Video: Porsche 918 Spyder battles a Koenigsegg Agera R in hypercar drag race
IF HYPERCARS are all about posturing and oneupmanship, it is inevitable that their owners would want to square up, man to man, wing mirror to wing mirror, and race. That’s exactly what happens in this...
View ArticleYours for £2.5m: The world's most expensive cars
WHAT IS an oligarch to do when a Mercedes is too mundane and a Porsche too predictable? A new generation of status-obsessed billionaires is driving up the price of the world’s most expensive cars....
View ArticleNews: Koenigsegg Regera hypercar said to generate nearly 1,800bhp
FIRST THERE were supercars. Then there were hypercars. Now there’s the Koenigsegg Regera, which with a claimed 1,782bhp surely takes the game to a new level entirely. And, assuming that’s not a case...
View ArticleClarkson’s Five-Star Cars — Part 1: 2002-2008
IT IS the ultimate accolade from the ultimate petrolhead — a five-star review from Jeremy Clarkson. Since a mercurial Mercedes first won the top rating in 2002, few have made the grade. As the first...
View ArticleClarkson on: supercars
BY JEREMY Clarkson’s reckoning, supercars are one of the most fantastic yet irrational purchases you can make. They’re expensive, they burn fuel and rubber at absurd rates, you can’t drive them fast on...
View ArticleHennessey claims mind-blowing 311mph top speed for Venom F5 hypercar
WE MAY be in an age of increasing fuel economy and tightening emissions standards but it looks like we’re also entering a new era of production car speed records after American firm Hennessey said the...
View ArticleThe best new cars coming in 2019-2020
NEW CAR sales may have slumped last year — apparently on the back of dieselgate and uncertainty over Brexit, as people delayed “big ticket” purchases — but with the market and politics in turmoil, car...
View ArticleMe and My Motor: Gary Numan, electronic musician
“THIS MIGHT sound a bit obvious, but I really did write Cars about me sitting in my car,” explains Gary Numan, who had a No 1 hit with the song in 1979. “Because of my Asperger’s [syndrome], I’ve never...
View Article2019 Geneva Motor Show: a bluffers guide to the star cars (updated)
ALL EYES (in the motoring world, at least) are on western Switzerland this week for the 2019 Geneva Motor Show. Though car makers such as Ford, Jaguar and Land Rover have decided to skip one of the...
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