April

The first Autocar magazine of the new century was a cracker: official details of MG’s hot new roadster, the F Trophy 160 SE, conceived to do battle with the BMW Z3 via its 158bhp engine and £21,000 pr

WORRIED YOU WEREN’T spending enough on your £92k M3 wagon? Lucky you, you can now spend an extra £35k on a hardcore CS version. You’ll buy it for the extra power, prowess and remarkable precision, but

£54,995 OTR/£55,540 as tested/£970 pcm WHY IT’S HERE: Because it’s quite simply the only purely electric sports car in the world (for now...) DRIVER: OLLIE KEW A FACT FOR YOUR ULTIMATE CAR nerd file:

Ididn’t know Richard Parry-Jones when I travelled to Saint-Tropez in January 1993 to drive a new Ford. But without knowing it, I was already feeling his influence. The car was the replacement for the

JAMES ATTWOOD Illya, shall we start with your Mini, given that it’s from 2001? ILLYA VERPRAET It’s significant on a number of levels. Originally it was meant to be just a car, but BMW built a whole br

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