Car culture articles

CAR tested hundreds of cars in 2015: which was fastest, slowest, cheapest – and which came with its own sofa?

Twenty years after Colin McRae’s first world rally win, Jimmy McRae picks the moments that mean most to him

When the weather turns frosty, car companies’ marketing departments get creative

Yes, someone has built a Lamborghini Murcielago drift car. Watch it 'battle' a Mustang in Japan here

BMW’s M Sport division, dazed by punches over SUVs and turbos, roars out of its corner armed with a new M2 and Batmobiley M4 GTS. From deep inside its Garching HQ we have the full story

Driving roof down to the roof of the world: the drive story that will never be topped

Join Nissan Academy champ and world-class racer Lucas Ordonez for a flying lap of Fuji during the 2015 Nismo Festival

Rewind to the mid-1980s, when the Japanese car industry had Europe's automotive bosses running scared. CAR's 'East beats West' cover story revealed why

Meet the LP580-2, the lighter, less expensive, rear-wheel-drive version of Lamborghini’s V10 supercar. They call it ‘entry level’. We’re calling it the Huracan we’ve been waiting for

Legendary rocker’s daily driver: ‘History of the Universe’ 1964 Porsche 356 Cabriolet

While bosses were toppling like nine-pins during dieselgate, all around the VW Group engineers kept working on the cars to make us forgive those emissions test sins. And here’s the first – the most...

Is it a car or is it an actual mobile gin palace? New Rolls-Royce Cocktail Hamper means it can be both

We drive the Mercedes' W06 F1 car (CAR+ January 2016)

BMW’s new 7-series heads into an all-German limo final with the Panamera and reigning S-class. Is there a new best seat in the house?

The Continental GT Speed is Bentley’s fastest road car yet. Last year Australia’s Northern Territory once again lifted the speed limit on the Stuart Highway. Can you see where this is going?

Tesla looked to have Electric Avenue all to itself, but suddenly there’s heavy traffic. VW Group may have lost its diesel footing, but its two premium brands are alive and well – and going electric

In the tracks of Bluebird at the terrifyingly desolate Lake Eyre in the Australian Outback

He was crazy but compelling, brave but foolhardy. CAR met the late, great stunt-rider extraordinaire for one of his last ever interviews

First there was LaFerrari, now here’s F12 ‘tour de france’. We don’t know what started Ferrari’s love affair with its French neighbours, but it’s hot stuff

CAR's celebrated car critic tests the most Super of Cinqs for the first time

007’s driven everything, from the sublime to the ridiculous. Question is, which star car is the CAR readers’ star?

New world record set for a passenger-packed ‘side wheelie’ – here’s how

Moment of truth: first drive of the new 991.2 Carrera S, on video

Flashback: when we first drove the Boxster roadster in October 1996

The Focus that beggars belief: 0-62mph in 4.7sec, 4wd - for £28k

Carbonfibre and hybrid tech revive German eco credentials

Red-hot newcomers from BMW, Jag, Tesla and Alpine

Turbocharged? a Mercedes backbone? this car redefines Aston Martin

You thought the veyron was quick? This 275mph phenomenon is lined up to be THE 2016 supercar

Tech-laden NSX will bring brains and brawn to the 911/Audi R8/McLaren 570S battleground