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Who? Drove like the devil, lived like a saint. Meet Ab Jenkins: breaker of over 500 speed records, pioneer of the Bonneville Salt Flats, city mayor, devout Mormon. Not a exactly a party animal, then? Not unless your idea of a party is ‘driving a mad homebuilt plane-engined racecar very far, very fast, before having…

The UK is sweltering in a heatwave, with temperatures reaching levels so fearsome that even Australians might consider removing that second sweater. Accordingly, Britons are gearing themselves for the traditional challenges of a hot snap: sweaty nights, mint Cornetto shortages and, worst of all, the inevitable glut of warm weather driving tips, gravely dishing out…

This drivable concept car is a beautiful example of the weight spiral running in reverse. That’s very good news, as the weight spiral, in its normal direction, is knocking holes in the vibrancy, efficiency and affordability of most modern cars. You know it: more power needs a heavier cooling system, heavier transmission, heavier brakes, heavier…

Hannah Fry is a maths professor, science writer and broadcaster, and has reshared a – quite literally – cool tip on how to quickly lower the temperature inside your car using nothing more than a few embarrassing movements and a rear window. No, she’s not advocating you go all Hitchcock and start spying on your…

Surely not. An electric pickup? Well spotted. The only people taking EV pickups seriously have been the Americans (but of course), with monsters like the Ford F-150 Lightning, Rivian R1T, GMC Sierra and Tesla Cybertruck all stalking the Land of the Free. Brits and Europeans just haven’t had the space or the appetite… until now.…

It’s official: Slate Auto’s premiere vehicle will cost a mere $24,950. We reported on this just last week when a curious busybody leaked it after a nose around Slate’s preorder website code, discovering the price in a line of text meant to go live, er, now, we suppose. While decidedly more than the sub-$20k entry…

You’ll never guess what – there’s been some actual GTA 6 news. Not the kind of convoluted nonsense you keep seeing on your news feed, but significant new info from developer Rockstar detailing all the preorder bonus items in its Vintage Vice City pack, and in the Ultimate Edition. Let’s start with the latter. Preorders don’t go…

Back in 2024, Morgan gave us a bit of a shock by revealing the exquisite Pininfarina-designed Midsummer. This was a coachbuilt special with a hand-crafted aluminium body and design inspired by roadsters of the 1930s and 40s. It was also limited to just 50 examples, and by the time we’d seen it all were sold…

A fledging automotive company is developing a bombastic new hypercar, and… wait, come back! For this be no ordinary bombastic new hypercar. It’s a hypercar that features a superbike-style seating position. So no, in this instance it’s not the heat melting your brain. It’s the pictures of the new Sanrivatti and its ‘Apex Position’. Sounds…

The Ioniq 5 was the first of a new, genuinely desirable family of all-electric cars from Hyundai, which has since been followed by the Ioniq 6 and the chuffing massive Ioniq 9. A smaller Ioniq 3 has already been shown off and will arrive on UK roads soon. Expect that to be a rather excellent…