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CAR this month trials a new service letting you buy a single issue of CAR Magazine via the website – at the same price you’d pay in a shop. Previously you’ve only been able to take out an annual subscription to the printed magazine online, but we’re testing a new, more flexible system to see if there’s demand to buy ...

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New service! Buy a single issue of CAR online

Tim Pollard, 18 February 2011 09:23

DAB radio in cars and the digital switchover

Tim Pollard, 22 November 2010 10:44

Britain's motorists face a £1 billion+ bill to fix their car radios so they work after the digital switchover, a CAR Magazine investigation reveals. The Government plans to switch off the FM signal and move the UK's broadcasting industry to DAB digital radios - mirroring the switchover from analogue to digital televisions. The official target for the digital radio switchover ...

James Bond Aston Martin DB5 sells for £2.9m

Tim Pollard, 28 October 2010 08:54

The famous James Bond Aston Martin DB5 sold last night at a London auction for nearly £3 million. American businessman Harry Yeaggy paid £2,912,000 ($4,608,500) for the 1964 DB5 driven by Sean Connery in Goldfinger and Thunderball. The 007 DB5 is best known for Q's gadgets, including revolving number plates, rocket launchers and an ejector seat. Who bought James Bond's Aston Martin ...

UK's emergency Budget 2010: how it affects motorists

Tim Pollard, 21 June 2010 09:51

The new UK Government's emergency Budget tomorrow is likely to announce a raft of spending cuts and tax rises bound to affect motorists. The new Conservative-Liberal coalition government is taking the unusual step of holding an emergency summer Budget to reduce the national deficit, which stood at £156bn in 2009-10. The senior Cabinet members signed off the details of the ...

The CAR Pubcast: which is the best supercar of 2010?

Tim Pollard, 17 May 2010 11:52

Welcome to the inaugural CAR Pubcast™ – where you can hear the CAR Magazine team debate the greatest supercars of 2010. It's to accompany a feature in the new June 2010 issue of CAR, out this week and you can hear the bread rolls being thrown as we argue over the fastest cars to grace our pages this year. The ...

Ferrari 599XX sets new Nurburgring lap record

Tim Pollard, 23 April 2010 10:13

The Ferrari 599XX has set a new 'production car' lap record at the Nurburgring in Germany, with factory test driver Raffaele de Simone behind the wheel. Although some will scoff at the vaguely tenuous 'production-derived sports car record' claimed by Ferrari, the 599XX is claimed to be the first road car to break the seven-minute barrier.Maranello today revealed the 599XX ...

CAR Online: the v2.2 redesign (2010)

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Tim Pollard, 21 April 2010 09:36

You've probably noticed that we've released a modest update to CAR Online. Yesterday's release has gone relatively smoothly, but we're still ironing out a few glitches and bugs. Please bear with us while we do! Here's our guide to what's new – and you can tell us your thoughts and log any problems using the comment function below. We'll read ...

CAR's review of 2009: our A-Z guide

Tim Pollard, 29 December 2009 20:30

We're in nostalgic mood at CAR Online over the Christmas break, full to bursting with mincepies and heading to the start of a new decade. So we've gathered together some reflections and thoughts on 2009 from the team who produce CAR Magazine and CAR Online. Click on the links to the left for CAR's review of 2009 – with our ...

CAR's review of 2009: photos of the year

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Tim Pollard, 27 December 2009 22:30

CAR designers Andy Franklin and Alex Tapley have pored over our photographers' output from 2009 and announced their favourite pictures of the year. We've set up a slideshow in the player below and you can flick back and forwards through CAR Magazine's best photos. CAR's famous for the quality of its photography and it's a tradition we're happy to uphold. We hire some of ...

Send CAR's Christmas e-cards for free!

Tim Pollard, 18 December 2009 09:00

What do you send your petrolhead mates for Christmas? Easy. Ping them one of our Santa's sleighs designed by world leading car designers and commissioned exclusively for CAR Magazine. Choose from Christmas sleighs by Aston Martin, Audi, Bentley, Ford, Jaguar, Land Rover, Nissan, Rolls-Royce and Vauxhall – there's something for everyone with even a drop of petrol in their veins.We've ...

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