Another day, another brace of Audis. But we like them. This time it's the A4 Avant range. Replacing the 80 estates, the Avants compete directly with BMW's trend-setting Tourings. All…

Back in 1991, BMW launched a much-hyped coupe to replace the elegant, outgoing M635CSi. Whilst the superseded model rapidly acquired 'classic' status, the newcomer didn't exactly roll into its wheeltracks…

Mini is on the brink of announcing its return to frontline rallying, with a World Championship assault planned for 2011 based on the new four-wheel-drive Countryman. Prodrive, which oversaw Subaru’s…

Cardiff, Wales What should have been the ultimate title showdown became a tale of two broken radiators when the fight for the 2011 World Rally Championship reached its climax on…

There used to be a school of thought that the Toyota Supra was a second division footballer's car. Powerful, athletic, but perhaps not quite subtle enough to make the top…

By Robert Kubica's standards the answer was short, albeit tinged with the Pole's slightly off-beat humour, which has endeared him to the rallying fraternity since he took up the sport…

Kris Meeke is unsure when he will make his next appearance in the World Rally Championship amid the financial woes currently engulfing the factory MINI team. The Northern Irish driver…

News of an investigation into alleged asset stripping at a bank in Lithuania should not have so much as raised an eyebrow for the World Rally Championship’s powerbrokers when the…

Volkswagen added victory on the Acropolis Rally – the WRC’s roughest and toughest event – to its impressive roster of wins at the start of June, but this time it…

Mitsubishi Carisma The 1996 Carisma is Mitsubishi's first European-built model and is intended to be a Vauxhall Vectra/Ford Mondeo basher certainly as far as running cost per mile is concerned.…

While Sébastien Ogier took a little more than four kilometres to become World Rally Champion for the first time, nine-time title winner Sébastien Loeb reckoned it would have taken 400…