We are currently up north driving a very special little car. Look for a full First Drive of the fantastic little Audi S1 very shortly…
Tag: Turbo
We rather liked the Holden Trax when it was launched late last year, but we weren’t exactly in love with the venerable 1.8-litre petrol engine that did reluctant, noisy duty under the stubby bonnet. But now Holden has stuck a modern engine in the cutesy Trax – the 103kW/200Nm 1.4-litre iTi turbo four-cylinder petrol that […]
Rarely has one letter and one number meant so much when joined together. They are M and 3. This is exactly the sort of embarrassingly pretentious and utterly wanky prose that the BMW M3 inspires. As soon as I wrote it, I regretted it. But it serves as a great example of what the […]
Once upon a time a sports car company built an SUV. This made a lot of people very angry, but it also made a lot of other people very, very happy. Fortunately for the sports car company, the people it made happy bought quite a lot of them, saving the company from almost certain financial […]
It has been a while since the incredible Mark Higgins broke his own lap record for a car around the Isle of Man TT course, but the video of his lap from inside the car and with a commentary from the man himself has just surfaced. And it is very much worth a watch..
Like most living things, cars also grow up. Some “evolve”, some “mature” and some just get old and useless. The Subaru WRX has grown up a lot with its latest incarnation and the best word to use would probably be “mature”. But don’t take that to mean it has come over all serious and sober […]
The Volkswagen Golf has always been one of those cars that has covered the entire spectrum of car uses, from basic company rep car to searingly quick high performance icon. And let’s face it, as good as the Golf is in any form, the really hot one is always the most interesting one. It is […]
The WRX has always had the strong whiff of Boy Racer around it, much to Subaru’s displeasure. Sure, no company really minds if complete cocks buy their cars – it means they are selling cars, after all – but pouring billions of dollars into development, winning numerous rally championships and other motorsport accolades and generally […]
Big noise and big power. The American manufacturers understand the appeal of this concept and so do the Aussie manufacturers. But you know who else understands the appeal of big, fast, noisy cars? The Germans. The Mercedes-Benz E 63S AMG is one of the biggest, noisiest, fastest cars to come out of Germany and it […]
Sometimes car companies don’t put much thought into their car names. Take, for example, the Maserati Quattroporte. The name translates literally into “Four Door” in English. This may be a revelation to anyone who hasn’t actually noticed that the car has four doors, but to the rest of us it is blindingly obvious. But Maserati […]
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