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We’ve never run a manufacturer-supplied car before. We don’t have a long-term fleet. Given as there’s only Dan and me fronting this thing, it would represent a somewhat ambitious...
Motorsport
As I wrote in an earlier article, I believe great racing drivers are both born and made – it's a combination of nature and nurture. For several decades, teams and manufacturers...
Features
I was on my way to drive a modified Mini Cooper S when the call came. It didn’t matter how close I was to the tuning company’s workshop, said the voice. I had to turn around...
Universe
A century ago this month, a very great man died in less than great circumstances. Aged just 47, early in the morning of January 5th 1922, Sir Ernest Shackleton called his doctor...
Features
Dear Colin, If you could do a safari version of any car, no matter how outrageous, what would it be? Maybe one car that would make a lot of sense and another that would just be hilarious...
Features
As the white-and-pale-blue bulk of a Co-op lorry fills the road ahead, I know that the good times are over. At least for a while. This bit of the A890 that hugs the southern shoreline...
Features
In my other life, I have run various cars on Autocar magazine’s long-term test fleet for years. Some have been affordable and practical – most recently a BMW 128Ti and a Ford Focus ST...
Motorsport
There were a couple of crummy garages down at far the end of the Le Mans pits, just where the grandee-team cars would open up the throttles as they rejoined the 24-hour race...