Richard porter

Some V8 thunder makes any car exciting, but this selection has it all – drama, luxury, performance, prestige, and great value. Which one needs to fill your garage with joy?

Now that production of the unit has ended, we chart the long and successful history of Jaguar’s V8 by comparing the first and last sports cars to use the engine, a XK8 4.0 and a late F-TYPE 5.0

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I t’s 18 months since we first collected a field of affordable electric cars together along with a similar number of Autocar road testers. The aim was to perform some proper back-to-back testing and d

THE BEST HOT hatches emanate joie de vivre like almost nothing else on four wheels. For many enthusiasts they opened the gates to performance motoring and, like any first love, those sensations of spe

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