If you love your car – and if you’re reading this, you probably do – then it stands to reason you want it to be clean. That, however, isn’t always an easy or cheap task. Of course, professional valeters do a brilliant job, but they can be expensive to use…

The market for electric hot hatches is burgeoning, with long-time stalwarts of the genre like Volkswagen, Peugeot, Renault (through the Alpine brand) and Vauxhall all rolling out sporty plug-in hatches. This is, undoubtedly, a good thing: whether we like it or not, most regulations around the world still point to…

Not too long ago, Car Throttle was on the tarmac at a windy RAF base in Lincolnshire to find out about the JCB Hydromax, a car built with the express purpose of setting a new hydrogen-fuelled land speed record.Fast forward a couple of months, and that very same car has…

Gran Turismo doesn’t just give players a huge garage to choose from. It also exposes millions to cars that are either obscure outside of Japan, difficult to buy in Europe or simply better known in motorsport than on the road.Over the years, the games have helped push many cars to…

The MINI John Cooper Works is already one of the most distinctive hot hatches on sale, but the BMW-owned brand has now given buyers the chance to make it stand out even more with a new range of motorsport-inspired accessories.Available for the petrol-powered three-door JCW, the new parts include an…

Some cars don’t really do anything wrong. They can be fast, interesting, good-looking and genuinely brilliant to drive – yet still end up spending their lives being compared with something else. Usually, that “something else” happens to wear the same badge.That’s what happened to the cars below. Whether they were…