Road Cars

Reviewed by Andrew Frankel in this month's edition of Motor Sport, Colin Chapman's own Lotus Esprit Turbo is as mercurial as the man himself

The name. I don’t like the name. Moderna. It sounds like someone trying to say the name of an Italian city in a silly accent. And a vaccine. Think about…

Sebastian Vettel is selling eight supercars from his collection, including several Ferraris bought while he was driving for the team. In what is described as "a little bit of collection…

Sometimes a car company launches a new car whose significance goes far beyond its price and position in the range. In effect it resets the company. Volkswagen did this last…

I have never known it happen before without the company concerned going to the wall, but on Monday Lotus announced it would, during the course of this year, cease production…

There is no doubt about it that, for good or ill, 2021 will be year in which electrification stopped being a subject more talked about than acted upon and became…

To be honest I doubt it was ever to have been a ‘vintage year’. When in a few decades someone writes about the transformation in the car industry that took…

We should be grateful for the last 1000km race ever to be held for prototype sports cars at the old Nürburgring in 1983 because it was also the only one…

So now we know: in nine years time the last car powered solely by petrol or diesel will have been sold in the UK. Make that 14 years for all…

The company that claimed a 331mph top speed for its road car has admitted that it may have got its figures wrong and is now planning a second run to…

If you’ve not seen it already, Bugatti has announced a new car. Called the Bugatti Bolide, it makes all its products launched since the 986bhp Veyron in 2005 look somewhat…

Remember Eamonn Andrews’ big red book on the ITV biographical show This Is Your Life? My Classic Car Life is a digital version of that weighty tome for your classic…

Shelby's Tuatara supercar has recorded a new production car record in a private run in Las Vegas, Nevada. It reached a top speed of 331mph and recorded 316mph during a…

McLaren Automotive must be hoping that the next ten years follows a smoother trajectory than its first. The start was horrendous – its launch car, the MP4-12C was introduced before…

I hope that the response of the general public to the reveal of the new BMW M3 and M4 is somewhat more charitable than that I’ve seen among the diehard…

The Mercedes-AMG Project One hypercar, built around the 2016 F1 championship-winning hybrid engine, has been seen and heard in testing before production starts at the end of the year. With…

The new DBX SUV is more than an Aston Martin in name alone, writes Andrew Frankel in this road test extract from the magazine