http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Shared/Handlers/RssHandler.ashx?N=692&Ns=P_Publication_Date|1CAR Online | Blogs RSS Feed(c) 2013, Bauer Media. All rights reserved.30http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Ollie-Kew-Blog/Mon, 20 May 2013 10:20:00 GMTBlogsHamburg is a long way to go to poke around a new car and not drive it, but when it's a new Mercedes S-class, it's worth the trek, if only to see the tech that'll be filtering down to Golfs...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Ollie-Kew-Blog/Trip-diary-how-Mercedes-launches-a-new-S-class/Mon, 20 May 2013 10:00:00 GMTBlogsTues, 7 May. 9.30pm After a flight out of Heathrow and a bewildering detour on a bus, we finally arrive in Maranello for a late dinner at the Museo Ferrari. There's bags of interesting stuff here, but the 288 GTO-based...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Ben-Barry-Blog/The-ultimate-car-geek-tour-we-go-inside-Ferrari/Thu, 09 May 2013 17:00:00 GMTBlogsThis blog was inspired by the CAR online forum thread Anatole "Tony" Lapine RIP. Many thanks to CAR forum moderator Kubrick and the other users whose comments informed this work.http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Mark-Hamilton-Blog/Remembering-Tony-Lapine/Fri, 03 May 2013 07:02:00 GMTBlogsSpent the weirdest day ever on set with Ron Howard as he set about shooting the opening scenes of his forthcoming F1 movie, Rush, which dramatises the rivalry between James Hunt and Niki Lauda in the mid '70s. Over lunch...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Greg-Fountain-Blog/Ron-Howard-talks-to-CAR-about-his-F1-race-movie/Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:30:00 GMTBlogsThe world premieres of the LaFerrari and McLaren P1 were special, rare moments: it’s a decade since Ferrari unveiled the Enzo, and twice that since McLaren stunned the world with the F1. Yet the planets all aligned at the 2013...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Guest-Blogs/McLaren-P1--LaFerrari-witnessing-the-arrival-of-supercar-royalty/Fri, 08 Mar 2013 16:40:00 GMTBlogsA new BMW M5 retails for £73,000, so it’s understandable if a would-be owner considers the secondhand options; BMW’s approved used scheme throws up plenty of year-old models for £55,000 or so, including my old longtermer . How is it,...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Ben-Barry-Blog/Why-a-new-2013-BMW-M5-costs-less-than-a-used-one/Thu, 21 Feb 2013 09:00:00 GMTBlogsCAR's Jesse Crosse has bought a Ford Escort rally car and is getting stuck in sliding the rear-drive machine along stages across the UK. If you've ever dreamed of entering grass-roots motorsport, here's a close-up look at the ups and...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Jesse-Crosse/CARs-Jesse-Crosses-goes-rallying-in-a-Gp4-Ford-Escort-Mk2/Wed, 13 Feb 2013 07:00:00 GMTBlogsDo winter tyres work? We've explained how snow tyres work in our separate story here, but now it's time to put them to the test. We've tried cold-weather rubber in a wide range of cars, to see if they really are...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Guest-Blogs/Should-you-buy-winter-tyres-CAR-puts-winter-rubber-on-test/Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:11:00 GMTBlogsDo you use winter tyres? After several cold snaps in recent years, Brits have slowly woken up to snow tyres which can keep going where normal rubber gives up. The UK still has very few winter tyres in use - just 3% of...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Guest-Blogs/The-science-of-winter-tyres-how-they-work-2012/Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:00:00 GMTBlogsIs it just us, or does the baddy in new Bond flick Skyfall look suspiciously like 007's own Aston Martin DB5? We've just watched the new James Bond movie and can't help but notice how Javier Bardem's distinctive mouth echoes...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Tim-Pollard-Blog2/Why-Skyfall-villain-Javier-Bardem-looks-like-Bonds-Aston/Wed, 28 Nov 2012 09:42:00 GMTBlogsCaterham now owns a 50% share in rally legend Alpine, and will from 2015 sell a brand new sports car co-developed with Renaultsport. It’s fighting talk from Caterham, which only sells around 500 cars a year currently. At least Caterham's sales...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Guest-Blogs/The-Caterham-Alpine-tie-up-2016-who-benefits-most/Tue, 06 Nov 2012 14:00:00 GMTBlogsSquircles are the designer's latest friend – the new motif which you'll find adorning many new cars, from BMW's ugly-as-sin 1-series to the new Fiat Panda. I drove the Fiat Panda TwinAir last night and couldn't move for the damn...