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May 2025 marks a slightly unorthodox anniversary: that of a 20-year-old Jenson Button being caught speeding on his way to Monaco, clocking more than 140mph on a French motorway in a BMW 330d. ‘Prodigy

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Let’s ignore for a moment all the clichés about Italian reliability. If you’ve got M2 CS money, you can probably afford to run a Maserati with a highly strung Ferrari V8. Thanks to a crossplane crank,

The V8 came of age in the USA, but historically America has by no means been its only home, nor the source of some of its greatest exponents. British car makers also saw the layout’s appeal, and while

BMW M135 £43,740 OTR/£54,050 as tested/£602 pcm WHY IT’S HERE: It’s about time BMW had a hot hatch worthy of the M badge again DRIVER: jethro bovingdon THE M135 LEFT ME QUITE unexpectedly. It was plan

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