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My morning at Colin Furze’s perfectly normal semi-detached three-bed starts… normally. He brews me a sturdy cuppa, bemoans the price of steel pinching his home improvement budget, and shows me into his workshop. To the floor hatch. Onto the ladder, descending below the gardens of suburban Lincolnshire. Along the (perfectly dry, neatly carpeted) tunnel, to…

Classy E24 635CSi-based coupe action, the B7 Turbo had 326bhp and managed 0–62mph in 6.1secs. Though you want an ’84 – ’86 one, because the introduction of compulsory catalytic converters in late ’86 dropped the power by 10bhp. Faster than a Ferrari Testarossa was the legend – but carried more people. It’s an E34 535i…

At a certain point during the 2010s, Ubisoft realised why people actually liked the Assassin’s Creed games. It was much simpler than the multi-layered storyline involving people in the present day reliving memories in a dream machine and all the blending in with the crowd stuff. They were just great historical action-RPGs. The ancient war between…

Designers—well, they’ve certainly been in the headlines recently, with the unveiling of the electric Ferrari Luce by legendary Apple designer Jony Ive. As a designer myself, I can sympathise with the scrutiny they face. It’s not easy working in a field where it often feels like everyone believes they could do better. Would a written…

Open the passenger door. Peer down into the footwell and there it is. The chassis plaque. The chassis plaque that states this is an original Land Rover Defender. Had a good chuckle? Yeah, what you’re looking at here isn’t so much a restomod as a culture clash. The original farmer’s friend gussied up as a…

Jack Rix: “The Polo isn’t planning on doing anything brave” I’ll admit the Polo GTI does look like a tidy little package. The old Up! GTI proved that small, fizzy GTI models were the palate cleanser we all need from bloated, overpowered performance cars.  However, how many times have we got excited about EV hot hatches…

While it looks mighty with its monstrous arches, vented bonnet and stripped out interior, there’s no getting away from the fact that Renault’s 533bhp 5 Turbo 3 E is a little bit pricey. Heck, it’s a little electric hatchback that costs £135,000 before options, and with a few boxes ticked you’re looking at a bill…

The Topolino (or ‘little mouse’) is basically a Fiatine interpretation of the Citroen Ami L7 quadricycle (they both sit under the Stellantis umbrellacorp), but with a tad more flair. Deliberately named after one of Fiat’s iconic original city cars, the 1950 Fiat Topolino 500, it’s a 28mph max, 46-mile range enclosed quadricycle with a 5.4kWh battery…

I recently spent the weekend at Goodwood’s secret best event. Far from the enormous crowds and lengthy toilet queues of the Festival of Speed and the faintly silly fancy dress party that is the Revival, the Goodwood Member’s Meeting is the best place on the planet to watch historic racing cars absolutely thrashed around a…

The car industry was a very different place before 1908, the year that the Ford Model T first went on sale. As the first car to crack true mass production and therefore be built at a rate that made ownership affordable, it was inevitable that demand would come from all over the world. By the…