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Speed, we often point out, is a commodity less freely available to drivers on British roads than it used to be. On safety grounds that’s probably okay, given the growing population of cars and the fai

Christmas is a time of comforting traditions, isn’t it? In our household, Christmas begins in early December with a showing of The Muppet Christmas Carol while we wrestle the Christmas tree into place

What do you do if you’re Vauxhall? The things we worried about a few years ago – it being in the squeezed middle, neither a premium brand nor a value brand, which are the main places profitable car ma

I wonder which stage industry boffins think we’re in now. Two short years ago, the bosses of McLaren Applied (now an independent engineering firm, Motion Applied) reckoned electric car development wou

Some of motorsport’s most enduring figures can’t resist the urge to keep racing. Matt James finds out why

MY LAST ECOTY WAS JUST under ten years ago. How different it all is today. Out of the dozen cars this year, only one has a manual gearbox and two have hybrid powertrains. Plenty of food for thought he