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What car should Schuey drive?
Picture the scenario – you’re a Mercedes-Benz PR person. Your company has just built a menacing 571bhp Gullwing-door supercar. Then, a few months down the line, you re-enter Formula One and sign one of the world’s most famous – and … Continue reading
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When footballers modify
Footballers are a strange bunch aren’t they? Let’s be honest, for most blokes it’s the dream job – getting paid to keep fit by kicking a ball around for 90-plus minutes watched by thousands and adored by more.
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What kind of supercar do YOU want to see?
We love rendered supercars. They look fantastic, have impossible performance figures and rekindle the childhood glee of drawing rocket-powered cars with machine guns on the side. With crayons of course. When you get older, crayons turn into Photoshop and machine … Continue reading
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Auto Trader’s caption competition
Picture the scenario – you’re out on a nice afternoon drive in your Renault Laguna when suddenly… Someone chops off the roof and drives it straight into the ocean. They might get far, but the bucket doesn’t really inspire confidence … Continue reading
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Muscle beach
We’ve just brought you some of the world’s most powerful cars – including a twin-turbo Lamborghini and a new British supercar weighing in at 1,800bhp. But is this too much? I mean, on UK roads anything more than 200bhp is … Continue reading
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Dream Drives
Yesterday we ran a piece on rendered supercars. Penned by up-and-coming designers fed up of waiting for manufacturers to produce the kinds of cars we want to see, they’ve put mouse to screen and created their own. And some of … Continue reading
Beached Bugatti: Car-ma?
The sight of a marooned Bugatti Veyron in a saltwater lagoon in Texas was enough to get us reaching for the Kleenex (steady). A car of such magnitude deserved a better life than that, perhaps spent rifling around five-star hotels … Continue reading
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Do you love your ‘Beast’?
Hollywood A-lister and petrolhead Eric Bana has just released his new DVD documentary Love the Beast. It follows his trials as he rebuilds his beloved 1974 Ford Falcon coupe into a racing car – and the heartache and … Continue reading
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Absolute power corrupts absolutely
Surely cars can’t get any more powerful? British carmaker Arash Farboud has just unveiled details of the long-awaited Enzo-like supercar: the Arash AF-10.
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Weird celebrity cars
We’ve just found 2006 Celebrity Big Brother winner Chantelle Houghton’s old Alpina B10 (above) for sale on our site. Now, far from casting judgement on celebrities, I can’t help but think that Chantelle’s choice of car is a little…odd.
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