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The Nearn family sold Caterham Cars for a rumoured £4-5million. The shock announcement was made more intriguing by the news that the purchaser was Ans…

This is the disturbingly ugly seven-seat Subaru SUV, aimed at the BMW X5 and Range Rover Sport. It is the first Subaru to be saddled with the new fac…

Think hybrid and you think of the bland Toyota Prius, but Detroit saw an outbreak of hybrid concepts, with Porsche and Mercedes coming to the party to…

Gerhard Richter, head of BMW M Development, doesn't pull his punches. I ask him what the M Division's newest and fastest-ever road car, the M6, would …

Details have leaked out about BMW's plans for more powerful versions of the 3-series. To fill the gap before the V8-powered M3 arrives in 2007, two hi…

Even though the curtain officially came down on the R34 Nissan Skyline GT-R in August 2002, Godzilla is still very much alive and well in Tokyo, where…

Ford's two-seat, 6.4-litre V10, 605bhp, aluminium-bodied Shelby GR-1 concept is inching towards production and could replace the Ford GT when that car…

Richard Meaden brings us the full development of the Aston Martin V8 Vantage, Jethro Bovingdon pitches the Zonda Roadster against Lamborghini's Murci…

This is the face of Jaguar's new XK8 coupe. It may have been billed as a concept car when the wraps came off at Detroit, but the ALC (Advanced Lightwe…

Behind the scenes, intensive work is going on to give the XJ a more modern look, in line with the Concept Eight, seen at the 2004 New York Show. The r…

Chevrolet used the Detroit show to give more details of the forthcoming 500bhp Z06 Corvette. Don't let its similarity to the standard 'Vette fool you …

Toyota has been promising a Supra replacement for some time and, finally, this is it. The Lexus badging on the LF-A concept is confusing, as the car w…

After a year of evoactive trackdays and a nerve-racking final selection process, Lancashire-based Richard McCann achieved a lifetime ambition by becom…

BMW and PSA have announced details of a new generation, joint-venture, high-tech petrol engine range with some intriguing features, to enter productio…

Bentley chose Los Angeles for the unveiling of the Arnage Drophead Coupe. It was billed as a 'concept' but even Bentley is saying it will go into prod…

Chevrolet has revealed an even faster, more powerful version of its storming Corvette C6 at the Detroit Motor Show. The new Z06 gets a 7-litre dry-sum…

Manufacturers are responding to the massive increase in sales of diesel-engined cars across Europe by planning diesel versions of some increasingly un…