New cars are boring? bullsh*t

As two-door coupes built at a time when Ford owned both companies, the Jaguar XK8 and Aston Martin DB7 Vantage have much in common. But with one being a high volume model powered by a V8 and the other produced in tiny numbers with a V12, these were very different models. So which of these sports cars do we prefer?

Over the last couple of years, it seemed you could hardly pick up a car magazine without seeing some reference to the Aston Martin Bulldog. It looked like what it was – an outlandish, impossibly wild

MINI AT 65

This year’s Hot 30 arrives as the entire automotive world takes stock of the internal combustion era. Are we seeing the shape of things to come?

JAPAN. NO OTHER NATION EXPRESSES ITS PASSION for engineering through such esoteric cars or pursues its individual ideas of perfection with such fanatical dedication. With the values of Japanese modern

I t’s all bad news these days, isn’t it? Or it certainly feels like it if you dare to pay attention to global politics. Step away from the doom-mongering, though – Steve Cropley’s feature on p68 will