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You know this car in Britain as the Shogun, but most other markets received it as the Pajero, coming from the Latin name for the wild Pampas cat. Not in Spanish-speaking markets, though – there, ‘pajero’ roughly translates to a word you might yell at someone who’s just cut you in traffic, accompanied by a…

A couple of weeks ago, a car company revealed an electric car. And then the world exploded a bit. If Ferrari wanted the Luce to ignite the EV conversation, it certainly succeeded. One suspects Ferrari would have preferred those conversations not to include topics such as ‘why does it look like a swollen Nissan Leaf?’…

Objectively, scientifically, the M25 is hateful. Anyone who’s spent more than 30 seconds on London’s orbital motorway knows this. 4pm Fridays? Nightmarish. 3am on a Sunday in mid-December? Also nightmarish after three lanes are closed to investigate a suspicious object that turns out to be a Lidl carrier bag and, yes, this is where you…

Mankind was built to exceed itself. Chuck Yeager smashed through the sound barrier in an experimental rocket plane. Neil Armstrong bounced on the Moon. That weird dude from France ate an entire aircraft, piece by piece. And today, Ollie Kew and I are out to take our place in that pantheon of brave pioneers. Our…

Fiat has finally unveiled its take on the Vauxhall Frontera and Citroen C3 Aircross, and it will be called… the Grizzly. Yep, it’s sticking with the bear theme. “Grande Panda marked the return of Fiat to affordable family movers,” said boss Olivier Francois. “With Grizzly and Grizzly Fastback, we’re completing this lineup with two vehicles…

Having fielded a grand prix team for the first time since the 1930s, Audi is aiming to feed off that buzz with a 1,001bhp supercar. To connect those dots, it’s named the Nuvolari, after Tazio Nuvolari. probably the greatest driver of that era, and sometime pilot of those snorting supercharged V12 Auto Union Type D…

Jack Rix: “We’ve long championed the resurgence of the MPV” How to tell you’re firmly installed in your forties? When a new E-van is the product you’re most excited about in the current Merc range. Actually, Merc’s product planners and my age can share the blame for that. Anyway, we’ve long championed the resurgence of…

For two weeks every year, the Isle of Man does something quite strange. It stops being a quiet, damp, self-contained rock in the Irish Sea and becomes the centre of the motorcycling universe. Some 50,000 people come for the TT – a one-of-a-kind motorcycle race where the bravest, maddest and most committed riders on Earth…

So that’s what the mysterious social teasers were all about: UK games studio Maverick Games has just revealed Clutch, a sumptuous and ambitious racing game that goes hard on the customisation options and features a story about two siblings competing in one racing league while moonlighting in another. If you like BMW 850 CSIs and open roads,…

This is a special 911 GT3 Touring that was specced through Porsche’s Sonderwunsch programme to mark 15 years of the company’s presence in Moldova. Usually, we would glance at this news and move on – even with the fancy gradient paint finish that transitions from Violapurplemetallic at the front to Chromaflair Magic Magenta at the…