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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 ...

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James Bond Aston Martin DB5 sells for £2.9m

Tim Pollard, 28 October 2010 08:54

See the Merc SLS driven by David Coulthard in 3D

Jed Maxwell, 13 August 2010 16:39

Sky's 3D pub channel will this weekend host the premiere of a 3D film showing David Coulthard driving the Mercedes SLS supercar around the Isle of Man. Click here to see the making of the 3D Merc SLS video.It was shot using a second SLS carrying a brace of 3D camera gear bolted to the back. After Sky's premiere, CAR ...

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 ...

Vote in our greatest supercar of 2010 poll

Ben Pulman, 28 April 2010 14:16

It’s the year of the supercar. 2010 heralds first UK deliveries of spectacular supercars from Ferrari, Lamborghini, Mercedes-Benz and Porsche. Plus we’re counting down to Lexus’s first hypercar, Aston’s £1m rival to the Bugatti Veyron, and McLaren’s successor to arguably the greatest of all time, the F1. What cars, and what a year. Which got us thinking: could the greatest ...

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 ...

Ferrari’s junior supercars: a potted history

Glen Waddington, 28 July 2009 11:17

What’s in a name? Ferrari’s about to launch its new V8-engined middie, the new 458 Italia. It’s the latest in a line of illustrious junior Ferrari sports cars. And its model number – 458: 4.5 litres, 8 cylinders – is entirely logical. Here’s a potted history of what came before. 1. Dino 206/246 GT/GTS Ferrari created a sub-brand, named after ...

F1 goes all arty with oil: Lewis Hamilton portrait

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Peter Adams, 08 June 2009 14:00

It’s not often that the motoring world slickly merges with art, but Mobil 1 has made it happen. US artist David Macaluso has painted a portrait of Lewis Hamilton using oil not from a tube of paint, but from the sump of Hamilton’s F1 car. The oil was taken from Vodafone McLaren Mercedes’ 2008 F1 car – the vehicle that ...

CAR readers to quiz F1 star David Coulthard

Tim Pollard, 13 May 2009 10:45

CAR Online has bagged an interview with former F1 driver turned pundit David Coulthard. And rather than hog his time with our own questions, we thought we’d hand this exclusive opportunity over to you. So here’s your chance to interview Coulthard, a fixture of British F1 hopes for 15 seasons. What would you most like to ask him? How he ...

How to buy a secondhand Ferrari for Mondeo money

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Chris Chilton, 10 April 2009 10:00

Warning! Buying a used Ferrari can seriously damage your wealth. Let’s make that clear even if the Surgeon General doesn’t attach government health warnings to secondhand Ferraris. Expect to run an exotic, no matter how old, on a shoestring and you’re going to get burned. Though expensive when new, Ferraris are often no better built than anything else and can ...