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Rotary engine comes round again with Mazda RX-Vision...

Mazda should have been on to a winner with the RX-8 sports car. On its launch in 2003 it won rave reviews for the way it looked and drove. But the...
Published 28 October 2015
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Self-driving Nissan IDS concept will learn your road...

NISSAN HAS unveiled an autonomous concept car at this week's Tokyo show that can learn your driving style and copy it when driving itself
Published 28 October 2015
Products: When You Dead, You Dead by Guy Martin book review

Products: When You Dead, You Dead, by Guy Martin

Guy Martin is the Fred Dibnah of the Millennial Generation, with a similar gift of the gab and an equal passion for engines and engineering. But whereas...
Published 28 October 2015
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Jaguar Land Rover: James Bond's ultimate nemesis? Spectre's...

James Bond may get to drive the ultra-slick Aston Martin DB10 in Spectre but surely the chaps having the real fun are the villains...
Published 27 October 2015
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What do I need to know about classic car insurance?

Q. In 2000 I had two cars on standard insurance with the maximum no-claims bonus
Published 26 October 2015
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Car of the week: Toyota Mirai

Typical. You wait ages for a hydrogen-powered car to come along and two arrive at once
Published 26 October 2015
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Top Gear: behind the scenes with script editor Richard...

As his new book takes readers behind the scenes of Top Gear, the show’s former script editor Richard Porter confesses that the show’s best moments...
Published 26 October 2015
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Vauxhall Zafira fire fears: DVSA safety body says investigation...

It is every driver’s worst fear: a faint whiff of smoke enters the cabin of the car, and within a matter of seconds, there’s a fire raging away...
Published 23 October 2015
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New Mini convertible can tell drivers to close the...

Forget California, Tuscany or Provence: their drivers don’t love a convertible as much as Brits. At least, they don’t love the Mini convertible...
Published 22 October 2015
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Stanford University creates driverless DeLorean that’ll...

It's October 21, 2015 (a.k.a. Back to the Future "Future Day") and the car of the moment is the DeLorean DMC-12 – you can’t move for stories centred...
Published 21 October 2015
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Interview: Danny Rogers, the man who invented the Flux...

Danny Rogers is a British graphic designer for film and TV turned producer who designed the core component that made time travel possible...
Published 21 October 2015
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Hey, Lexus, we need to borrow your . . . hoverboard

Flying cars, self-drying jackets, "sneakers" that fasten themselves, instant messages via fax: Back to the Future Part II, which was released in 1989...
Published 21 October 2015