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Ford FPV Boss 335 GT (2012) CAR review

Ford FPV Boss 335 GT (2012) CAR review

Rated 4 out of 54

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 ...

Rolls-Royce 102 EX (2011) CAR first drive review

Rolls-Royce 102 EX (2011) CAR first drive review

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Ben Oliver, 17 June 2011 09:26

This is the Rolls-Royce 102EX. Also known as the Phantom Experimental Electric, it swaps V12 petrol power for a massive block of batteries and electric motors to create perhaps the least-likely EV conversion ever. Does the Rolls-Royce 102EX work as a viable EV luxury limo? Read on for CAR's drive of the 102EX to find out... Rolls-Royce 102EX: the rationale ...

Bentley Mulsanne (2010): new CAR review

Bentley Mulsanne (2010): new CAR review

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Ben Oliver, 28 June 2010 14:48

The new Bentley Mulsanne will cost from £220,000 in the UK, much closer to a Rolls-Royce Ghost than the Phantom. At 5.5m, it’s also closer in size to the 5.4m Ghost than the 5.8m Phantom, but at 2585kg around the same weight as the aluminium Phantom and 150kg heavier than the steel Ghost.Bentley Mulsanne: the numbers gameSuch numbers are useful ...

Citroen DS3 DSport THP150 (2010) CAR review

Citroen DS3 DSport THP150 (2010) CAR review

Rated 2.5 out of 52.5

Ben Oliver, 26 May 2010 13:30

The French philosopher Roland Barthes wrote when the original Citroen DS was launched in 1955 that the car was now the “exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely ...

Vauxhall Ampera plug-in hybrid (2009) CAR review

Vauxhall Ampera plug-in hybrid (2009) CAR review

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Ben Oliver, 27 August 2009 09:37

The Vauxhall Ampera – also known as the Opel Ampera and best known as the Chevrolet Volt – is, according to one General Motors insider, ‘the most important car the company has ever built’.  So our first chance to drive it is a significant event, even if it is just a test mule with the Ampera’s powertrain fitted to a ...

Alfa Romeo 8C Spider (2009) CAR review

Alfa Romeo 8C Spider (2009) CAR review

Rated 4 out of 54

Ben Oliver, 17 July 2009 09:09

If you were disappointed at having missed out on one of Alfa’s 500 8C Competizione coupés, here’s more bad news: you’ve missed out on the Alfa Romeo 8C Spider too. Another 500 will be made, with 35 coming to the UK, but they’ve all been reserved. Then again, you might be relieved at having missed out when you see the ...

Range Rover 5.0 S'charged (2010) CAR review

Range Rover 5.0 S'charged (2010) CAR review

Rated 3.5 out of 53.5

Ben Oliver, 15 July 2009 00:00

Given the current economic and environmental climate, you might have expected Land Rover to give the heavily revised 2010 model-year Range Rover a 2.0-litre engine and a 50% price cut. It hasn’t. Engine capacity is up by a quarter. Power is up 29%. The price goes up too. But Land Rover has to believe that its markets will return, and ...

Renault Kangoo Be Bop ZE (2009) electric car review

Renault Kangoo Be Bop ZE (2009) electric car review

Rated 4 out of 54

Ben Oliver, 10 July 2009 16:51

Under the skin of the Renault Kangoo Be Bop ZE electric car, four rather more significant cars are lurking. Starting from 2011, Renault plans to introduce a range of at least four electric vehicles, all of which will share the drivetrain powering this concept car, which we tested on public roads near Paris. There will be a Kangoo van and ...

Audi TT RS Coupe (2009) CAR review

Audi TT RS Coupe (2009) CAR review

Rated 3 out of 53

Ben Oliver, 24 June 2009 12:30

Audi doesn’t make many RS-badged cars. Since 1992 it has only applied them to five high-performance, low-volume models: the original RS2 estate, and two versions each of the RS4 and RS6. Each had a monstrous engine shoe-horned into a saloon or estate body, and made BMW’s M-cars and Mercedes-Benz’s AMGs look pretty common by comparison. So any new RS model ...

Lexus RX450h (2009) CAR review

Lexus RX450h (2009) CAR review

Rated 3 out of 53

Ben Oliver, 01 May 2009 11:30

The new Lexus RX450h boasts some figures so staggering that even if you’re a diehard opponent of hybrids, crossovers, and particularly cars like this that combine the two, you’re going to have to take notice. Compared to the car it replaces, power is up 10% to 295bhp, but fuel economy improves by 23% to 44.8mpg and CO2 emissions fall from ...

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