http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/shared/handlers/rsshandler.ashx?N=692+712&Ns=P_Publication_Date|1CAR Online | Blogs | CAR50 RSS Feed(c) 2013, Bauer Media. All rights reserved.30This 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 GMTBlogsThe rules are simple: staying in the company of your car, just how far can you travel in one 24-hour period? Cape Wrath? Oslo? Bantry Bay? Sarajevo? It’s an adventure I’ve been itching to talk the entire staff of CAR...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Anthony-Ffrench-Constant-blog/CAR-visits-a--world-without-cars-CAR-magazine-April-2010/Thu, 05 Jul 2012 10:00:00 GMTBlogsIt is five years since Ayrton Senna lost his life in that horror crash at Imola. Few of us will ever forget how we felt that day, but how did the tragedy affect those closest to the man considered to...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Guest-Blogs/Senna-Forever--five-years-retrospective-CAR-archive--May-1999/Mon, 02 Jul 2012 13:20:00 GMTBlogsJust over a decade ago Russell Bulgin and a few close friends had a ‘last lunch’ in a Soho restaurant. Russell knew he was dying. He was frail, his grey skin the texture of tissue. He could barely walk unaided....http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Gavin-Green-Blog/Gavin-Green-pays-tribute-to-CAR-columnist-and-writer-Russell-Bulgin-who-died-10-years-ago/Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:41:00 GMTBlogsMy first visit to McLaren was 1967, organised by a dutiful parent with industry connections. In those days the premises was an insanitary lock-up garage on a Weybridge trading estate. A boggle-eyed schoolboy, I was admiring the M6 Can-Am car....http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Stephen-Bayley-blog/Bayley-visits-the-McLaren-Technology-Centre-CAR-archive-April-2007/Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:09:00 GMTBlogsI am a young executive. No cuffs than mine are cleaner; I have a Slimline briefcase and I use the firm’s Cortina. By 1982, when it finally went out of production, the Ford Cortina had enjoyed a 20-year Tescopoly on...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Ben-Oliver-Blog2/Ford-Cortina-/Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:25:00 GMTBlogs£540k might appositely be spent on a 540K – that late pre-war Mercedes-Benz which went one better than the McLaren F1 by being not only utterly useless but also devilishly handsome. Declaring my conviction that such money could be far...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/Community/Car-Magazines-Blogs/Guest-Blogs/How-LJK-Setright-would-spend-540000-on-cars-CAR-magazine-archive-June-1994/Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:08:00 GMTBlogsToday we launch the #CAR50 microsite as the digital home for CAR's golden anniversary in autumn 2012. It's where you'll find heaps of new content exploring CAR's history, from the cream of our 50-year archive to every single front cover...http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/CAR50/CAR50-microsite-the-online-home-for-CARs-golden-anniversary/Wed, 20 Jun 2012 08:00:00 GMTBlogs