CAR (UK)

A return to manual windows? I’d be keen

This magazine loves nothing more than an adventure drive with a narrative; a purpose beyond covering miles for the sake of it. Not for us the wafer-thin whimsy of driving a long way for no real reason. No, CAR goes places to answer questions, to pull...

Renault’s £18k gamechanger

CAN THE REBORN TWINGO BRING THE RETRO 5 MAGIC?

Cars are hard to beat at getting you to new places

Sometimes the universe gives you a nudge, and before you know it you’ve spent hours rummaging through piles of old magazines in your attic, pausing to read something, which sends you off in a different direction to read something else, and then you’re...

Taycan tormentor

Flat out in the new Polestar 5 aiming to outgun Porsche

‘Nostalgia is a shelter from the current turbulence’

Usually I’m one of those killjoys discouraging a rose-tinted view of the past. Old cars broke down all the time. Brakes didn’t work. Rust ate your bodywork. And those fumes from the school bus… Leaking sunroofs bad, Google Maps good. And usually I’m...

‘V12 engines don’t make much sense, but so what?’

Better to have loved and lost? Perhaps, but getting into Formula 1 just as the curtain fell on the last of the V12s still hurt, like arriving in Rome just as the Germanic barbarians were preparing their coup de grâce. Clearly, to my young mind at...

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WHERE W|LL CAR TAKE YOU?

CAR is thriving – join us on the journey What other magazine would dare to take a (briefly) shiny new Ferrari Purosangue to the windblown expanses of the Sahara desert? Or drive a very secondhand Fiat Panda all the way back from Andorra to the UK?...

WHERE WILL CAR TAKE YOU?

CAR is thriving – join us on the journey What other magazine would dare to take a (briefly) shiny new Ferrari Purosangue to the windblown expanses of the Sahara desert? Or drive a very secondhand Fiat Panda all the way back from Andorra to the UK?...

Rivals’ failures shed light on the success of the 3-series

Alfa is used to it, but being the underdog is a strange position for Mercedes, Toyota and Audi to find themselves in. And yet that is exactly what the BMW 3-series has done to those automotive giants, for generations now. Try as they might, their...

Mega Defender!

Land Rover’s 626bhp Dakar wannabe driven

AMG’s 1000bhp Taycan rival

Forget everything you thought you knew about Jaguar. Here’s the future

Inside Ferrari’s next-level hypercar, the formidable new F80

Charles Leclerc is delighted. ‘We’ve finally done a car with a “normal” driving position,’ he says. To understand just how pin-sharp the new Ferrari hypercar should be when it arrives in late 2025, it’s worth taking a moment to consider ‘normal’ in...

If one car is sensible, the other can be indulgent, like an Elise

We use these phrases all the time – dream garage, ultimate two-car garage – and they don’t really stand up very well to rigorous linguistic analysis. For a start, pedantically, not many of us actually keep cars in garages. A quick audit of mine...

Goodbye Huracan, hello Temerario: Lamborghini’s latest hybrid in detail

Turns out they weren’t kidding. It’s hybrids everywhere you look in the Lamborghini line-up. The Revuelto is a hybrid (p66). The latest Urus, the SE, is a hybrid. And now this, the Huracan-replacing Temerario, confirming that naturally-aspirated,...

Crisis! Despair! Golf! How it saved VW

GTS gains a hybrid boost as Porsche upgrades the 911 range

1 |T ST|LL DR|VES L|KE A 911 I’m a 911 GT3 purist/bore. I’ll tell you about 9000rpm redlines and throttle response and how turbocharged 911s can’t compete with their lag and lower revs. But it takes precious little seat time in the new Carrera GTS to...

Extra stories on your phone

Too late for the magazine, our first drive of the updated Rolls-Royce Cullinan will be on your phone as soon as we publish it.