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The five best driving video games

The five best driving video games

F1 has replaced its postponed races with virtual ones, using the official F1 game as a platform. But what are the best driving games of all time?
Published 24 March 2020
Top five wedge shaped cars - Aston Martin Lagonda

Top five wedge-shaped cars

Although an iconic style, wedge shaped cars often came with a slice of unpredictability.
Published 10 March 2020

Top four car adverts from the 2020 Super Bowl

Much like the teams that battle it out on pitch at the Big Game, car makers have no problem with going the distance with their Super Bowl ads.
Published 03 February 2020
Clarkson's funniest comments of 2019

Jeremy Clarkson's funniest comments of 2019

Jeremy Clarkson's televisual activities don't seem to have blunted his written word a jot, thankfully, as this collection of quotes proves.
Published 26 December 2019
2018 Smart fortwo headlight close up

Revealed: the most beautiful new car on sale

Carwow claims to have used the scientific method to determine the best-looking car from the 626 models that it says have gone on sale in the UK.
Published 08 November 2019
Video: Garage taken over by ghosts, ghouls and skeletons in spooky Halloween projection

Video: Garage taken over by ghosts and ghouls

It's never too late to form a band — even death can't stop some determined entities, if the goings-on in a garage in Dearborn are to be believed.
Published 31 October 2019

Clarkson spotted buying sheep at auction

Instead of snapping up a car of some description, Jeremy Clarkson returned home with something that, technically, doesn't produce any horsepower
Published 10 August 2019

Teen driver avoids crash with out-of-control lorry

A teen driver avoided a potentially very nasty accident, by successfully swerving away from an out-of-control lorry on the A34 dual carriageway.
Published 02 August 2019
FaceApp reveals how F1 drivers who died before their time might have looked in old age - Gilles Villeneuve

Deceased F1 drivers given FaceApp old filter

What if — or rather, if only — F1 drivers killed in accidents had survived to old age? A new app gives us a glimpse of what might have been.
Published 19 July 2019
Skoda has made a taxi app that lets parents 'charge' their kids for car journeys

Charge kids for rides with Skoda "Parent Taxi" app

Skoda has embraced the idea that parents are taxi drivers to their kids, by making an app that lets mums and dads "charge" for car journeys.
Published 16 July 2019

VW driver tries to inflate tyres with car charger

Newly-released CCTV footage suggests some motorists across the UK are still unaware of what an electric car charging point is.
Published 24 June 2019
Police arrest under-the-influence driver of electric toy car

Video: Police arrest drunk driver ... of toy

Traffic police in America arrested an intoxicated motorist behind the wheel of an unusual vehicle: an electric ride-on toy truck.
Published 18 June 2019