‘the key element is what i call the jekyll and hyde effect.the car always has to fascinate’

THIS IS QUATTRO COUNTRY. THE ROAD NEVER RESTS, climbing and weaving its way up to high altitude with the Pyrenees breaking through the haze on the left, and dense pine forest towering above on the rig

JUST HOW FAR HAVE WE COME SINCE THE 1980s? The hatchback I’m driving has 324bhp coursing through its front wheels. Deployed with a modicum of skill and mechanical sympathy, that’s sufficient to launch

Can it really be seven years since the 992 generation of the 911 hit the road? Somehow it can, with events having contrived to shrink the passage of time. When the car was unveiled at the Los Angeles

“ I love driving above 300kph and listening to Firestarter by The Prodigy,” remarks Frank Heyl. Bugatti’s director of design might have told people this before, but it’s unlikely that anyone will ever

THE iconic Audi five-cylinder engine is not long for this world, so to send it off in style the brand is planning a special edition of its RS 3. Spotted testing at the Nürburgring in Germany, the new

am being overtaken by my own wing. As I tilt up onto Boxberg test ground’s banking and the sun curves behind me, the lengthening shadows project the great roll hoop of a spoiler onto the road ahead. S