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Car manufacturing: an odd thing with which to fall in love, I grant you. I didn’t expect it either. But the moment remains seared on my brain and there it will stay...
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Millbrook Proving Ground turns 50 this year. This pocket of Bedfordshire close to the M1 is where car engineers hone forthcoming cars and test them to destruction...
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Often when I interviewed Tobias Moers during his years as chief engineer and then the boss of Mercedes-AMG, Birgit Zaiser, the lady from the Daimler press office...
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Never mind the stripped-out interior, the polycarbonate windows or the carbon fibre bonnet. The most amazing thing about the 2009 Renault Sport Megane R26.R...
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Buying a new car as an 18-year-old. Does this call for a trip to the local Vauxhall dealer? A used car supermarket, perhaps? Well, for me, it was a dash over the English Channel...
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I never wanted to be a motoring journalist in the same way I never wanted to be an astronaut or a Hollywood A-lister. There is no point wanting something entirely beyond your reach...
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It was a moment when all the stars aligned: right road, right weather, right car. Alone in a Porsche 911 in the Welsh mountains, early enough to have the Beacons to myself...
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Dear Colin, Autocar seems to publish a story almost every month about Jaguar’s next new plan for salvation. What would you do to give Jaguar a new lease of life and secure its future...?