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Will the new Top Gear work?
I may be pushing the boundaries of my brief here, but if I promise not to mention it again can I discuss the future of what I am told was…
Andrew Frankel
Senior Contributing Writer
After an inglorious stint in the City convinced him that he could handle cars better than he handled money, Andrew joined Autocar many years ago as a junior tester. Since then he has become one of the industry’s senior figures. Editor of Motor Sport for five years, he now runs our road test section.
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Le Mans News
Toyota vs Nissan at Le Mans
Who do you think was more satisfied with their Le Mans weekend, Toyota or Nissan? On first glance, this is a question not requiring a serious answer. Sure, Toyota was…
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Driving Ferrari's 488 GTB
The new Ferrari 488 GTB never seems more absurdly fast than when you consider where it came from. Trace the line of mid-engined, two-seater Ferraris that preceded it and it…
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80 years of the driving test
Eighty years ago this week the driving test was introduced, advising drivers on issues as broad as how to make clear hand signals and why it was poor form to…
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Porsche raises the bar
Remember when 911s were tricky to drive? Of course Porsche’s rear engine masterpiece came with a reputation for being difficult almost from new, sufficiently so for Porsche to feel the…
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Cars on British roads
As moments go it was one of the more surreal of recent times. It was 1.00am and I was sitting in a fold-up chair in a pit garage, clad in…
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Politicians who love cars
I only know one politician and we were chums long before he felt the call of his party. He is, at least as I write in this election week, the…
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Return of the manual 'box
For years people like me have been moaning about the decline of manual gearboxes in the cars we like to drive, or at least would like to drive if we…
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Should Mercedes build a GT4 race car?
I am almost always delighted with any comment left after columns like this, because whether you agree with me or not, you’ve taken time to read what I have written…
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F1
WEC vs F1
What did you think of the race on Sunday? If you found it anything other than utterly spellbinding from flag to flag, it is possible you and I were tuned…
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Turbocharged Ferraris
I have often wondered what that great engineer WO Bentley would have made of the turbocharger. His view of the supercharger is well known, as he once famously fumed that…
F1
Nuvolari's Nürburgring
Sebastian Vettel’s victory this weekend was not the first time Ferrari has unexpectedly beaten a dominant Mercedes-Benz racing team, but it was the first I can recall in which Ferrari…
