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Landmarks Of The M40 Calendar 2023

The 'boring' M40 calendar that's a road to success

Calendar featuring views of the M40 motorway has picked up orders from all over the world.
Published 01 November 2022
Guglielmo Marconi wireless radio tests with Daimler

The Times archive: first in-car radio trial

Almost exactly 100 years ago, a technology trial by a leading German car maker and a British telecoms firm sowed the seed for in-car audio.
Published 01 November 2022
Jeremy Clarkson 296 GTB review

Jeremy Clarkson's Ferrari 296 GTB verdict is in

Clarkson’s dislike of most hybrid cars is well documented, but when one comes with 819bhp it's a different matter.
Published 31 October 2022
Scary movie cars: The Hearse

Nine of the best cars from scary movies

We've rated nine of the best cars from scary movies - some legendary, some less well-known, but all with a healthy dose of the sinister.
Published 27 October 2022
Ford reveals updated Fiesta

Official: Fiesta axed as company shifts to EVs

Ford is to end production of the Fiesta supermini, and S-Max and Galaxy MPVs, as it focuses on a new all-electric future.
Published 26 October 2022
2023 Lotus Eletre

Lotus Eletre price, power, range

Full specifications and price of the new Lotus Eletre electric SUV have been revealed as the British firm embarks on a new zero-emissions era.
Published 26 October 2022
Gordon Murray Surrey HQ topping out ceremony

Legendary designer's new supercar HQ

Top automotive designer Gordon Murray has completed the first phase of an all-new global headquarters in Surrey.
Published 25 October 2022
Jeremy Clarkson Ford F-150

Jeremy Clarkson has found an EV he wants

Jeremy Clarkson admits disliking electric cars but the new battery powered Ford F-150 pick-up proves he can still fall for an electric *vehicle*.
Published 24 October 2022
Pendragon car dealership hack

Car dealer 'won't be held hostage' by hackers

The UK's second-largest car retailer is refusing to pay a ransom demand for $60m (£54m) from dark web hackers.
Published 21 October 2022
The WiLL Vi that crashed into Japan's oldest toilets

Driver reverses into Japan’s oldest toilet

A 15th-century lavatory in Japan has been badly damaged after a motorist accidentally reversed his car into the building at a Buddhist temple.
Published 19 October 2022
Motorist filling up a hydrogen-fuelled car at a Shell station

Shell shuts hydrogen stations

Petroleum giant Shell has announced the closure of all three of its hydrogen refuelling facilities in Britain amid low demand from motorists.
Published 19 October 2022
2023 Rolls-Royce Spectre

Electric Spectre is 'most perfect Rolls ever'

Rolls-Royce has fully unveiled its first electric car, the Spectre, which, it claims, is the fulfilment of a prophecy by one of its co-founders.
Published 18 October 2022