Super cabrios

The sky is overcast, and being somewhere on a single track road near the bottom of the Lake District’s Hardknott Pass at 11pm, that dark is reliably inky, unbothered by even the barest lumen of ambien

The world is governed by algorithms. But is it possible to determine driving pleasure empirically? Ferrari, not always the epicentre of rational thought, says that it is. The 296 Speciale – priced fro

£254,200 OTR/£282,000 as tested/£5,077 pcm WHY IT’S HERE: What has a hybrid makeover – and Mulliner buffing – added to the world’s best grand tourer? DRIVER: Ollie Kew IT’S 5AM, AND YOU JOIN ME AT hom

RATINGS = Thrill-free zone = Tepid = Interesting = Seriously good = A truly great car = new entry this month. Cars in italics are no longer on sale. Issue no. is for our most recent major test of the

T HE CAR PARK AT OUR HOTEL HAS TAKEN ON THE role of a truck stop. It’s early Monday morning and what would ordinarily be a sleepy nook behind a retail park in southeastern France has become a temporar

Our first contender to fall by the wayside is the Audi. Yousuf was impressed with how the RS3 performed against such a standout field and was surprised at just how good it felt regardless of which big