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Semi-auto ’boxes
Once, there were manual gearboxes and there were slushy autos. Then came The Future: the paddleshift semi-auto. By Ben Miller. 1955...
You drive our cars: BMW 8-series – readers try the editor’s 2019 BMW M850i xDrive G15
‘A most extraordinary machine’. Three Drive-My readers come at BMW’s new flagship M850i from three very different directions. One will come away deeply impressed… By Ben Miller Barry.
2020 Porsche 911 Carrera S 992 vs. 2020 Audi R8 V10 Type 4S and 2019 McLaren 570S
Giant test: 2020 Porsche 911 Carrera S 992 vs 2019 Audi R8 vs 2019 McLaren 570S. Latest 911 cross-examined by its closest rivals. That...
125 years of Mercedes motorsport
Life, death, beauty, heroism, Hitler and the 190mph Mercedes. This year, Mercedes celebrates 125 years of racing. Its greatest car? Dick Seaman’s impossibly pretty,...
1988 Ferrari 208 GTS Turbo
Road test GTS turbo. The GTO’s little brother 208 Turbo on the road. Developed to beat the taxman, this 2.0-litre turbo version of the...
Used 2015 Porsche Panamera S E-Hybrid 970 or new 2019 Audi A7 Sportback 50 TDI Sport 4G9
Icon Buyer Used Porsche Panamera or new Audi A7? Take the smooth with the smooth £50k gets you a sleek new Audi, but for...
1962 Aston Martin DB4 Series 5 Vantage road test
DB4-play Road-test pilot Ben Barry gets intimate with a DB4 Vantage Series 5 as he takes it on a whistlestop tour through Aston country. ...
BMW M3 E36 road test
BMW M3 E36 Grab the Munich legend while you still can. The M3 looks better with each passing year. Its time has come. The...
1994 Group Road Test Bugatti EB 110 vs. Ferrari F40 and Jaguar XJ220
Blessed things. They’re massively fast, monstrously large and wickedly expensive, but are the world’s fastest cars a delight or a disaster on the road? Mark Gillies finds out. Photographs By Tim Andrew.
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