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Me and My Motor: Claire Williams, Formula One boss

Me and My Motor: Claire Williams, Formula One boss

Claire Williams is one of the most powerful women in motor sport, heading the Williams Formula One team with her father, Sir Frank...
Published 21 March 2017
Intel makes $15bn move to clear way for driverless cars

Intel spends $15bn on 'eyes' for driverless cars

Intel is to buy an Israeli maker of self-driving car technology for $15.3bn (£12.6bn), a record deal for the emerging autonomous vehicle indust
Published 21 March 2017
First Drive review: 2017 Land Rover Discovery

First Drive review: 2017 Land Rover Discovery

Think of a Land Rover and you’ll probably conjure up an image of a farmer taking bales to the top field or a coastguard pulling a boat across...
Published 20 March 2017
Reader Letters: Cabin smells, brake fluid changes, peanut power, clean diesel and Italian points

Reader Letters: Cabin smells and peanut power

Years ago I used to get a lift from a man with a Rolls-Royce of the same period as James May’s. It too had an unusual scent inside...
Published 20 March 2017
Richard Hammond "knocked out" in Mozambique motorcycle crash

Richard Hammond knocked out in Mozambique crash

The TV presenter Richard Hammond was knocked unconscious in a motorcycle accident while filming the second series of The Grand Tour.
Published 20 March 2017
Car seatbelt for your dog? It’s a bone of contention in America

Sit, Fido! Sit! Now belt up!

Dogs travelling in cars in the US state of Maine could be forced to belt up under a proposed law
Published 20 March 2017

Drivers in Japan face dementia tests to cut deaths

Japan has introduced traffic rules to stop people with dementia driving, after a series of deaths caused by confused elderly motorists.
Published 20 March 2017
Obituary: John Surtees

Obituary: John Surtees

The 1960s were the golden age of British motor racing, and the final grand prix of the 1964 Formula One season in Mexico City was a three-way sho
Published 20 March 2017
Ministers slam brakes on costly speed awareness courses

Ministers slam brakes on anti‑speeding courses

Ministers will launch a crackdown on speed awareness classes after concerns that they do not change drivers’ habits and are a way for police forc
Published 20 March 2017
The Clarkson Review: 2017 Renault Scénic

The Clarkson Review: 2017 Renault Scénic

In the olden days, cars were made from steel, and that’s only right and proper. Steel is as manly as Tarzan’s scrotum...
Published 17 March 2017
Manchester slams the brakes on new 20mph zones

Manchester slams the brakes on new 20mph zones

Councils were urged to suspend the national introduction of 20mph zones yesterday after research in one of Britain’s biggest cities found...
Published 17 March 2017
Car Clinic: My Nissan X-Trail will not shift into seventh gear

Car Clinic: My X-Trail won't shift into seventh

My 2015 Nissan X-Trail will not shift into seventh gear in automatic mode, which I think is reducing the fuel economy. Why?
Published 16 March 2017