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Andrew Frankel is a naughty man. He recently whispered in my ear ‘C’mon, David. All these stories of designers and engineers working happily together is not what the...
Motorsport
Does one particular car come to mind when you consider the intersection of Japanese ingenuity and Britain’s storied automotive industry? Perhaps the McLaren MP4/4...
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Twenty years ago the last of the original Minis wheezed its way off the Longbridge line, bringing to an end 41 years of production. In that time the Mini became the best-selling...
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We have, it should be said, been here before. A brave new Lotus for a Brave New World. A car that really does promise it all. Performance, handling and lightweight...
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Time was (and I remember it well), you could phone up Volkswagen’s R&D director and ask him for help with an obscure technical point. Admittedly Prof Ulrich Seiffert...
Motorsport
When I look back at all the drivers who have arrived in Formula 1 over the years, I see some who did so with vast natural talent and others who hustled their way in...
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Forty five years ago it was less a birth, more a marriage. In 1976 that Giugiaro-penned hatchback body was wed to a fuel-injected engine, and the original Volkswagen Golf GTI...
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It was a private mother-and-son moment that transcended their roles as European automotive nobility. Ferdinand Piëch, proud engineer and CEO of Audi, was parading...