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Tim-Pollard-Blog2/The-Fiat-Panda-2012-and-the-cult-of-the-squircle/Tue, 06 Nov 2012 10:32:00 GMTBlogsCAR magazine needs case studies of people who've bought cars at auction – we'd love to hear your stories of buying secondhand under the hammer. Have you bought a car from an auction house? Perhaps stole a bargain and saved...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Tim-Pollard-Blog2/We-want-your-stories-of-buying-a-car-at-auction/Thu, 01 Nov 2012 15:37:00 GMTBlogsCAR reader Andy Downes has long lusted after owning a BMW M division car. He recently found an immaculate E46 BMW M3 and took the plunge. Here he blogs on his experience. Four years of saving, years of dreaming, months...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Guest-Blogs/A-CAR-reader-blogs-on-buying-his-first-BMW-M3-E46/Wed, 31 Oct 2012 11:20:00 GMTBlogsEvery once in a while, BMW hosts an informal chat between Leading British Motoring Writers and a member of its management board. A year or so ago, we parleyed with Ian Robertson, one-time Rover manager, now done good (he’s head...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Gavin-Green-Blog/Gavin-Green-on-why-Rolls-Royce-should-not-build-an-SUV/Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:46:00 GMTBlogsYou’ll find a plethora of new car verdicts tucked away in the reviews section of CAR’s website, but (unsurprisingly) very few appraisals of a car from the back seat only. After all, a car would have to be a more...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Guest-Blogs/Jaguars-122k-XJ-Ultimate---a-guided-tour/Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:00:00 GMTBlogsThis is the second part of Gavin Green's instalment, the History of CAR. Click here for Part 1By 1982, CAR was on a roll. Twenty years old, it had graduated from the pioneering rebel of car magazines into the UK’s...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Gavin-Green-Blog/The-story-of-CAR-part-2/Sun, 21 Oct 2012 11:48:00 GMTBlogsCAR Magazine will celebrate its 50th anniversary in autumn 2012. Here we look back at the origins of CAR, told by one of the people instrumental in its history, Gavin Green. Click here for an online digital version of this article, which first...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Gavin-Green-Blog/The-story-of-CAR---part-1/Sat, 20 Oct 2012 13:30:00 GMTBlogsCAR's rookie racer Gareth Evans set out to go racing on a budget of £10,000. Click here to read his training blog as he prepared to go racing. And read on for his exploits on track... Mallory Park -  14 October The...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Gareth-Evans/Diaries-of-a-race-driver-on-a-meagre-budget-/Sun, 14 Oct 2012 13:34:00 GMTBlogsMany months ago CAR magazine's editor hatched a plan to gather together the 50 greatest cars of the past 50 years to celebrate CAR’s 50th birthday. So we found a huge aircraft hangar, picked a week far too near in...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Ben-Pulman-Blog2/How-we-photographed-50-cars-for-CAR-magazines-50th-cover/Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:00:00 GMTBlogsThat glorious British summer – of gold medals and diamond jubilees and Paralympic glory, of Wiggo and Mo and Hoy’s joy – is not over. It has moved to Paris where instead of meaty athletes and brave Paralympians, we find...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/Motor-show--events/Paris-Motor-Show/2012/Paris-motor-show-2012-review-by-Gavin-Green/Fri, 28 Sep 2012 01:31:00 GMTBlogsIn an effort to get the next generation of budding automotive engineers excited about economical cars, Goodwood motor racing circuit will once again play host to the Greenpower Finals next month. The event centres on a race between school teams...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Guest-Blogs/Greenpower-Nationals-2012-the-3000mpg-Goodwood-race/Fri, 21 Sep 2012 10:00:00 GMTBlogsOur rookie racer is now qualified and ready to race. Click here to read his racing blogs!  The final shakedown test in our Scarab race car - 26 March 2012 You don’t race over the winter. It’s a time to regroup...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Gareth-Evans/Who-I-am-why-I-want-to-race-why-10k/Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:12:00 GMTBlogsIt's been some time since we've seen traffic like this on one of the UK's best known racetracks. All of the necessary evidence has now been submitted to confirm the 964-strong meeting of Ferraris at Silverstone to be a Guinness...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Guest-Blogs/Record-Ferrari-parade-at-Silverstone-2012-/Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:01:00 GMTBlogsAs always, the 007 hype goes through the roof when there's a new Bond film on the way, and with Skyfall set to hit silver screens in October 2012, we're already salivating over the prospect of another classic Bond chase...