Matt saunders

The time is 4.40pm on a pleasant weekday afternoon. You’ve had a busy day of it, but your big multi-car comparison test has gone well. All of the cars showed up on time and as planned. They are exactl

Autocar’s history of empirical road testing is the longest in the world. For more than a century, we have been verifying, scrutinising, describing and illustrating new cars in unparalleled detail. Dri

Car launches are strange but wonderful things. A tense battle of wits between PRs and journalists played out in stunning locations. Every detail is meticulously planned, from the road route to the sea

Because of pesky inconveniences like the occasional bankruptcy, mutual loathing and being literally dead, history has not recorded what Ettore Bugatti reckoned to a LaFerrari, if Enzo would’ve rated a

You become detached from reality quite quickly at an event such as the Supercar Driver Secret Meet, which took place at Silverstone on 17 June. Lamborghini Murciélago? Yawn. Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren?

THE FIRST ERAS TEST WAS SPECIAL. PERFECT ROADS, CRISP spring weather and a chance to get under the skin of six ’80s icons, cars my more senior colleagues earned their road-testing stripes in. Being ev