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Life on the line

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 at 50

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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Interview: Aston Martin CEO Tobias Moers

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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How the R26.R got its belts

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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Teenage kicks

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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How not to become a motoring journalist: Part one

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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The Targa’s time has come

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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Ask Goodwin

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...?

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