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Video/Search-Results/Video/cars-in-movies/Video-All-the-Bonds---in-one-car-chase/Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:00:00 GMTBlogsJust back from Tanzania to watch the wildebeest migrate across the Serengeti and one of the highlights – along with the lounging lions, hyenas wandering into our camp, trumpeting elephants and stalking cheetah (not to mention numerous flights in little...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Gavin-Green-Blog/Gavin-Green-on-the-indestructible-charm-of-the-Toyota-Land-Cruiser/Tue, 04 Sep 2012 10:00:00 GMTBlogsDiscovering she had won first prize in CAR’s competition to spend a year’s motoring in six brand new BMWs had Tracey Lee of Oxfordshire doing a victory dance mid-grocery shop when our associate editor Tim Pollard telephoned with the good...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Guest-Blogs/A-year-of-new-BMWS---by-our-CAR-competition-winner/Fri, 31 Aug 2012 12:00:00 GMTBlogsEnzo Ferrari is a big man. Big, fleshy nose. Big, loose mouth. Big, solid body. The next thing that you notice about him is that he bears about as much resemblance to most car makers and the rest of motor...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Guest-Blogs/The-pride-and-passion-of-Enzo-Ferrari/Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:00:00 GMTBlogs‘What are you going to wear?’ That’s all my friends are interested in. I tell them I’m going to drive the Batmobile from the cult TV series, and all they do is snigger and ask about my clothes. ‘Will you...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Mark-Walton/To-The-Batmobile-CAR-archive-February-2011/Wed, 22 Aug 2012 10:30:00 GMTBlogsWelcome to Part 2 of CAR's Cannonball Re-run from the 2011 archive. If you want to remind yourself of Part 1, please click here. Waking up behind the wheel at 110mph is not a moment to treasure. Especially when Brock...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Cannonball-rerun-part-2-CAR-archive-February-2011/Fri, 17 Aug 2012 10:00:00 GMTBlogsThis feels wrong. We’ve only just arrived at Färjestad – venue for the Super Special Stage that kicks off Rally Sweden – yet in a few seconds I’ll be standing next to Kimi Räikkönen, one-time F1 world champion, now full-time...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Ben-Barry-Blog/Stalking-Kimi-CAR-archive-April-2010/Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:30:00 GMTBlogsGeorg Kacher recently interviewed Fiat and Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne for a feature in CAR Magazine. You can read the full interview, and our scoop on the new Alfa Romeo Giulia and five other new Alfas, in the August 2012...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Georg-Kacher-Blog/The-day-I-met-Sergio-Marchionne-by-Georg-Kacher/Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:58:00 GMTBlogsAt last! After a fortnight of human-powered sporting excellence, London 2012’s final bow brought something for the petrolheads to salivate over, aside from the beach volleyball. In a typically self-deprecating nod to British gridlock, the Olympic stadium’s athletics track was...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Guest-Blogs/The-cars-of-London-2012s-closing-ceremony/Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:00:00 GMTBlogs‘Wanna court summons, buddy? You got it. Hey, Valleccio, take this asshole’s car. And you – get to the station.’ The fact that I’ve arrived in Times Square from New York’s JFK airport in under an hour is an achievement....http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Cannonball-run-part-1/Mon, 13 Aug 2012 10:00:00 GMTBlogsI don’t know why I thought this was a good idea. I’m standing on a tonne of timber piled, unsecured, into the back of a Volkswagen Amarok with the tailgate down, and I’m clinging to its fat chrome roll bar...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/VW-Amarok-in-Patagonia-CAR-archive-April-2010/Sun, 12 Aug 2012 11:00:00 GMTBlogsHe was the right build for a fighter pilot, or a scrum half, and looked younger than his years. Eyes that had scanned the skies from the cockpit of a Hawker Hurricane, half a century before, glinted in Air Vice-Marshal...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Guest-Blogs/Phil-Llewellin-commemorates-the-Battle-of-Britain-Car-archive-August-1990/Fri, 10 Aug 2012 10:00:00 GMTBlogsAfter more than 100 years of electric car dross, at last there’s a good one. The BMW i3, likely to go on sale late next year, is the first intelligently conceived electric car I have experienced. Rather than just a...