Mulling modded guilty pleasures of the 1980s 19 June 2012 by Chris Chilton Celebrating some of dodgiest Teutonic tuning excesses Read more ...
Build it yourself Porsche 911 GT3 RS 29 December 2011 by Chris Chilton Chris Chilton gets tempted by scale model of the 911 Read more ...
Are diesel particulate filters more trouble than they’re worth? 26 August 2011 by Chris Chilton Why some drivers are removing DPFs to save money Read more ...
Off-road in the Range Rover Evoque 05 April 2011 by Chris Chilton Can the new baby Rangie handle the rough stuff? Read more ...
The alternative Performance Car of the Year 31 December 2010 by Chris Chilton Can't afford our PCOTY entrants? Here's the cut-price alternatives we recommend Read more ...
Why we’ve all got to retrain for the electric revolution 17 August 2010 by Chris Chilton New e-tech means we all have to go back to school Read more ...
The Arthur Daley Jags and why it’s not all glamour 21 May 2010 by Chris Chilton Some XJ40 tales from our grease monkey past Read more ...
Why I ended up buying two E12 BMW M535i’s 28 January 2010 by Chris Chilton Chilton's habit: two identical '80s M cars on his drive Read more ...
Mini memories: Chris Chilton remembers a life of Minis 21 September 2009 by Chris Chilton Our assistant editor reveals his favourite Mini moments Read more ...
Will the Germans ever win? A magazine retrospective 30 December 2008 by Chris Chilton An old issue of CAR gets Chris Chilton thinking Read more ...
Why we chose Wales for Performance Car of the Year 2008 24 September 2008 by Chris Chilton We like Wales. You’d like it too if you don’t already. This place is like a giant playground for the car obsessed. The scenery is epic but the roads are even better. We needed a great track for this... Read more ...
Porsches aren’t just about the horsepower 28 April 2008 by Chris Chilton While chatting to Arash Farboud, the man behind both the original Farboud GT and the new Arash supercar (with a naming policy as imaginative as that he's going to be stuck if he ever builds a third),... Read more ...
911 humbled by Caparo? The truth 24 November 2007 by Chris Chilton Driving an old 911 back to back with a Caparo T1 throws Chris Chilton's perspective I haven’t managed many long trips in my 'new' old 911, so when I had to get over to Bruntingthorpe airfield to drive... Read more ...
Muscle in mind. Muscle cars and Chris Chilton 20 August 2007 by Chris Chilton Happiness is watching a load of old 60s and 70s muscle cars pounding the quarter mile You either get muscle cars or you don't. Dynamically they're mostly rubbish, but what you lose in steering feel,... Read more ...
Why we should all take the driving test again 24 May 2007 by Chris Chilton Chris Chilton argues for regular retesting of all drivers Anyone see Jo Brand campaigning to get old drivers off the road on telly the other night? She reckoned British drivers over 70 should be... Read more ...
Arguing over Ferraris: which is really best? 30 April 2007 by Chris Chilton Behind the scenes of CAR Magazine's June 2007 cover story How could six ever be enough? We asked ourselves the same question and quarrelled like school kids over the finalists. Where was the Boxer,... Read more ...
Why Honda’s F1 livery is wrong 01 March 2007 by Chris Chilton Honda's eco-livery is a PR smokescreen So Honda's bold new F1 livery (which covers the car in a map of the world, for those who haven't seen it) is supposed to raise awareness of global warming. How... Read more ...
Hankering after a 911: a dangerous admission by Chris Chilton 06 February 2007 by Chris Chilton Have cash, will buy. But 911-hunting is proving more difficult than we thought... Patience, the saying goes, is a virtue. Sadly it’s not one of mine. There is a pile of cash in my pocket and it’s... Read more ...