The Lexus LFA, which begins production this month, heralds a new chapter for the Japanese auto maker, writes Ben Oliver
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Written by Ben Oliver
Buying a car was once so easy. They fell into easily defined ‘segments’, as the car industry likes to call them. We had hatchbacks, saloons, estates and sports cars. Later, people-...
Conventional sports-car wisdom says that those buyers who really know how to drive will always buy the fixed-roof version of a new sports- or supercar, whereas those more interested in a little light...
You might have thought, given straitened economic times and near-universal concern about global warming and oil supplies that expensive, thirsty SUVs and the companies that make them would be out of...
The gorgeous Audi A5-sized Fisker Atlantic was one of the stars of the recent New York Auto Show, and the start-up American carmaker used its launch to reassure buyers and investors that the wheels...
Pictured in this magazine, this all-new Porsche 911 might not look so different to the model it replaces. But see it in the steel and the differences are clear: it’s lower, wider and longer...
You need to come to a place like this to really enjoy a BMW M5. You need long, empty roads and few police, and few places in Europe provide it but here: rural Andalucía, in Spain's gritty,...
“I had a Bugatti Veyron for a few months,” says Jenson Button. The Veyron is the world’s fastest, most expensive car. “But I wouldn’t compare it to this. It just wouldn...
Charles Morgan must be wondering why he didn’t do this years ago. The Morgan Motor Company was founded by his grandfather HFS Morgan just over a century ago and has remained in family ownership...
I’d sharpened my pencil for the Lexus RX450h hybrid SUV, ready to pop the eco-bubble of a car that makes the extraordinary twin claims of having as much power as a sports car but lower...
The arrival of a new BMW 5-series brings a sense of an automotive epoch changing. It is a reference point; along with the smaller 3-series, it is the heartland car of what is – arguably...