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Which is Porsche's best-selling car? The cheapest maybe? An affordable Boxster or Cayman, say? Perhaps the bedrock of its range, the evergreen – and now 29mpg – 911? Nope, it's the Cayenne, Porsche's...

Credit is being crunched, buyers are deserting dealerships in droves and the motor industry appears to be in turmoil. These are dark days in the car market – yet I can’t help feeling you can’t beat a...

So Porsche has extended its controlling stake in Volkswagen. Today Stuttgart confirmed it now holds 35.14 percent of the voting rights in the huge sprawling Volkswagen group – up from 31 percent. The...

Where should CAR go next? We know most of the roads round Europe like the back of our hands, we’ve crossed the Pond at least a dozen times this year and Africa is almost old hat now. Heading east is...

My 21-month-old son already has an unhealthy obsession with all things four-wheeled: tractors and cars, lorries and trolleys. You name it, he loves it. Pushing them around the floor. Up table legs.

I was interested to hear last night that British prime minister Gordon Brown will make a surprise appearance today to open the London motor show 2008. It's supposed to be top-secret, but my well...

A French journalist from Auto Plus magazine has been arrested for possessing photos of the next-generation Renault Scenic. It raises fears for us writers beavering away trying to spill the beans on...

Did you see the live Honda TV ad last night? At 8.10pm on 29 May, Honda streamed a three-minute film of 19 skydivers jumping out of a plane and – with a bout of exceptionally nifty formation flying –...

Is the new Ferrari California a worthy successor to the original of the 1950s and ’60s? The 250 California is one of the most sought-after models ever to wear the Prancing Horse badge, especially in...

Tim Pollard's just moved house. And carted half a tonne of car magazines in the process Four hundred and something kilogrammes. That's half a Lotus Elise, or my life's collection of car magazines. I...

Car makers are leading us on a merry dance with burgeoning eco brands, says Tim Pollard Don't know about you, but I'm bamboozled by the manufacturers' attempts to save the planet. Watching their...

Tim Pollard is fed up with wildly excessive speedo readings. Here's why It was a few miles into my drive of Audi's slinky new A5 3.0 TDI when I noticed it. The oh-so-cool, Germanically precise...

US car makers now control less than half the domestic market. Tim Pollard isn't surprised While Britain was deluged with the wettest July on record, the American car industry was inundated with...

Tim Pollard mulls over the speculation surrounding the sale of Jaguar and Land Rover These are exciting times in the car industry. The building blocks of the mega-mergers of the late twentieth and...

Bugatti is about to increase Veyron production. Tim Pollard asks, why bother? So Bugatti is stepping up Veyron production from 60 cars built in its first year to around 75 annually. 'We want to...

The Concept CS is said to herald BMW's new design direction. Tim Pollard ponders the new look 'Beauty is back!', says the front cover of the new, July 2007 issue of CAR Magazine. We had quite a few...

Who exactly would pay £4.7 million for a Ferrari, even a really nice 330 Testa Rossa, asks Tim Pollard So a Le Mans-winning 1962 Ferrari 330 TRI/LM Testa Rossa Spyder has just sold for a record £4.7...

Speccing a new car has become more complicated than ever, reckons Tim Pollard As the lucky recipient of CAR's forthcoming long-term Cooper S, I've been spending a lot of time with my snout buried in...

Every manufacturer crows about plans for growth. But they can't all be right, can they? So Toyota has overtaken General Motors as the world's biggest car maker. In the first quarter of 2007, the...

Tim Pollard on why the race for more ratios isn't helping gearbox progress

City dwellers don't appreciate decent headlamps, argues Tim Pollard So, the UK has switched to British Summer Time - and at a stroke my journey home has been plunged from gloomy dark to spring-like...

Launch of first official Hummer dealer overshadowed by tax hikes in Budget Could Hummer have picked a worse week to launch its first UK dealer? The press release landed on our desks the same morning...

The phrase on everyone’s lips at Geneva Geneva 2007 was the show that will be remembered for two letters and a number, the invisible gas that we all breathe out and remember from test-tube experiments...

The cars that matter at the Geneva Motor Show The doors open at the annual Swiss motor show on Tuesday morning and the new BMW M3 is my tip to pick up the Best In Show gong. Okay, so it'll be a...

Our man thinks white cars are in Glancing through the new Merc C-class first pictures, I came across this gleaming white Sport model. Am I alone in thinking that it looks pretty damn good in white?...