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Andrew Frankel

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Senior Contributing Writer

After an inglorious stint in the City convinced him that he could handle cars better than he handled money, Andrew joined Autocar many years ago as a junior tester. Since then he has become one of the industry’s senior figures, writing for the national papers as well as the specialist press. When not driving exotics at Goodwood he’s racing anything from Caterhams to Ferraris. Editor of Motor Sport for five years, he now runs our road test section.

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Rolls-Royce Ghosts retrace historic trip

18/06/13

A hundred years ago, four Rolls-Royce Ghosts left England bound for the Alps. Three were factory prepared cars, one was …

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Should Audi quit racing at Le Mans?

11/06/13

If the season so far had not provided all the evidence you need of Audi’s dominance of sports car racing, …

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Ford Fiesta ST

06/06/13

Blue Oval creates headache for rivals with sharp new sports hatch

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The rising price of Aston Martins

04/06/13

Am I alone in still goggling at some of the prices paid for Aston Martins at Bonhams’ sale at Newport …

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Driving Toyota’s Le Mans car (sort of)

28/05/13

Approaching Tertre Rouge at 130mph in the Toyota TS030, the words of Sébastien Buemi came back to me. ‘You can …

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Dacia Sandero Access

23/05/13

Welcome to the cheap seats – Romania drives a hard bargain

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Autobahns to stay without limits

21/05/13

Spare a moment if you will for one Sigmar Gabriel, chairman of the German Social Democratic Party who took the …

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Jaguar F-type V8 S

16/05/13

At long last, the Cat is out of the bag…

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Peugeot 205GTI vs 208GTI

14/05/13

I’ll admit that, thanks to the presence of a Peugeot 205GTI in my shed, I was more torn than usual …

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Christian Devereux: tragedy at Donington

07/05/13

This column was originally intended to be a reflection on the weekend’s Donington Historic Festival which, for two of its …

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The rapid rise of historic racing

30/04/13

This weekend my race season will get somewhat belatedly underway. I’m at the Donington Historic Festival where I shall be …

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Porsche Cayenne GTS

25/04/13

I could be wrong, but I think the first time Porsche used the ‘GTS’ term was for the 1964 Carrera GTS…

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The art of oversteer

23/04/13

This week I want to talk about oversteer, that curious condition requiring you to steer a car in the other …

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Mini Cooper John Cooper Works GP

18/04/13

This is the most entertaining Mini of the modern generation and unlike the Clubman, Countryman…

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The new Jaguar F-type

17/04/13

At one minute past midnight this morning, I became allowed to tell you I’ve driven the Jaguar F-type. In fact …

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Audi R8 V10 Plus S-tronic

11/04/13

Recently I drove an Audi R8 for the first time in too many years and was reminded again what a wonderful…