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Dreams do come true: Aston Martin to build 99 Vanquish Zagato Coupes

Aston Martin to build 99 Vanquish Zagato Coupés

Aston Martin has lifted the spirits of car enthusiasts and wealthy supercar collectors the world over, after announcing that it will put the Vanquish...
Published 22 June 2016
British drivers of 'runaway' Jeep Grand Cherokee urged to take care when parking

British Jeep owners urged to take care when parking

British drivers of the Jeep Grand Cherokee are being warned to take extra care when parking and operating the vehicle’s automatic gearbox...
Published 21 June 2016
Me and My Motor: Cerys Matthews of Catatonia on family cars and beaten-up trucks

Me and My Motor: Cerys Matthews of Catatonia

Before Catatonia became one of the top-selling groups of the 1990s, Cerys Matthews and her bandmates spent many long nights driving home...
Published 21 June 2016
"Shocking" Le Mans 24 Hours sees heartbreak for Toyota, delight for Ford

Heartbreak for Toyota in last-minute Le Mans defeat

The most dramatic sport story of the weekend didn’t happen on a football pitch or a tennis court; nor did it involve Lewis Hamilton and a cranky...
Published 20 June 2016

Land Rover sues Chinese car maker over Range Rover...

The Chinese maker of the Landwind X7 has reportedly been served with "newly filed actions surrounding copyright and unfair competition" over the alleged...
Published 17 June 2016
Clarkson and May give a lift to David Cameron and the “Remain” EU campaign

Clarkson and May give lift to David Cameron and 'remain'...

Jeremy Clarkson and James May have become dab hands at entertaining VIP visitors to their production offices, so when David Cameron dropped in to...
Published 17 June 2016
Rolls-Royce gets radical with luxury car of the future

Rolls-Royce gets radical with luxury car of the future

When we imagine a Roll-Royce, images spring to mind of deep-pile carpets, lashings of leather, acres of wood trim, a couple of Dartington crystal...
Published 17 June 2016
Me and My Motor: Emily Collett, British aerobatics champion, on the planes that made her

Me and My Motor: Emily Collett, British aerobatics...

At the age of nine, Emily Collett looked in awe at an F18 jet fighter and announced firmly: “When I grow up, I’m going to be an engineer and fly...
Published 13 June 2016
New 2017 Renault Clio pricing, details and pictures

Modest makeover for France's popular Renault Clio supermini

Coming from one of the most opinionated nations on earth, the facelift of the Renault Clio, one of France’s most enduring cars, seems as subtle...
Published 13 June 2016
Me and My Motor: actor Patrick Dempsey on starring in Le Mans, for real

Me and My Motor: Patrick Dempsey

Like Steve McQueen and Paul Newman before him, Patrick Dempsey has combined a successful Hollywood career with a decent turn as a racing driver...
Published 13 June 2016
Driver on phone

Motorists demand £200 fine and more penalty points...

Motorists feel the imminent stiffening in the penalty for using a phone at the wheel will not prove any more of a deterrent. In a survey of 2,100...
Published 13 June 2016
Me and My Motor: Le Mans winner Allan McNish on motoring loves. . . and losses

Me and My Motor: Le Mans winner Allan McNish

Allan McNish, three-time winner of the Le Mans 24 Hours race, hails from an unlikely motoring mecca. His birth town of Dumfries and nearby Kirkcudbright...
Published 10 June 2016