody miles per hour. But not having the accident is easier said than done when I’m 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle, three days and 1200 miles into the craziest road ...

Ford FPV Boss 335 GT (2012) CAR review

3.5

Ben Oliver, 07 May 2012 07:00

Ford’s Australian outpost has built its most powerful car ever: the Ford Performance Vehicles Boss 335 GT. That’s 335 kilowatts, by the way: 450bhp to you and me, from a supercharged five-litre V8 engine shoe-horned into the bodyshell of Ford’s standard, rear-wheel drive Falcon saloon. With a bonnet bulge the size of Uluru and that power output stencilled into its ...

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