The new March 2012 issue of CAR Magazine is out now – led by our exclusive first ride in the new Porsche Boxster. There’s also a 1400-mile American road trip in the latest 911, everything you need to know about Porsche’s 918 hybrid supercar, your guide to buying the best used Porsches – including a £6k Boxster and a £9k 996 – and we meet Hans Mezger, the man who built built Porsche's first flat-six and who calls the legendary 917 Le Mans racer his own.

Elsewhere we’ve uncovered the secrets of Honda’s new NSX, and pitched BMW's new 552bhp M5 super saloon against the Jaguar XFR, Mercedes CLS63 AMG and Porsche Panamera S. Plus Gavin Green visits Trollhättan to chart the plight of the city that Saab once called home, and Mark Walton has been to the Monte Carlo rally to pick apart the crisis affecting the WRC. And there’s updates on our 14 long-term cars, a test of two very different Audi A1s – the A1 Clubsport and A1 E-tron – and we reveal Aston Martin’s V12 Zagato and BMW’s big plans for its electric range of i cars.

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