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Opera is dead. And has been for quite a long time. I don’t care what anybody says about Poulenc and Prokofiev, I cannot be persuaded that any listenable music theatre has been written since Puccini. (

Former CAR editor Gavin Green is now one ...

OF ALL THE cars this fabled designer is responsible for, his favourite may or may not surprise you. It’s the archly utilitarian Fiat Panda. But we’ll get to that. ‘It is somehow easy,’ he says, ‘to cr

LEGENDARY CAR DESIGNER Giorgetto Giugiaro has joined the select list of winners of the Lifetime Achievement Award, at the 2025 International Historic Motoring Awards, Presented by Lockton. The 87-year

Renault’s Twingo returns, cute and electric. But is it a design great like Apple’s G3 iMac – or indeed the original Twingo? Critic Stephen Bayley referees

Provost knows how to get bureaucrats on board ...