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It’s 25 years since Britain first clapped eyes on Ford’s Focus RS. We look back at a great Noughties hot hatch

Time for some corners – famously a source of concern with the RS

It’s probably unwise for a lowly road tester to even attempt a Churchillian tone. Thankfully, I’m only paraphrasing. Have we reached the end for the conventional, established, petrol-swilling hot hatc

John Simister gets under the skin of six classics that are now officially ‘historic’

Whoever decided that drivers should have either practicality or performance clearly lacked vision. For much of its existence the estate car or stationwagon was just a practical workhorse. Aside from o

Alfasud designer Giorgetto Giugiaro was given carte blanche by Volkswagen to design the Golf, the Italian chosen because he’d studied manufacturing methods. The car entered production with minimal cha