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Almost Great: Nissan 300ZX

You always remember your first time. For me, it was late at night, on one of those roads that rolls and whoops across Dartmoor. It was pitch-dark and raining – not that hard...

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Colour my judgement

Parked outside is the sort of paint job that makes you blearily glance at your watch at 4am and wonder why the sun is up and streaming in round the curtain edges. Audi calls it Python Yellow...

Motorsport

Champ or chump?

Interlagos, November 25th, 2012. As the pack exits turn four, our man is facing the wrong way. Three corners ago he was champion elect: now nothing less than a Herculean...

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The man who saved Jaguar

The meal had been lavish and the wine magnificent beneath the chandelier of the ancient dining room in The Welcombe Hotel, a grand old English country house just outside Stratford-Upon-Avon...

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What Murray did next

There is no shortage of candidates, but of all the people I’ve met in this industry, there are few, if any, more extraordinary than Gordon Murray. And I don’t mean because he’s a designer...

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Tell Tale: The birth of petrol

Petrol was invented in the East End of London. I don't mean the actual substance: a great brown-black crude oil gusher didn't suddenly erupt on the Bethnal Green Road...

Universe

The Colditz Cock

When I was a child and all my friends were playing Monopoly – a truly awful game whose popularity mystifies me to this day – I instead used to practice escaping from prison...

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The problem with synthetic fuels

‘We don’t want to get into the fuel business’ has been a perennial cry from the motor industry. But that’s changed fast in recent years as car makers invest in electric recharging networks...

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