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The brilliant car designs of Giorgetto Giugiaro
Giorgetto Giugiaro has designed more big-selling cars than anybody else – and lots of niche models too. These are just some of the highlights He's been called the most influential car designer of all time Giorgetto Giugiaro entered his work into a student exhibition in 1955, where it was spotted by Fiat's technical director Dante Giacosa; the rest as they say is history. Let's see all the amazin
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21 controversial models from famous car manufacturers
Unreliable, ugly or both, these cars stood out in the worst possible way Even the most successful car companies miss the mark. We can think of many instances in which car firms (usually cash- or time-strapped) fumbled as they attempted to replace a popular model. Sometimes they got ahead of themselves by trying to fill a niche that didn’t exist yet – and that, in some cases, was never created. T
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How the RAF helped make Britain a sports car mega-power
What else to do with an abandoned airfield but make a world-class GP circuit or test track? Why are the British so good at making sports cars? It's a question put to me in an interview recently, to which a previous interviewee had said that, in times gone by (maybe even now), only the British would be barmy enough to stand in a small, cold shed and decide that a world-class small sports or racing
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Exclusive: Testing Renault's top secret new cars - with the firm's boss
We join for the most important day in Renault's calendar, as all the bosses check out what's coming next When François Provost, a distinguished Renault Group director of vast experience but low profile, suddenly succeeded Luca de Meo as CEO in July last year, there was no suggestion that he would be bothered about trying to mirror de Meo's well- chronicled star quality or instinct for headlines.
The cars that should have been stars, but weren't
We take a close look at the cars that deserved much greater success - and also a few cars that were suprising hits... From the moment the proud designer slides off the cloth cover, the car looks to be a nailed-on smash hit. Very often it is. But sometimes, a car that looks like a sure-fire winner fails to make the cut. Sometimes the car doesn’t drive in the ways its looks say it will. Sometimes
The most controversial cars made by Mercedes-Benz
Mercedes-Benz was the first to put the automobile into production, but that doesn’t mean all its cars since have been such a success… Mercedes is not a brand particularly known for controversy, at least compared with some we could mention. It has, however, had its moments, producing cars which certainly gave people pause for thought. Here, then, are 30 models which could, using the term very br
Morgan Supersport 400 review
Morgan gives its compelling Supersport a 20% power hike to make it bombastically fast This is the Morgan Supersport 400 and, as the name suggests, it has 400bhp (ish). That makes it the most powerful production Morgan ever and, at 344bhp per tonne, the one with the highest power-to-weight ratio.On sale now from £135,558, it sits beside the regular Supersport in the range and isn’t production- cap
Mercedes-AMG GLC 53
Straight-six SUV aims to banish memory of four-cylinder plug-in hybrid AMG is quietly changing direction with this new Mercedes-AMG GLC 53.Three years after launching the technically ambitious but commercially divisive four-cylinder GLC 63 S E-Performance, it has stepped back from the highly complex plug-in hybrid formula used by that car in favour of something that feels far more natural for a f
Pouch cells: Innovative battery tech links Mk1 Leaf and Cayenne EV
Cayenne EV's pack is made up of 32 pouch cells, just like the original Leaf's Few things in the history of automotive technology can have progressed quite as rapidly as the lithium-ion battery pack, variations of which power all EVs on the roads today. When Tesla broke the mould in 2013 with the Model S, its battery comprised many thousands of individual '18650' cylindrical cells. The name is der
Survivors: The world’s longest-living cars
While many models come and go, there are some that refuse to fall... While nameplates can sometimes seem eternal, it’s rare for a car to remain unchanged for more than a decade. Manufacturers redesign platforms to incorporate the latest advances in weight-saving materials and safety, and they tweak sheet metal to lure buyers into showrooms with the promise of something fresh. But this story is
Porsche Cayenne & Cayenne Coupe Electric
Stalwart luxury SUV turns electric for its next generation – with an astonishing peak output of 1140bhp The all-electric, fourth-generation Porsche Cayenne is now an imminent arrival on UK roads. Before the summer is out, we should have Autocar’s very own set of benchmark measurements and numbers, a full set of impressions, and a definitive UK verdict on what might be Zuffenhausen’s most importan
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