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LEANING ON YOUR heritage doesn’t guarantee success in the automotive world. Sure, the ‘new’ Fiat 500 and Mini hatch have been massive hits, but the reimagined Volkswagen Beetle never really took off i

T HE CAR PARK AT OUR HOTEL HAS TAKEN ON THE role of a truck stop. It’s early Monday morning and what would ordinarily be a sleepy nook behind a retail park in southeastern France has become a temporar

A decade on since the two millionth Land Rover Defender was made, and 35 years since its launch, we look back on why it remains Britain’s favoured go-anywhere vehicle of choice

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The sky is overcast, and being somewhere on a single track road near the bottom of the Lake District’s Hardknott Pass at 11pm, that dark is reliably inky, unbothered by even the barest lumen of ambien