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Making EVs fun to drive: Part two

Can EVs ever be genuinely fun to drive? Ever the optimist that I am, I’ve pinned my colours squarely to the ‘yes’ mast. Clearly, mass is the enemy of fun, but I see ways in...

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Over and out

Twenty five years after it was introduced, there is nothing new to be written about the Lotus Elise. Except this: goodbye and thank you for the memories...

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Making EVs fun to drive: Part one

Back in 2009, I was leading the team developing the Renault Zoe. The only people crazy enough to dabble in electric vehicles back then were Tesla and the Nissan-Renault Alliance...

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An operatic tragedy

The tram terminus on Milan's Piazza Castello lies opposite the leafy entrance to the Castello Sforzesco and its Filarete Tower. It was there, in 1910, that legend places Romano Cattaneo...

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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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