Less power, more pace

On days when good karma comes, life is all right. The sun is shining, I’m behind the wheel of a new Aston Martin Vantage Roadster and it’s wearing a registration number that stops traffic, literally.

Aston Martin has revealed a new S-badged range-topper for the DB12, with power boosted to 690bhp and a series of technical upgrades to make it more of a hardcore proposition. The DB12 S joins the Vant

Or perhaps not. Anyway, for the full ‘F1 team principal on the pitwall’ vibe, the Valkyrie comes equipped with a set of purposeful motorsport cans, complete with mouthpiece and trailing cables. For th

‘THE FIRST FAT, HEAVY DROPS FALL LAZILY FROM the sky and drum on the roof of the Porsche like dried peas on a biscuit tin; clearly, there’s no sound deadening behind the roof lining.’ Not my words but

Call that old? How can such a thing be classified as a historic racing car? Its period competition era was only five minutes ago, surely. Actually, the sleek Audi R8 LMS Ultra you see here dates back

THE name ‘707’ certainly has a nice ring to it, so it seemed a fitting choice for the range-topping version of the Aston Martin DBX. When that number is a direct reference to a car’s metric horsepower