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Top 10 best road trip movies of all time

Published 06 August 2019
By Sunday Times Driving
Looking for inspiration for your road trip holiday plans this year? It may be worth giving these epic road movies a watch this summer.
Supersport Supercars: To Oulton in a Porsche 991. . . sorry, 997 GT3 RS

Supersport Supercars: Oulton in a Porsche GT3 RS

When I’m next quizzed about the Porsche 911 GT3 RS (991 series), I shall answer ...
Published 23 September 2016
Going door-to-door with the 120mph Ginetta Junior teenagers

Racing at 120mph with the Ginetta Junior teens

At an age when many teenagers spend their weekends sleeping in or hanging out on Snapchat, 14-year-old Tom Wood is devoting his ...
Published 16 September 2016
Two big men of TV are revving up to do battle with the return of Top Gear and and new motoring show on Amazon Prime Video. So is rehashing Jeremy Clarkson’s best wheezes really a good tactic for Chris Evans? Nick Rufford investigates for The Sunday Times.

Chris Evans v Jeremy Clarkson in clash of the car shows

It is a wet Wednesday in Surrey and the ageing airfield at Dunsfold is buzzing, just like it used to in the old days when Jeremy Clarkson and the...
Published 23 May 2016
Chad McQueen and Ford Mustang GT: faster than a speeding Bullitt (video)

Chad McQueen and Ford Mustang GT: faster than a speeding...

Remember the scene in Bullitt when Steve McQueen in a Ford Mustang pursues a pair of baddies in a Dodge Charger through the precipitous streets and...
Published 08 May 2016

Exclusive: My Vauxhall Zafira was recalled. . . but...

When Lisa Adams parked her Vauxhall Zafira at the side of the road and walked the short distance to her son’s school to collect him...
Published 25 March 2016
Great Drives: A 1000km family-friendly tour of Sweden

Great Drives: A 1000km family-friendly tour of Sweden...

Sweden is so hot right now. If it’s not the cultural imports – from “Scandi-noir” TV shows to pop music producers – it’s the “Let’s...
Published 22 March 2016
Who is to blame for Dieselgate? Driving tracks down the engineers involved

Who is to blame? Driving tracks down the engineers...

If only everything in life was as reliable as a Volkswagen. That’s what the advertisements used to say. Now VW’s reputation is in tatters...
Published 07 March 2016
2016 Ford Mustang versus BMW M4, comparison test by James Mills of The Sunday Times Driving

The wild pony takes on Munich's machine: 2016 Ford...

It's the car that countless British drivers have lusted after but never been able to buy. Now, after more than 50 years of longing to climb behind...
Published 04 March 2016
Star cars of 2016 Geneva motor show

Star cars of 2016 Geneva motor show

The Geneva salon is one of the smaller motor shows in the calendar, but what it lacks in sheer number of cars it makes up in status
Published 02 March 2016
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Traffic lights going nowhere despite calls for 80%...

We’ve all been there: quickly checking our smartphones; drumming our fingers on the steering wheel; willing on the red light to change to green...
Published 29 January 2016
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Test your knowledge: What car was used for the original...

If there’s something strange in your neighbourhood, who ya gonna call?
Published 20 March 2015
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Dale Vince v Elon Musk: electric car tsars at war over...

In a windswept storage yard at a service station off the M25 lies a forlorn reminder of Britain’s electric superhighway dream...
Published 18 March 2015