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Summer has arrived early and the automotive calendar is bustling, with many of its big-ticket events being fancy concours displays. Y’know the sort: priceless Ferraris and vintage Bugattis lined up by the one percenters to lap up the wonder and reverence they hardly lacked in the first place. Which is perhaps why Lincolnshire’s Festival of…

On the road: summer 2026 Any fears that Bugatti’s joint venture with Rimac might have led to it going electric were quickly dispelled with the Tourbillon, which is set to start landing with customers very soon, around two years after its original unveiling. A quick reminder of the vital statistics: an 8.3-litre Cosworth-built V16 engine,…

In raw performance numbers, the radio controlled cars of 1999’s Re-Volt might seem painfully slow compared to the Bugatti Chiron Supersports and Koenigsegg CCXs of Forza Horizon et al. Ask any RC bore, though, and they’ll tell you, it’s all about ‘scale speed’ and that they were actually going at the real world equivalent of…

If you want an unbiased Twingo review, I might not be your guy. I had an original Twingo in the 1990s. It was a happy car, and fitted my life in ways a great car does: it created for itself use-cases that no other car would have satisfied. The new one is intended to remind…

What was going through the heads of Audi’s engineers back in the winter of 2022, when BMW suddenly invented the fast estate car? The hype around the first M3 Touring was fanatical. Audi’s three-decade heritage of RS2, RS4s and RS6s was eclipsed overnight. Did they sneer with quiet contentment knowing their next contender would blow…

This is the AC Cobra GT Coupe. It is a coupe built by “Britain’s oldest active vehicle manufacturer” AC Cars and is a version of the classic Cobra that comes pre-filled with 5.0-litres of Ford V8. It also comes pre-filled with a roof. Time to go back to the future, then. Chiefly because while Cobras…

Evidently quite a lot of us have been expecting you, Mr Bond: within just 24 hours of release, 007 First Light has already racked up over 1.5m sales. That’s more units in the opening day of release than any of the Hitman titles, which Danish studio Io Interactive created before this Bond origin story. It’s gone down…

Great news for people who spend their spare time pretending to be racing car drivers, because after several successful shows in Germany, SimRacing Expo made its first appearance in North America at the home of NASCAR, Charlotte, North Carolina. Gathering together some of the biggest names in simracing hardware and software, the three day show…

James Bond, like his cinematic fellows Aliens and Lord of the Rings, is a property that seems a slam dunk for videogames until you actually play the games and realise that at least half of them are abominable. It should be so easy – Aston Martin, tuxedo, pistol, one liners, gadget watch, heavy accents of…

There’s a Porsche 911 under there. It’s almost been consumed now, just the back bumper to go. And then, what? Well, we’ll never know, because the metamorphosis is already complete. Just a little hint of 964 left poking out the back of a monstrous gaping mouth. A piggy’s rump in the snake’s distended jaws. It’ll…