Judge’s notes:james taylor

To suggest there was an inevitability to Porsche’s 911 S/T scoring full marks in its Autocar road test is to underplay how hard and rare it is for any car to be awarded all five stars. But sometimes y

There are few better ways to test a car’s sense of theatre than by throwing it straight into the Mille Miglia – and we’re part of it. Not in a priceless museum piece, but in the wildest, most extrover

A man wipes the soles of my shoes with a cloth. This isn’t the sort of service you usually get when climbing into a car. But then the Porsche 963 RSP isn’t your usual sort of car. It’s the sort of car

Until very recently, the idea of Lamborghini’s top-billing V12 being a ‘dream car’ would have raised eyebrows among the supercar-weary cynics. They would have a point, too. The old Aventador was dashi

It was at once an unsatisfying and actually a very satisfying verdict for a group test. When I put the revised Volkswagen Golf against a pair of rivals in the Toyota Corolla and Peugeot 308 last Augus

With a Pininfarinadesigned body, a naturally aspirated V8 mounted directly behind your back and a truly exhilarating driving experience, the Ferrari 458 Italia remains the definitive supercar of the e