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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

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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 ...

How Swizz Beatz rollz: a Lotus Evora plus Chevy Suburban

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 ...

Driving a Land Rover Disco support car in Africa

Ben Oliver, 09 February 2012 10:20

I’m sure this won’t come as a surprise to you, but the glorious white Jaguar XJ Supersports in which Andy Green and I did the first high-speed recce run on the Hakskeen Pan wasn’t the only car there that day. You might have read the story in the current, February issue of CAR. This dry lake bed in South Africa’s ...

Top 10 in-car footage: the best motoring clips on YouTube

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Ben Oliver, 28 December 2011 09:00

God bless YouTube. Just put each title below into its search box for the maddest, oddest and funniest in-car action. How do we get any work done? Ben Oliver wrote this month's Top 10 for CAR Magazine's back page - and here we collate the action from YouTube for your festive delectation. Mike Hawthorn, Le Mans 1956 The grand-daddy of ...

How to make the Mustang Boss sound even better

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Ben Oliver, 02 December 2011 10:46

It’s easy to fall in love with a car in its natural habitat. After a week driving a Ford Mustang Boss 302 around LA, reporting the story on southern California’s car culture which you can read in the current issue of CAR Magazine, I boldly declared it ‘the best American car I’ve driven’. But would it feel as good in ...

Ben Oliver mulls over trains vs ferries

Ben Oliver, 06 June 2011 13:58

Attention massive transport geeks! I’ve had a pretty good few weeks for massive modes of transport. First, I drove Mercedes-Benz’s Actros truck, which makes nearly 2200lb-ft of torque from its astonishingly refined 16-litre V8 diesel, and has a cabin so vast that it offers not just cupholders, but an optional coffee machine mounted above the windscreen. And two beds, a ...

CAR's review of the 2011 Detroit auto show

Ben Oliver, 11 January 2011 08:13

Click here to read CAR's Live Blog from the 2011 Detroit auto show Like some fast-living rock star who over-indulged, burnt out and hit rock-bottom, the US car industry is in recovery; chastened, optimistic, but still a little hungover. The hangover is visible in the lack of exciting new products and concepts at the 2011 Detroit auto show. What we ...

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