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First pictures, details and pricing for the 2017 Ford Ka, which costs from £8995

Is the 2017 Ford KA+ young and fashionable or old and...

The original Ford Ka shook up the world of small cars in the mid-Nineties, catching on like a Spice Girls song and staying at the top of the sales...
Published 08 June 2016
First pictures, details and pricing for new 2017 Mercedes-Benz E-class estate

Smoother, smarter, smaller: is 2017 Mercedes E-class...

Once the Mercedes E-class was the king of estate cars, a veritable removal van in disguise that could carry everything that an antiques dealer could...
Published 07 June 2016
First Drive review: 2016 McLaren 570GT

First Drive review: 2016 McLaren 570GT

Most supercars are really only super for the driver. Passengers cheer as the turbo spins to life, or extol the virtues of electronic damping...
Published 06 June 2016
Gone in a puff of smoke: UK spot checks on car emissions axed

Gone in a puff of smoke: UK spot checks on car emissions...

A cloud of grey-brown exhaust as a diesel car accelerates, an old car blowing blue oil smoke — sights like these are all too common on Britain’s...
Published 06 June 2016
Me and My Motor: Sir Chris Hoy on racing at Le Mans and his life in cars

Me and My Motor: Sir Chris Hoy

Sir Chris Hoy is making a comeback on the racetrack this summer — but not on two wheels. Instead, he will press the pedal to the metal in a 200mph...
Published 06 June 2016
Was the 2017 Audi A5 coupé worth a ten year wait?

Is the 2017 Audi A5 coupé worth the 10-year wait?

Modern car models typically last about six years before they are taken off the shelf and replaced with a “new, improved formula”. With the Audi...
Published 06 June 2016
Sunday Times Driving Reader Letters: Boy racers, cures for depression and slowcoach veterans

Reader Letters: Boy racers, cures for depression and...

I had an enlightening conversation with a young man of 18 who has crashed four cars in a year — each one a write-off (“Crash position”, Letters...
Published 06 June 2016
Great Drives in association with Mazda: Lulea to Nordkapp

Great Drives: No sleep till Nordkapp

Ice, wolves, flattened reindeer... and bullet holes in the road signs. This is a driving adventure with a difference. James Mills takes the ice route...
Published 05 June 2016
Arctic Circle Raceway by James Williams

Arctic Circle Raceway: the circuit at the end of the...

There’s a sense of blissful isolation to the E6 highway in northern Norway, as it weaves through verdant forest, revealing lakes...
Published 03 June 2016
First Drive review: 2016 Mercedes-AMG C 63 S Coupé Edition One

First Drive review: 2016 Mercedes-AMG C 63 S Coupé...

Before we get to those unavoidable matter of those yellow stripes, let's explain exactly what we have here. This is the Mercedes-AMG C 63 S Coupé...
Published 03 June 2016
Part two in Weaver's series driving different supercars to his Caterham Supersport races sees get behind the wheel of the 2016 McLaren 650S.

Supersport Supercars: Impractical, temperamental...

Part two of my hair-shirted supercar odyssey took me to the charming island of Anglesey. It’s home to restaurants that shut at 8pm...
Published 03 June 2016
Products: Halfords 2.4W Solar Battery Maintainer review

Products: Halfords 2.4W Solar Battery Maintainer review

Owners of old cars will at some point have sat in their pride and joy, and turned the key, only to hear the dreaded clunk of a reluctant starter motor...
Published 02 June 2016