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Gavin-Green-Blog/Gavin-Green-on-the-worlds-first-good-electric-car/Thu, 09 Aug 2012 11:24:00 GMTBlogsMcLaren people refer to it as Unit 2. It is the polar opposite of their extraordinary, Space Odyssey McLaren Technical Centre headquarters in Woking, with its glass walls and cooling lake and famous architect and unnerving clinical sterility. Instead, Unit...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Ben-Oliver-Blog2/Ben-Oliver-explores-McLarens-Unit-2/Mon, 06 Aug 2012 10:00:00 GMTBlogsTwo years ago, CAR published the definitive list of the most influential design minds in the motor industry. Whether influential, infamous or simply inspired, these are the men responsible for the cars you can buy today, and crucially, the cars...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Guest-Blogs/The-2010-Design-Power-List--CAR-Magazine-August-2010/Fri, 03 Aug 2012 11:00:00 GMTBlogsThe Japanese are about to attack the most difficult market of the lot: supercars. Domination of the small and medium-sized saloon markets, worldwide, has been accomplished. They can also check off the small coupe sector. And the big saloon market,...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Drives/Search-Results/First-drives/Honda-NSX-driven-by-Gavin-Green/Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:00:00 GMTBlogsThey gather on a gorgeous spring day, the sky a deep Bugatti blue, to pay homage to the 60th anniversary of the greatest sports car maker in the world. Nine cars, six of which represent the best of the breed,...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Gavin-Green-Blog/Gavin-Greens-Greatest-Ferraris-of-all-time--Car-magazine-June-2007/Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:00:00 GMTBlogsThere are no 200mph-plus hybrid supercars on sale and then suddenly, like London buses, four come along all at once. The new Ferrari Enzo F150, mega McLaren P12, Porsche 918 Spyder and Jaguar C-X75 will all likely compete in the...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Gavin-Green-Blog/Gavin-Green-gets-the-inside-story-on-Jaguars-new-C-X75-supercar/Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:37:00 GMTBlogsI climbed down into the cockpit of Toyota’s GT86 for the first time and thought for a split second I’d gone through the Stargate, emerging in the late 1980s at the wheel of my beloved MkI MR2. It put a...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Greg-Fountain-Blog/Why-the-GT86-is-the-spiritual-successor-to-Toyotas-first-MR2/Wed, 18 Jul 2012 11:56:00 GMTBlogs‘A new Metro went by me the other day and, to tell you the truth, I thought it was a Citroen AX. And that upset me, because if I can’t tell them apart then what chance has the average motorist...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Gavin-Green-Blog/Gavin-Green-on-why-all-cars-look-the-same/Thu, 12 Jul 2012 10:00:00 GMTBlogsSo the Miura is dead. Beset by pollution problems, hemmed in by speed limits, noise restrictions and the ruinous cost of fuel, and finally knocked on the head by the safety lobby in several countries at once, the last of...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Guest-Blogs/Lamborghini-Miura---the-last-hoorah/Wed, 11 Jul 2012 16:52:00 GMTBlogsA couple of months back I was lucky enough to drive the Caterham SP300R, a slicks and wings racer that bridges the gulf between a Caterham 7 and an F1 car. But before I was allowed to drive the SP300R...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Ben-Barry-Blog/Caterham-Drift-Day/Tue, 10 Jul 2012 10:17:00 GMTBlogsMy elder daughter has just passed her 16th birthday, and she never notches up another year without recalling my original E-type Jaguar. A month before she was born, her mother was taken into hospital for observation; and on that same...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Guest-Blogs/LJK-Setright-on-the-Jaguar-E-type/Mon, 09 Jul 2012 13:33:00 GMTBlogsWe originally ran this story in March 2012, but the BBC moved the schedule. It's now been confirmed the documentary will run this Sunday 8 July 2012 at 8.00pm (BST) after the British grand prix. Now this is why we...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Ben-Oliver-Blog2/Gordon-Murray-documentary-on-BBC4-CARs-preview/Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:00:00 GMTBlogsTo mark the 20th anniversary of the McLaren F1, CAR recently spent an afternoon at home with Gordon Murray, the F1's designer. Don't miss the 10-page feature in the July 2012 issue of CAR Magazine, out now. Here are a...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Tim-Pollard-Blog2/Twelve-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-McLaren-F1/Fri, 06 Jul 2012 11:18:00 GMTBlogs