Yesterday was a memorable day for me. Not only did I get to test drive the new, most powerful production Subaru Impreza, but better still I got a behind-the-scenes tour of the premises of the company responsible for it.
If you don’t know it, Cosworth is one of the world’s foremost high performance engine builders. Its [...]

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Heard a bizarre rumour about Bentley the other day, from a source that would appear to be 100 per cent watertight.
Apparently, the powers that be within the company have decided behind closed doors recently that a Bentley isn’t a proper Bentley unless it’s powered by a massive pushrod V8 – much like the massive pushrod [...]

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This weekend I got my hands on the new Mini Countryman. There's been much head-scratching about this car. Firstly, it's not very Mini. Secondly, rather than just building a more compact Golf, the Countryman is masquerading as a kind of Los Angeles soft-roader.
If you've got a Saturday afternoon on your hands – and you like [...]

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The entire complexion of the F1 business is set to change significantly from 2013.
Not only will there be a new Concorde agreement governing the commercial rights income distribution from such lucrative areas as television coverage contracts, trackside advertising and corporate hospitality, but also bold new technical rules which will change the Grand Prix landscape for [...]

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It never ceases to amaze me how many opportunities us car nuts have to get a fix in the UK. I'm not just talking about the headline grabbing events like Goodwood, Pistonheads Sunday Services or big motorsport meetings either.
Every weekend up and down the country there's always car-related stuff to see or do: single make [...]

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The entire complexion of the F1 business is set to change significantly from 2013.
Not only will there be a new Concorde agreement governing the commercial rights income distribution from such lucrative areas as television coverage contracts, trackside advertising and corporate hospitality, but also bold new technical rules which will change the Grand Prix landscape for [...]

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It was interesting to read Editor Chas Hallett’s blog that a used Ferrari is still a good Ferrari, but let's be honest – is a Ferrari ever truly ‘used’ in the accepted sense of the word?
I would argue that there are some cars which never truly become used. I believe that they miss all the [...]

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Okay, this one’s a bit more complex because it involves the twists and undulations of Donington, plus a more disparate range of cars, but the question itself is exactly the same: what’s fastest?
I’m talking about the short circuit at Donington – in other words, not the one that includes the Melbourne loop. And despite what [...]

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The Bowler Wildcat is now made by Qt, and we’ve reviewed the physics-bending off-roader on video
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Last week I spent two days in Berlin with Mazda getting an intensely detailed low down on the mechanical building blocks that will underpin the vast majority of its future models. We even managed to spend two hours sampling Mazda’s new engines and transmissions on the German roads, which were bolted into an early version [...]

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