Subscribe to The Times
Home > Archives

Archives

The Sunday Times Driving Placeholder

News: Ford to announce new 600bhp EcoBoost sports car?

Ford about to launch a follow-up to its GT sports car, powered by an EcoBoost turbocharged V6 engine, if reports are to be believed. The rumours –...
Published 16 December 2014
The Sunday Times Driving Placeholder

Letters of the week, December 14

This week: The Queen Elizabeth II Bridge, Scotland's drink-driving limit and the regulation of cyclists...
Published 15 December 2014
The Sunday Times Driving Placeholder

Can you recommend an automatic, five seater people-carrier...

Q. Can you help a growing family find a people-carrier that can comfortably seat five and has two Isofix points across the back seats? We’d like...
Published 15 December 2014
The Sunday Times Driving Placeholder

Yours for £2.5m: The world's most expensive cars

What is an oligarch to do when a Mercedes is too mundane and a Porsche too predictable? A new generation of status-obsessed billionaires is driving...
Published 15 December 2014
The Sunday Times Driving Placeholder

First Drive review: Volkswagen Polo GTI (2014)

The new souped-up Polo may seem to be wearing its older sibling's clothes, but it emerges from the shadow of the Golf with a character all its own...
Published 15 December 2014
The Sunday Times Driving Placeholder

Video: Meet the world's biggest DeLorean fan

John DeLorean may have made plenty of enemies during his colourful lifetime, including the British, American and Swiss governments and the international...
Published 15 December 2014
The Sunday Times Driving Placeholder

LCCS 2015: James May's most important cars in history

It’s a debate that has kept publicans in business for years: what are the best cars ever made? These are James May's picks at the London Classic...
Published 15 December 2014
The Sunday Times Driving Placeholder

News: 2015 Audi Q7 details: shorter, lighter, more...

Has Audi created the ultimate family car? When its new Q7 goes on sale in the spring, the luxurious seven-seat SUV will offer 10in tablets that not...
Published 15 December 2014
The Sunday Times Driving Placeholder

The Clarkson review: 2015 Aston Martin Vanquish

I have a friend called Brian who mistakenly believes that his entire wardrobe must be an ocean of high quality, excellent design and refined good...
Published 15 December 2014
The Sunday Times Driving Placeholder

LCCS 2015: How to cut a classic car's running costs...

Loaning classics out to film productions is just one of many ways to help cover running costs. Matt Jones puts us in the picture...
Published 15 December 2014
The Sunday Times Driving Placeholder

LCCS 2015: The magical machines set for London Classic...

Occasionally, visionary designers and the helping hand of history combine to make magical machines, from the utilitarian Land Rover to the mouth-watering...
Published 15 December 2014
The Sunday Times Driving Placeholder

LCCS 2015: My Lotus Esprit S3 restoration hell

It had a beautiful body and could corner like a fairground attraction but soon Andrew Frankel began to hate his shoddily built 1981 Lotus Esprit S3...
Published 15 December 2014