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Should you need evidence of how awash the Nineties were with impossibly good-looking coupes wearing everyday badges, look no further. This was Volvo long before its £100k electric SUV glow-up. Thus, the arrival in its showrooms of an Ian Callum-penned, TWR-engineered two-door – motivated by five-cylinder power, no less – bordered on the shocking back…

Remember when Captain Slow very briefly held the world speed record for a production road car? Back in 2010, James strapped himself into the then-new Veyron Super Sport at Ehra-Lessien and hit a barnstorming top speed of 259mph, only for Bugatti test driver Pierre Henri Raphanel to go out a couple of hours later and…

The Roma was no one’s favourite Ferrari. Oh, it was knuckle gnawingly beautiful, if you could accept the weird holepunched colour coded grille. Exceedingly fast. Unique in the Prancing Horse stable: the first ever front engined V8 coupe from Maranello.  And the Ferrari you were most likely to actually own, partly because it was (at…

Remind me what we’re looking at here? A controversial rear wing with a Porsche 911 bolted to it. This is Singer’s DLS Turbo, arguably the wildest thing anyone’s ever done with an old Porsche 911: a 710bhp twin-turbo flat-six levered into the back of a 35-year-old 964 and allowed to send all its power to…

It looks like SUV drivers in London could be hit with extra charges to drive in the capital, with a TfL report suggesting that “without action to address oversized and heavier vehicles, more people will be seriously injured or killed”. It’s all part of the mayor of London’s Vision Zero action plan, which was first…

There’s a price war brewing in the admittedly rather niche seven-seat plug-in hybrid SUV market, and perhaps unsurprisingly it’s the Chinese carmakers that are leading the way. You see, this is the new MG S9 PHEV, and at £34,205 it undercuts the similarly-sized Chery Tiggo 9 by almost £9,000. For reference, it’s also very nearly…

Yes, that headline is accurate. Somewhere out there in the world there’s a petri dish full of human brain bits that’s able to play seminal 1993 shooter Doom. No, we don’t know what to do with that information either. This disquieting news was made possible by the Cortical Labs and their CL1 computer – commercially available…

Motorways and major trunk roads are known collectively as the “strategic road network”. A BBC report tells me that the SRN accounts for two per cent of England’s roads by mileage, but carries a third of all traffic ­and two-thirds of all freight. That’s some food for thought. A banquet, in fact. The M25 is…

“Volkswagen will transfer more established names to the electric portfolio with each new model generation,” was the line that VW trotted out when it announced late last year that its ID.2all concept would make production as the ID. Polo. And yet, it seems that all of that sensibleness has already been thrown in the bin,…

Well, wow. Honda has cancelled the development and release of the wedgy 0 Series saloon and SUV, along with the Acura RSX EV, because… well, just wow. So many reasons. And Honda hasn’t pulled any punches nor hidden behind any corporate speak. Indeed, the Japanese carmaker is astonishingly frank about its current predicament. It said…