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Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel

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#456
Yesterday · 7 min
Man Maths: Maserati Coupé GT
Old Maseratis have forever been the wasteland of broken dreams, where those armed with dubiously calculated sums fall, impaled gloriously upon their chequebooks. This one though, argues Gez Medinger, might just be different
#455
Friday · 23 min
Convoy! Revisited
It was 50 years ago to the day that Mel Nichols drove three Lamborghinis home across Europe, a story whose impact included inspiring Jeremy Clarkson’s career. Nichols retells the epic journey, half a century on
#454
Thursday · 10 min
The reverse Tardis
The Jaguar Type 01 is absolutely enormous, but only on the outside. Inside, it seems to be tiny. But does that even matter any more, asks David Twohig
#453
Wednesday · 11 min
The Outsider
In Europe at least the latest Corvette has never received the admiration and affection its talents deserve. After a day on the road in one, Andrew Frankel says that’s a damn shame
#452
Tuesday · 9 min
Evans above
The 2026 WRC season has just concluded in the most dramatic of fashions. Henry Catchpole describes how Britain’s first champion in a quarter of a century conquered the rallying world
#451
Monday · 11 min
The return of the tin snail?
Or is it? Citroen’s new 2CV concept is charming and brimming with great ideas. But, asks Andrew English, how much will make it into production?
#450
October 10 · 4 min
Man Maths: MVS Venturi
A 30-year-old French supercar no-one’s heard of? How could you possibly refuse, asks Andrew Frankel
#449
October 9 · 14 min
Our Cars: DMC DeLorean
It might have had a mechanical overhaul and a new engine, but something was rotten at his DeLorean’s core, and it couldn’t be ignored. Gez Medinger undertakes his biggest job yet
#448
October 8 · 10 min
The impossible dream
Namely, trying to keep up with a Ferrari test driver on a test track. Always up for an heroically futile escapade, Andrew Frankel tries his luck
#447
October 7 · 23 min
Leap of faith
If the famous leaper is to spring once more, this is the car that has to do it. Richard Bremner on Jaguar’s most important car since the XK120
#446
October 6 · 17 min
Excess all areas?
Norton’s new hyperbike is fast, beautiful and vastly desirable. But what, wonders Andrew English, can you actually do with it?
#445
October 5 · 7 min
When cultures collide…
…wonderful things can happen, as Joana Fidalgo reports from the Japanese drifting scene in, er, Ireland
#444
October 3 · 7 min
Man Maths: BMW Z4 M Coupé
Underrated, undervalued, and overlooked. Why the younger sibling of the famed E46 M3 is one of the great modern-classic bargains. By Gez Medinger
#443
October 2 · 25 min
I was wrong about the Prius
Think the original Prius and 2026 Formula 1 have nothing in common? Ben Hedley of Hedley Studios, formerly the Little Car Company, invites you to think again
#442
October 1 · 11 min
The Real Pioneers: Hot hatchbacks
Popular conception holds the VW Golf to be the original fast hatchback. In fact, says Gavin Green, it was fully half a decade late to that particular party
#441
September 30 · 25 min
The great switcheroo
So devoted are we to the British lightweight sports car that Andrew Frankel and Gez Medinger each keep one of their own in the shed. What happens when they exchange keys?
#440
September 29 · 15 min
Geek out! The world’s longest production lines
Production lines don’t always exist merely within factories. Sometimes they stretch across cities, countries or even oceans. Richard Porter reports
#439
September 28 · 12 min
One more yard
A young man in a slow car going too fast in the wrong conditions. A disaster waiting to happen. Andrew Frankel was at the wheel when it did
#438
September 26 · 6 min
Woman Maths: Audi R8 GT
Helen Wakerley gets to the heart of the first-generation Audi R8 GT, and why those who know the R8 best consider it the greatest of them all
#437
September 25 · 10 min
Mission creep
The Volkswagen XL1 has a successor, and all it needs to get built is for enough people to say that it should. Richard Aucock weighs the evidence

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