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You’re looking at “a new era” in Bristol Cars’ history. The long-defunct and self-proclaimed ‘enigmatic’ British carmaker has returned… with an old car. Well, a new-old car. For it has discovered five unused Fighter chassis’, and it intends to rebuild all five of them. This is the first one, and like the Fighters Bristol made…

“I don’t have any cars anymore,” said Lewis Hamilton back in 2025. “I got rid of all my cars. I’m more into art nowadays. If I was going to get a car, it would be the F40. But that’s a nice piece of art.” Strong agree, Lewis. Now we learn the seven-time Formula One world…

A vast amount of tech has been thrown at the electric Range Rover, with the simple aim of making it just a Range Rover. Or more accurately of making it the Range Rover that we all think existed before, but never really did. A Range Rover, we think, has a fabulously refined powertrain. In reality…

Not the original hot hatch, but the car that reframed the template. The GTI maxed out Gérard Welter’s crisp 3dr design by the simple expedient of adding side mouldings and red go-faster inserts, while a 900kg kerbweight ensured that even 1984’s 105bhp 1.6-litre suffered little inertia. Then came the 115bhp version, and the 130bhp 1.9…

Frank Stephenson is a car designer with more hits than the Beatles, including the Escort RS Cossie, first BMW Mini, Maser MC12, numerous Ferraris and the McLaren P1. These days he runs his own consultancy – Frank Stephenson Design. Here he shares his views on the 5 Turbo 3E This is how you bring an…

There are many excellent retro car designs out there, but we cannot, in good conscience, let the stinkers go unpunished, starting with this hideous blob of chrome-plastered horror. It was supposed to look like the elegant original Thunderbird from the ’50s, and did… if the original had suffered a bad reaction to a bee sting…

Ferrari. Everywhere. Literally everywhere. From the media platforms; from mainstream newsfeeds to tabloid and broadsheet papers and even playful jibes from other global brands such as Toblerone and KitKat. And less playful ones from former CEOs. Maybe Ferrari took advice from Lewis Hamilton’s girlfriend when devising and launching the Luce, because its new EV truly…

The Toyota GR Yaris Aero Performance and VW Golf GTI Edition 50: two cars that feel like they’ve snuck past the fun police. Ever-tightening emissions regs and the narcotic fug of electrification means that anything aimed almost entirely at high revving hedonism is now a rarity. No hybrid gubbins here, just pure internal combustion. One…

One of the biggest surprises of 2026’s Monterey Car Week, the McLaren McL 6GT has a deeply uncool name, but everything else about it is quite the opposite. Harking back to the M6GT, Bruce McLaren’s original, never fully realised vision for a McLaren road car, it brings not only ’70s Can Am throwback looks to…

If we learned nothing else about shooting zombies in the dark over the last 25 years, we learned this much: fidelity is the enemy of atmosphere. However crisp and clear modern Resident Evil has become, however bouncy Leon’s hair might be as it swishes to and fro while he runs from the recently un-unalived in the remakes,…