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Me and My Motor: Cerys Matthews of Catatonia on family cars and beaten-up trucks

Me and My Motor: Cerys Matthews of Catatonia

Before Catatonia became one of the top-selling groups of the 1990s, Cerys Matthews and her bandmates spent many long nights driving home...
Published 21 June 2016
"Shocking" Le Mans 24 Hours sees heartbreak for Toyota, delight for Ford

Heartbreak for Toyota in last-minute Le Mans defeat

The most dramatic sport story of the weekend didn’t happen on a football pitch or a tennis court; nor did it involve Lewis Hamilton and a cranky...
Published 20 June 2016

Land Rover sues Chinese car maker over Range Rover...

The Chinese maker of the Landwind X7 has reportedly been served with "newly filed actions surrounding copyright and unfair competition" over the alleged...
Published 17 June 2016
Clarkson and May give a lift to David Cameron and the “Remain” EU campaign

Clarkson and May give lift to David Cameron and 'remain'...

Jeremy Clarkson and James May have become dab hands at entertaining VIP visitors to their production offices, so when David Cameron dropped in to...
Published 17 June 2016
Rolls-Royce gets radical with luxury car of the future

Rolls-Royce gets radical with luxury car of the future

When we imagine a Roll-Royce, images spring to mind of deep-pile carpets, lashings of leather, acres of wood trim, a couple of Dartington crystal...
Published 17 June 2016
Me and My Motor: Emily Collett, British aerobatics champion, on the planes that made her

Me and My Motor: Emily Collett, British aerobatics...

At the age of nine, Emily Collett looked in awe at an F18 jet fighter and announced firmly: “When I grow up, I’m going to be an engineer and fly...
Published 13 June 2016
New 2017 Renault Clio pricing, details and pictures

Modest makeover for France's popular Renault Clio supermini

Coming from one of the most opinionated nations on earth, the facelift of the Renault Clio, one of France’s most enduring cars, seems as subtle...
Published 13 June 2016
Me and My Motor: actor Patrick Dempsey on starring in Le Mans, for real

Me and My Motor: Patrick Dempsey

Like Steve McQueen and Paul Newman before him, Patrick Dempsey has combined a successful Hollywood career with a decent turn as a racing driver...
Published 13 June 2016
Driver on phone

Motorists demand £200 fine and more penalty points...

Motorists feel the imminent stiffening in the penalty for using a phone at the wheel will not prove any more of a deterrent. In a survey of 2,100...
Published 13 June 2016
Me and My Motor: Le Mans winner Allan McNish on motoring loves. . . and losses

Me and My Motor: Le Mans winner Allan McNish

Allan McNish, three-time winner of the Le Mans 24 Hours race, hails from an unlikely motoring mecca. His birth town of Dumfries and nearby Kirkcudbright...
Published 10 June 2016
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