The year is 1980. You are a World Rally Championship competitor. You have spent years developing your rear-wheel drive car to a fine edge. You have learned its limits, managed its weaknesses, extracted everything the regulations allow. You arrive at…
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Toyota's marketing department has spent the last fortnight watching its rivals admit defeat. Lotus said the EV future…
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Peter Schutz joined Porsche as chief executive in January 1981. Within his first week, he walked into a…
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The Cannonball Run was invented by a man who believed the national speed limit was an affront to personal liberty, and who proceeded to prove his point by driving coast to coast as fast as possible. Over fifty years later,…
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Somewhere in Kyushu, on a mountain road that rises 700 metres above sea level into a national park, photographer Larry Chen is attempting to control a Honda Civic Type R FL5 on winter tyres. The car is spinning its front…
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On the morning of Saturday 14 June, at Circuit de la Sarthe, 62 cars will line up for…
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Every car show in North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia has at least one of them: a Honda…
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There is a quiet, faintly awkward statistic doing the rounds in Detroit board rooms this morning, and nobody…
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The United Kingdom has just passed two million registered electric cars. It is also, simultaneously, missing its own…
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Four years ago, Lotus stood up at the launch of the Emira and told the assembled press, with…
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