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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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The wonder of titanium

You see, when I saw that Andrew and Dan were changing the name of DriveNation to The Intercooler, and hence rebranding it from DN to […]

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The true cost of EV motoring

Any motoring journalist will be thoroughly fed up with the now daily barrage of electric car hyperbole of brain-frazzling irrelevance. Using a long stick to sort through this morning’s...

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The day I met Enzo Ferrari: Part two

In the old days, visiting Ferrari depended on the good offices of Dottore Franco Gozzi who was officially Ferrari's Press Officer but in truth was Enzo’s advisor and confidant...

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Sweat, shit and switches

Next time you reach for a switch in your car, spare a thought for the engineers who designed and tested it. Of course, they have done the obvious – produced an attractive, comfortable...

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