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The first supercar?

There’s a myth that LJK Setright coined the term supercar in 1967 in a story he wrote for Car magazine about driving a Lamborghini Miura 1000 miles from Modena to London...

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The birth of the quattro

Until 1980 Audi was a bit part player on the world stage, but the quattro changed all that. Peter Robinson talks to the people responsible for its creation

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The power of three

Corner my Triking three-wheeler hard and if the tyres were gripping, you judged cornering limits on the inside front wheel; any more than six inches off the ground...

Driven Archive

Toyota GR86 review

For the very last time I have dug out a notebook, stuffed my laptop into a bag, checked and rechecked that I have my passport with me, driven to an airport...

Universe

The Caterham of the skies

Judging by some of the Hunter S. Thompson style tales I’ve heard in bars late at night on magazine group tests, I think I joined the orbit of motoring journalism...

Features

The fatal flaw

There’s a phrase I used to hear quite a lot in my early years in the business, but less so today; which is good, because then as now it annoys the hell...

Motorsport

From hate to hero

All those championships and countless race wins, twirling a finger by the side of his head after that Turkey shunt in 2010 to tell us Webber was mad, Multi-21...

Features

The 0-60 man

Tom McCahill invented the 0-60mph acceleration test. British motoring magazines like The Autocar and The Motor performance tested cars more than 20 years...

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