Ferrari couldn’t resist. It’s watched the likes of the Aston Martin DBS, Lamborghini Aventador and Bentley Continental GT running away with the ‘ultra-quick, mega-pricey suntanmobile’ market and decided enough is enough. The 812 Superfast has lost it

Over the centuries, all creative industries have seen a battle between the artists and the financiers. And so it is with North Korean budget superminis. Back at Rong Un Motors’s Pyongyang HQ sit the money men, pinching every won*, especially when it

This is the Mercedes-Benz EQS. Essentially, the fully electric S-Class of the future. Don’t believe us? Mercedes calls it “a trailblazer for the entire Mercedes-Benz EQ family,” meaning it does for Merc’s electric range what the S-Class has tradition

Le Mans 2021 just got even more interesting. We’ve already heard Aston and Toyota say they’ll compete in the WEC’s new top-tier ‘hypercar’ class, and now Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus has thrown its hat in the ring too. SCG says it’ll field a pair o

1 It’s often said your cars are too similar to one another. Rivals make both front- and mid-engined cars. Before you ask, McLaren will not make an SUV. But I get really pissed off the people say we’re making the same car again and again. Look at the

I grew up in a household surrounded by cars and motorsport. Both of my grandparents raced in the Seventies, and my dad started rallying around then too. Family businesses are a big thing in India and I suppose this was ours. My grandfather actually h

To get your hands on one of Aston’s tremendous DB4 GT Zagato continuations, you had to sign up to buy something called the ‘DBZ Centenary Collection’ – a two-car multipack featuring said DB4, plus a mystery Zagato-bodied DBS. The two cars were only o

Don’t run before you can walk. Do the easy thing first, then tackle the harder task when you’re good and ready. It’s what we do, and most new gadgetry follows the same path, beginning with the basics and moving onwards only when the hardware and soft

FOR It’s a lovely object to look at and be in AGAINST All that weight and heavy nose taint the dynamics Let’s start with the name: Velar SVAutobiography Dynamic, or SVAD for short. This tells us a lot about the car’s positioning which I’ll now at

FOR Uniqueness and space. Solid and modern drivetrain AGAINST Won’t scratch your driving itch. Price First you had to know that in 2016 Citroen left South Africa. According to surveys not many did which is fortunate if you’ve got new product waiti

FOR Slightly calmer McLaren is amazingly good for long trips, yet loses little in recreational blasts AGAINST You can take a lot of stuff with you, but packing isn’t easy I’m suspicious of the idea of a GT, at least as they mostly are these days.

Like Saharan sand being deposited across the Alps, dust clouds raised here drifted over the circuit. The WRC version of smoke signals Hard to see how much drop there is through Galp, which can encourage cars to oversteer on entry. At almost 160kph.

MY HAIR IS A SOURCE OF MUCH JEALOUSY AT TG TOWERS. Chiefly because I have some, while many of my colleagues do not. I am therefore much better at testing roadsters. Sure, I may not be able to get a McLaren 720S Spider as heroically sideways as Olli

Theidea of unlimited motorsport has been an avenue of fascination denied us since the death of the Can-Am series in the mid-Seventies. But as a way of marketing a new technology, especially one perceived to lack both speed and excitement, Volkswage

High above Portimão’s main straight, a handful of glow worms try their best to cast light over proceedings. The plan had been for the racers to run deep into the night, to have the full Le Mans experience. But the VW ID.R has even less illumination t

The six hours from 5am on 15 August 2019. I’d like to tell you about them, although my reasoning is hardly honourable. You see, I chiefly want to tell myself about them, so when I get older and more decrepit I can pick up my copy of the magazine you

Hot hatchbacks normally arrive at Speed Week as the underdogs. The worthy ones with the big boots where we keep the melted chocolate bars. This year, the shopping trolleys are out for blood. A juiced-up fast Ford, a Mercedes A-Class that’s more power

Ferrari 1965, Ford 1966, Porsche 1982, Audi 2010. None of them did it as well as us. The formation finish. Yes, the Renault’s lagging slightly, but give us a break, we were dead on our feet. And, if we’re honest, slightly surprised with our top three

It’s all very well deciding to do the TG24 in a far corner of Europe, but making it a reality was a titanic effort. Cars had to be taken there from all over Europe, with half the grid sent out on transporters from the UK (big shout out to emrogerstra

PRICE R1 441 226 DRIVER Andrew Leopold There it is again, that jaundiced ‘lifestyle’ remark I loathe with similar passion to Sam Phillip’s ire over the word petrolhead (P31). Never understood the merit of the world lifestyle, except as a cop-out

PRICE R819 400 DRIVER Avon Middleton If the words ‘new’ and ‘bakkie’ or ‘truck’ were in your list of Google Alerts, I’d imagine that your mailbox would have been chockers over the past two years or so. This bakkie market has been rife with compet

PRICE R3 395 000 DRIVER Ollie Marriage I’D GONE IN THINKING BLUE. THREE HOURS LATER I’M STILL UNDECIDED: should it be Verdant or Light Grey Satin? I’m quite proud of myself for having whittled it down to two shades from the 150 painted sculptural

PRICE R1 036 699 DRIVER Stephen Dobie This feels like a pretty route-one comparison. It’s unavoidable, though. For over 20 years, Porsche has made the best roadster on sale, and it’d be obtuse of me to miss the chance to compare our BMW to one. Y