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This is Aston Martin’s new One-77, an ultra-exclusive £1.2m supercar-cum-work-of-art. A maximum 77 of these bespoke creations will be produced, hence the name, each one underpinned by an all-new...

Andrea Pininfarina – the chief executive of the fabled Italian coachbuilder bearing his name – died today in a road accident. He was the grandson of founder Battista Farina and son of Sergio...

The 2008 Goodwood Revival this autumn will be even more of a throwback to the ‘good old days’ of motor racing, the organisers promise. The Revival celebrates two milestones this year – the 60th...

The BMW 330d Coupe has just been made redundant because Alpina, the Buchloe-based tuner, tweaker and BMW bedfellow, has released the D3 Bi-Turbo Coupe. Alpina engineers have taken BMW’s twin-turbo...

A million extra speeding tickets are being dished out every year compared with when Labour first came to power in 1997, the Opposition claimed this week. The Conservatives have published figures...

Aston Martin and Mercedes are plotting a wide-ranging tie-up that could see the two famous brands collaborate on engines, hybrids, transmission and even entire platforms, CAR can reveal. The...

This is the sixth-generation Volkswagen Golf - officially unveiled today after a string of leaks - with new looks inspired by the Scirocco and a higher-quality interior. But underneath the new Golf's...

Nissan has unveiled a brace of new technologies to make driving in the 21st century cleaner and greener – but they also signal a further erosion of driver independence, ceding more control from man to...

Here are the first pictures of the all-new Honda Jazz, the follow-up to the super-clever supermini that’s been on sale since 2002. You’ll have to wait until autumn 2008 for Honda’s UK dealers to...

Ferrari likes to win, and so, not content with having to fight McLaren for the Formula 1 championship, it is venturing into the A1GP series. From the start of the 2008/09 season all A1GP cars will be...

Official figures for the recent London motor show today reveal a 14 percent increase in visitor numbers. The British International Motor Show at London's Excel arena attracted 472,300 people over the...

We've added nine new images to our Wallpaper gallery from the September 2008 edition of CAR Magazine. Click here to see the new wallpapers. CAR Magazine has the best photographs of the world's most...

Toyota has just unveiled the ‘Winglet’, one of its ‘people-assisting Partner Robots’.  It isn’t exactly a car per se, but it has wheels, a motor, and it is a valid alternative to walking. It even has...

Jealous that you can’t afford one of the umpteen variations of Porsche’s new 911? Can’t get hold of the sold-out Cayman S Porsche Design Edition 1 and Boxster RS60 Spyder? Never fear, because Porsche...

This is Volkswagen’s new Mk6 Golf, and these first pictures have been leaked onto the internet by a foreign website ahead of the new Golf's official unveiling later this week. Mechanical details are...

A video guide to the best bits from the London motor show

CAR Online is two years old today! We launched on 1 August 2006 as the official website of CAR Magazine, and since CAR Online has grown its community of users twenty-fold to become one of the UK's...

The covers – and the roof – have come off the latest Bugatti Veyron. This is the new Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport, a targa-top version of infamous 987bhp supercar. Details are still scant, Bugatti...

Ford’s Ka – the cheeky, lovable and classless city car – is back. Still called Ka, the new model will make its show debut at Paris in autumn 2008, before going on sale in the UK by the end of the...

CAR Online today launches its new supercar zone – a celebration of all things supercar related. We name the greatest and most significant supercars over the past four decades to coincide with the...

For a company that specialises in more accessible sports cars, Porsche has grade A provenance in the supercar sector. The original '70s 911 Turbo was a prescient car, proving that Zuffenhausen had the...

As with so many supercar companies, Lamborghini was the vision of one man: Ferruccio Lamborghini. He founded it in 1962 after a successful career making tractors. The Sant'Agata Bolognese birthplace...

It's a small world, Supercar Valley. Former Lambo man Horacio Pagani upped sticks and set up his own Modenese business, using composites experience garnered on his watch at Sant'Agata to showcase his...

The SLR is the fruit of a strange motor industry marriage. Collaborating as they do in motorsport, Woking and Stuttgart decided to build a road car that showcased their full-bodied technical know-how.

For a company that calls itself a purveyor of 'ultimate driving machines', it hasn't much form in the supercar arena. However, its one real entry is one hell of an effort. The '70s M1 was a...

Say 'supercar' and the man in the street thinks of Ferrari. Eponymous founding father Enzo set up in Modena in 1929 as the Scuderia race team, and it wasn't unitl 1947 that the first road cars...

Conceived as Ron Dennis and his closest allies were held up in an airport lounge, the F1 remains for many the definitive supercar. Woking-based McLaren Automotive is part of the F1-focused McLaren...

You could say that Bugatti has been round the houses. Originally founded in 1909, it ceased trading in the Sixties. Rich Italian maverick Romano Artioli revived the brand in 1987 and in the following...

The Blue Oval might be more at home building Escorts and Mondeos, but it too has dabbled in the superecar arena in the past four decades. And considering the company's main engineering focus, the two...

Luxury saloon specialist Jaguar has one genuine supercar contender under its belt, CAR would postulate. The XJ220 was born at the height of the supercar boom – but suffered the market collapse, and...

What happens when the Swedes take on the might of the supercar fraternity? Answer: the Koenigsegg. Christian von Koenigsegg's operation is way more than Ferrari meets Ikea – his products exude a...

See Ford's new Focus RS in CAR's new video – where we drive the Mk1 RS and pore all over the new 2008 RS, with a little help from the man responsible for both models: Jost Captio. CAR's new video is...

Ascari is a newcomer to the supercar stable – and has a cosmopolitan flavour shot through its whole DNA. The company is owned by a Dutchman, the cars are built in England and they own their own race...

Audi is the fledgling player in the supercar arena. Yes, it's shown numerous concepts over the years, but it wasn't until the 2007 R8 arrived that we could actually drive a supercar with Ingolstadt's...

The best  bits of the London motor show on video

A team of CAR reader reporters joined us at the international press day of the London motor show earlier this week – and you can now rate their reports live on CAR Online. You might be familiar with...