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On one of my early visits to China, I was asked what inspired me as a car designer. And I replied rather earnestly that the collaboration of Shang Xia that brought together...
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Shoot a cuff, shoot a villain, shoot a withering look at the stirring barman; Ba-da dum, Ba-da dum! Bond is back. Now, you have probably already devoured...
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Just days after stealing the limelight at the Turin show, the Focus arrived on Turin’s Via Panoramica, a twisty piece of two-lane blacktop that’s so challenging motorbikes are banned...
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Apart from a few meaningless trinkets from the world of not very serious motor racing, I’ve only ever won three things. The first was the Form IIIB history prize when I was eight...
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Directly opposite my desk, sitting atop my model cabinet, is a voluptuous one-tenth scale clay model of an open sports car. It’s a daily reminder of a unique concept car about which...
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Munich. Midnight. My fingertips are black with brake dust as I crouch next to a huge 21-inch wheel. The sound of sparse but swiftly moving traffic is punctuated by the brrrrrrrrrr...
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In 1989, when the Tokyo motor show moved 30km from downtown to Makuhari, the only practicable way from the city (where most of the press and manufacturers stayed) was by train...
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In the mid Seventies, car magazine editors like me were racing to pull off the big one: comparing the Ferrari 365 GT4 Berlinetta Boxer, Lamborghini Countach LP400 and Porsche 911 Turbo...