Every month CAR interviews the stars of motorsport, demystifies the latest in-car technology and shares our writers’ passion for car culture and car design. Discover the world’s newest and most exciting cars: join us to drive everything from supercars and hot hatches to family cars.
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EVIL TWINS • Plug-in hybrids? Nah. New Audi RS6 and RS7 get even mightier twin-turbo V8s.
Merc sticks with trad engines... R-Class reborn... four-door coupe C-Class...
New M4: 2020’s junior M8 • All the coupe style and a big chunk of the performance, but in a more manageable and affordable package.
Markus Flasch M division boss
Dark times ahead for Aston Martin? • Andy Palmer’s vision of a sunlit future is still a winner – but getting there is looking trickier. Ben Oliver explains
Formula 1, Le Mans, Daytona… Dakar? • Ex-F1 champion eyes Dakar as his new challenge, with Toyota pulling out all the stops to help.
Next-gen Juke: five big changes • Sunderland’s smash-hit crossover has been reborn to conquer all foes.
‘I learnt business from Ghosn’ • Unlike his old boss Carlos Ghosn, PSA chief Carlos Tavares is the industry’s current star player
Six questions only we would ask
Roc out with your mohawk out • VW finds another niche to fill
German EV pioneers face off • VW and Porsche’s crucial new electric cars finally arrive.
The CAR effect • Wildly expensive watches inspired by CAR interviews? Surely not…
1937 - 2019 Ferdinand Piëch RIP: the cars were everything • A demanding boss. A tricky personality. But the man who made VW what it is today truly understood cars.
THREE HIGHLIGHTS OF PIËCH’S UNRIVALLED CV
How do you hybridise a Lambo V12? • With supercapacitors, of course. Sant’Agata’s first step into electrification is the limited-run Sian supercar.
Augmented reality in your new Mercedes • Satellite navigation works fine already, but Mercedes thinks its new tech takes it to the next, futuristic, level.
Does it work?
VIRTUAL GUIDANCE HOW IT WORKS
Respect is due • Ferrari is honouring its own V8 turbo engine with the F8 Tributo. Immodest perhaps, but a lap of the old Mugello road circuit suggests there’s much to celebrate
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Holding pattern • Facelift brings many benefits, but we’ll have to wait for the major overhaul it really needs
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THE FIRST HOUR
THE FIRST HOUR
Bewitched • Vanity project or timeless classic? Porsche’s modern Moby Dick – yours for £750,000 – splits opinion. And then you drive it…
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Pumping irony • Feel free to be surprised at the arrival of a great new diesel from EV evangelists Volvo
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THE FIRST HOUR
THE FIRST HOUR
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Fun, fun, fun… • …until your battery runs flat and the tide comes in. Or it rains. We sample the mixed pleasures of VW’s ID Buggy concept
Thinking inside the box • Smallest Skoda crossover goes big on space, not so big on originality
THE FIRST HOUR
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THE FIRST HOUR
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A 911 that’s more 9 than 11 • Cheapest 911: not cheap, not quite brilliant
Ridiculously good • Costly overkill, but also great quality and a blast to drive
THE FIRST HOUR
It’s what we want
Opinion • IMPERFECT PORSCHES + TRIUMPH HERALD + VW UPS AND DOWNS
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