Audi R8 5.2 V10 FSI (2009) review Price: £99,575 04 February 2009 by Ben Barry First full test of the amazing – but £100k – V10 R8 Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 4 out of 5 5 out of 5 Read more ...
e-Ruf (2008) CAR review: the electric 911 Price: £120,000 02 December 2008 by Ben Oliver Ruf builds the world's first electric 911 and CAR has been for a drive Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 5 out of 5 3 out of 5 1 out of 5 5 out of 5 Read more ...
Farbio GTS 400 Supercharged (2008) review Price: £94,000 21 November 2008 by Car magazine Exclusive drive! CAR is first to drive supercharged Farbio. The supercar from the Cotswolds Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 3 out of 5 4 out of 5 Read more ...
Mercedes SL65 AMG Black Series (2008) CAR review and video Price: £250,000 06 November 2008 by Ben Barry This is the Mercedes-Benz AMG SL65 Black Series, the star of CAR Magazine’s December 2008 cover. CAR was invited to an exclusive test drive of this outlandish machine on road and track at Mas du Clos,... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 5 out of 5 3 out of 5 5 out of 5 Read more ...
Aston Martin DBS Touchtronic (2008) review Price: £165,500 29 October 2008 by Ben Oliver Not even James Bond has driven the Aston Martin DBS Touchtronic yet. Quantum of Solace is just about to open but Daniel Craig must content himself with the standard manual DBS. We’ve already driven... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 5 out of 5 2 out of 5 5 out of 5 Read more ...
Gumpert Apollo S (2008) review Price: £275,000 24 September 2008 by Mark Walton Everything you need to know about the Gumpert Apollo is there from the outset, worn on the sleeve and clearly visible the first time you look at it. Or should that be ‘stare’ at it. Compact, brutish,... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 1 out of 5 4 out of 5 Read more ...
Corvette ZR1 (2008) review Price: £108,000 11 September 2008 by Georg Kacher The new Corvette ZR1 is the world’s quickest and rawest sports car – only mad supercars and insane track cars can best it. This is a bright yellow bullet, with 638bhp (making it the most powerful... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 Read more ...
Artega GT (2008) review Price: £60,000 09 September 2008 by Georg Kacher The new Artega GT is a Porsche Cayman S rival at 911 money from a brand new German manufacturer. Delusions of grandeur? Perhaps not, because the chief advisor to the project is Karlheinz Kalbfell, an... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 5 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 Read more ...
Porsche Carrera GT (2008) review Price: £330,000 04 August 2008 by Car magazine The Porsche Carrera GT is – or was – arguably the world’s best-selling supercar. Initially Porsche planned to manufacture 1500 of the mid-engined targa-topped two-seaters, but the Leipzig production... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 3 out of 5 5 out of 5 Read more ...
Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 (2008) review Price: £147,330 13 May 2008 by Chris Chilton The first baby Lambo to crack 200mph is far from all-new, but the Gallardo LP560-4 has more to offer over the old car than simply a front bumper that looks like it was pinched from a Ferrari Enzo. Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 3 out of 5 5 out of 5 Read more ...
Aston Martin Vantage N24 (2008) review Price: £100,000 21 April 2008 by Nick Trott We at CAR have a soft spot for the Aston Martin Vantage N24. Back in 2006 we sensed there was a story brewing when Aston Martin announced that it would enter a road-legal V8 Vantage in the legendary... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 1 out of 5 5 out of 5 Read more ...
Mercedes SL63 AMG (2008) review Price: £94,000 09 March 2008 by Chris Chilton Mercedes’ SL gets a new face for 2008 but there’s far more to the SL63 AMG than simple cosmetic surgery. As the name suggests, the big Benz sports car finally adopts the naturally aspirated V8 that’s... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 5 out of 5 4 out of 5 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 Read more ...
Corvette C6 (2008) review Price: £45,995 27 February 2008 by Glen Waddington GM sees the Corvette as a genuine Porsche 911 rival, so much so that it claims to have benchmarked this lightly revised version of the sixth-generation car directly against it. The 911. Yes, you read... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 4 out of 5 3 out of 5 3 out of 5 Read more ...
Aston Martin V8 Vantage N400 (2008) review Price: £94,000 19 February 2008 by Tim Pollard It’s a sign of the times at Gaydon that Aston Martin has produced three new models since it walked away from Ford ownership in 2007. Sounds impressive until you realise that all of them are special... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 5 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 5 out of 5 Read more ...
Lamborghini Reventon (2007) review 04 December 2007 by the CAR road test team You’re driving Darth Vader’s car! Yes, Lamborghini’s outrageous Reventon is unlike anything else we’ve seen. Unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show last month, the Reventon is about the meanest, baddest... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 4 out of 5 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 3 out of 5 5 out of 5 Read more ...
Nissan GT-R (2008) review Price: £65,000 04 December 2007 by Gavin Green Nissan GT-R. Finally, the full-blown road test… Yes, after all the hype, the teaser images, the passenger rides and interviews, we’ve finally been let loose in the Nissan GT-R, one of the most... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 4 out of 5 5 out of 5 Read more ...
Nissan GT-R (2007) – first ride review Price: £60,000 24 October 2007 by Ben Barry You’ve had a ride in the new Nissan GT-R, then? We have, as you might have seen on our video clip. When CAR was invited to photograph the GT-R in Hokkaido (on a strictly look but don’t touch basis),... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 0 out of 5 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 3 out of 5 4 out of 5 Read more ...
Aston Martin DBS (2008) review Price: £160,000 19 October 2007 by Chris Chilton I know Bond drove it last year but what’s all the fuss about? It’s a DB9 with a bodykit isn’t it? Steady on. The DBS is certainly based on the DB9 but then so is the DBR9 racer that won the GT1 class... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 0 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 4 out of 5 5 out of 5 Read more ...
Porsche 911 GT2 (2008) review Price: £131,070 28 September 2007 by Georg Kacher Another yawnworthy 911? Or a yee-hah one? Definitely the latter. 911 Turbo not hard enough? Then how about removing the four-wheel drive, sir? Want to smash the magical 200mph barrier? Soak in the... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 3 out of 5 5 out of 5 Read more ...
Ferrari 430 Scuderia (2007) review Price: £172,500 25 September 2007 by Ben Barry So you’ve driven the Ferrari 430 Scuderia. Remind me, what is it? The Scuderia is essentially a pared back and re-focused Ferrari F430. Scuderia means team in Italian and, for Italian car fans, the... Car Handling Performance Usability Feelgood Car ratings 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 5 out of 5 4 out of 5 5 out of 5 Read more ...