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There’s a black GMA T.50S Niki Lauda just to my right. It’s tucked inside a shuttered pit box, raised on air jacks, centrelock wheels and slicks set off to the side. It looks shockingly tiny but has a presence big enough to create its own gravity. Outside, the sun is just peeping out above the…

26 minutes 58 seconds What happens when you take the most staggering performance car in the world, give it a new turbo for more power, uprate the suspension and stiffen the chassis, finesse the aero and go over the interior for good measure? You get this, the Kimera EVO38. Now replete with four-wheel drive and…

There’s plenty of hypotheticals that sports fans love to debate at length. And, in 2005, Formula One enthusiasts were offered the tantalising prospect of witnessing such pub debates played out for real, with the launch of a new race series. Grand Prix Masters would see retired legends of the sport going head to head in…

“We’ll take the long way home.” Hands up who’s ever had that thought, and then, at the prospect of actually planning the damn thing, immediately given up and thumbed it straight into the satnav? And sure, while most nav systems allow you to set them to avoid motorways, anyone who’s ever done that will know…

Meet the Hyundai Boulder. It’s a rugged off-road concept that’s giving all kinds of Land Rover Defender vibes – and looks fit to take on the Dakar Rally. We’re told it previews Hyundai’s first body-on-frame architecture, a new platform that the carmaker has confirmed will underpin a mid-size pickup that’s due in the US by…

 1. The yoke ain’t no joke Remember those bizarre-looking steering ‘wheels’ from Tesla Model S, X and Cybertruck, and how they were almost universally disliked? Well, not content with 40-inch screens across the dash in the new GLC, Mercedes is ignoring all that and ploughing headlong into the future… by soon offering a steering yoke…

Ready to brighten up your day? Have a little watch of the video down below. That’s the Ford GT Mk IV setting the third fastest time ever at the Nürburgring in the hands of two-time N24 winner Frédéric Vervisch. Looks like it’s on fast forward, doesn’t it? The Mk IV’s 6m 15.977s lap means it’s…

What is it? A tribute to New Zealand’s only F1 world champion, Denis ‘Denny’ Hulme, who passed away before the open wheel, General Motors V8-powered two-seater was unveiled. In hindsight, this was probably for the best. Did they build any? At least one. A papaya demo car ran at the 2010 Goodwood Festival of Speed and…

Kia has announced that its smallest – and in its own words, ‘affordable’ – EV2 will cost from £24,245, ahead of its arrival later this year. That includes a £3,750 ‘Reservation Saving’, while the carmaker awaits confirmation that it’ll be eligible for the UK Government’s Electric Car Grant. Course, we’ve already driven it, concluding it…

What’s this all about? In May 2001, in a quiet corner of Toyota Motor Co’s engineering department, the project head of a proposed sports car, Haruhiko Tanahashi, wrote the internal briefing document to explain his car’s aims to the top management. So it had to be persuasive. On the cover was a Toyota F1 car…