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Jaguar Land Rover’s cars can read your mind and be...

Once the stuff of science fiction, technology that allows a car to read a driver’s mind could be coming to a showroom near you...
Published 17 June 2015
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First pictures and details of new BMW 7-series and...

Like the Mercedes S-class, the BMW 7-series and Jaguar XJ are luxury cars designed to showcase the engineering and technological prowess of their...
Published 16 June 2015
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Car of the week: Ford GT LM GTE Pro racing car

It's a rivalry that has gone down in history: Ford against Ferrari at Le Mans. The competition between the two marques stemmed from a grudge between...
Published 15 June 2015
It used to be that only luxury models with keyless entry were targeted by tech-savvy car thieves. Now, as crooks realise how easy they are to crack, all vehicles with such systems are at risk — and thefts are rocketing

The great hatchback heist: keyless thieves are now...

It used to be that only luxury models with keyless entry were targeted by tech-savvy car thieves. Now, as crooks realise how easy they are to crack...
Published 15 June 2015
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Ford joins the race to foil the keyless car thieves

CAR companies are attempting to plug a serious security flaw in modern cars that allows thieves to steal them in a matter of seconds...
Published 15 June 2015
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Bloodhound SSC to commence runway trials in November

More than seven years after the project was announced, the Bloodhound SSC supersonic rocket car will blast off for the first time on November 17...
Published 15 June 2015
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Clarkson recorded voiceover for Top Gear episode after...

You're fired. . . er, hang on, could you just finish what you were working on? Weeks after being unceremoniously dropped by the BBC...
Published 14 June 2015
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Steve McQueen's Porsche 911 Turbo for sale in $1m auction

The last sports car owned by Steve McQueen will go under the hammer later this summer, and experts predict it will smash the $1m mark
Published 11 June 2015
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It's called Supersport for a reason: our Caterham team...

There is something slightly primeval about Caterham racing. You sit pinned by a six-point harness to an aluminium plate, with a fuel tank just inches...
Published 11 June 2015
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Hitting the gym with Mark Webber before the 2015 Le...

Mark Webber has the hollowed cheekbones of the professionally fit. He looks more like an athlete than any other racing driver I’ve met, including...
Published 11 June 2015
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Test your knowledge: Caterham Cars has left Caterham;...

When Colin Chapman decided that he wanted to take his Lotus sports car company upmarket and take on Ferrari and Porsche ...
Published 10 June 2015
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Trailer for new Top Gear episode featuring "missing"...

A trailer for the "missing" Top Gear footage from series 22, featuring Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, has been released by the BBC
Published 09 June 2015