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The UK’s car industry is being given a massive £130m boost… and no, it’s not so it can temporarily repair that nasty pothole on your road. That’d bankrupt the treasury. No, the money’s for developing the electric and self-driving cars that’ll create more of them. As part of its ‘Drive35’ programme, the UK government will…

Porsche isn’t building a true supercar right now. There’s an unsightly gap where the successor to the 918 Spyder should be. Into that vacuum, Porsche-adjacent companies are VERY happy to pour their idea of a 911-ish supercar. There’s the Kalmar 9X9. The Tuthill GT-One. The RML GTH. And the Singer DLS-T. And now there’s Marc Philipp…

So many things came together just right to make TOCA 2: Touring Cars as good as it was. First of all, when Banbury-based Codemasters decided to make a game about the British Touring Car Championship in 1997, the sport was just about to enter a golden age. Its governing body got the regulations absolutely spot on…

What on earth has happened to that Giulia Quadrifoglio? Ah yes, this is one of the crazy creations of Alfa and Maserati’s relatively new (and joint) ‘BOTTEGAFUORISERIE’ skunkworks division. You may know the ‘few-off’ folk from their work on the Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale and the track-only Maserati MCXtrema, but what you’re looking at here…

As we speak, the DS no.8 is currently having a service. Schedule clashes and timings meant it’s popped off fairly late, but nothing an EV can’t handle. So we’ll run through what’s actually been done next time. In the meantime, I’ve managed to get a DS No.4 E-Tense to sample more of the DS Automobiles…

This year’s MotoGP race at Silverstone was fought on the absolute ragged edge. You didn’t need a graphical overlay full of battery deployment meters to see it, because the way Marco Bezzecchi walked onto the podium – very slowly, utterly depleted, helped by an Aprilia team member under each arm – amply demonstrated it instead.…

As we speak, the DS no.8 is currently having a service. Schedule clashes and timings meant it’s popped off fairly late, but nothing an EV can’t handle. So we’ll run through what’s actually been done next time. In the meantime, I’ve managed to get a DS No.4 E-Tense to sample more of the DS Automobiles…

Porsche isn’t building a true supercar right now. There’s an unsightly gap where the successor to the 918 Spyder should be. Into that vacuum, Porsche-adjacent companies are VERY happy to pour their idea of a 911-ish supercar. There’s the Kalmar 9X9. The Tuthill GT-One. The RML GTH. And the Singer DLS-T. And now there’s Marc Philip…

Yes, you’d like to just see the full, finished car in one go, but this is the game so we must play. You’ve seen the outside of the entirely delectable JAS Tensei here, here, definitely here, maybe also here, and now you can see inside the near-million-quid resto for the first time. JAS’s partner on…

Remember the Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe we brought you news of a couple of months back? Y’know, the one with a swashbuckling 1,153bhp and 1,475lb ft from three electric motors, plus fake V8 noises? Well, now there’s a new, entry-level variant, which turns down the volume. Slightly. The aforementioned GT 4-Door Coupe was, of course,…