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McLaren vs the world - Pt 2 (CAR, July 2011)

3.5

Ben Collins, 31 August 2012 10:00

The weather at Rockingham racetrack is perfect for this test of the titans: clear skies with a balmy track ambient to help tyres bite bitumen. As the sun beats down, poker-faced crews unload their darlings from immaculate trucks; stopwatches are fondled, new tyres pressured. Yet the way I drive on them, these tyres will be snuffed after two laps, leaving ...

McLaren 12C vs the world - Part 1 (CAR archive, June 2011)

2.5

Ben Barry, 24 August 2012 12:00

So, this is it, the big one. In a layby on an empty Welsh road linking nowhere in particular to somewhere else altogether sit a McLaren MP4-12C and Ferrari 458 Italia. Both cars are brimmed with superplus, fluids tickled to temperature, specs long since decided, minders long since departed. Finally they’re ours, and over the next couple of days we’ll ...

Goodwin drives across the Channel (CAR archive, October 1995)

Colin Goodwin, 08 August 2012 10:00

They said it couldn’t be done. Colin Goodwin strikes out for France in Dutton’s floating Fiesta. Never thrown up in a car before. Mind you, I’ve never tried driving to France in one, either. And I don’t mean driving onto a ferry or le Shuttle, but actually driving to France, on a wet bit called the Channel. I’ve wanted to ...

Boxer vs. Countach vs. 911 Turbo (CAR archive, January 1976)

3.5

Mel Nichols, 01 August 2012 11:00

The noise pulled faces to every window as the cars went through the villages. The sight dragged crowds to every square. Mouths gaped. Eyes stared. Fingers pointed. Children squealed. The people of the Pennines had never seen anything like this, and if they found it hard to believe then so did we, for it had taken more than a year ...

Bugatti Veyron in the real world (CAR archive, September 2006)

Georg Kacher, 27 July 2012 10:00

The Bugatti Veyron sounds like a low-flying chopper as it starts climbing the hill on the far side of my home village. The roar is muffled for a few seconds by the two-storey buildings that form the core of the settlement in the Munich stockbroker belt. But then, rapidly gaining intensity, the noise morphs from subconscious to ‘what the – ...

DeLorean by Jason Barlow (CAR archive, June 2005)

4.5

Jason Barlow, 23 July 2012 09:00

‘Never judge a man unless you’ve walked a mile in his moccasins.’ – John DeLorean, quoting a native American Indian saying You sit low in this car, very low. You can’t see the bonnet. The windscreen is sharply angled and the side glass has an unconventional shape – not least because there’s a smaller, second piece set within the main ...

Iain Banks drives a F1 car (CAR magazine, June 2000)

4.5

Iain Banks, 01 July 2012 09:13

Being behind the wheel of Formula One car is about as far-removed from any other motoring experience as you can imagine. Some might say indescribable. Not if you are one of the country’s leading novelists. Clutch out. Vibration previously merely intense leaps to merge with the psychotic engine scream. Exit pits, wheel twitching. Clutch in, second gear, aim for a ...

McLaren F1 review (CAR Magazine, June 1994: Into Orbit)

4.5

Roger Bell, 19 June 2012 10:31

My mind is blown. My soul corrupted. Absolute power has cast its spell. Solo or ménage a trois, I don’t mind. Put me back in the middle, behind the central wheel of the world’s fastest driving machine. I need more, another fix. Two days on the loose in McLaren’s three-seater megacar, and I’m hooked. You would be, too. The 627-horsepower ...

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 ...

Ferrari F40 vs Porsche 959 (CAR Magazine, July 1988: Another World)

Georg Kacher and Gavin Green, 19 June 2012 10:00

The skies over Ferrari’s Maranello headquarters were lead-grey and swollen with rain when we arrived in the Colgate-white Porsche 959. It was just after 8.15am and our Ferrari host for the day, the new PR boss, Giovanni Perfetti, was not yet at work. But those famous green gates were open, and some of the workers had already clocked on. Most ...

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