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When someone says ‘boxer engine’ to the typical car enthusiast, one of three images will come to their mind, depending on where their automotive allegiances lie: either a chuntering air-cooled Volkswagen, a screaming Porsche, or a rumbly turbocharged Subaru.These are the three manufacturers that have made the greatest success out…
This is the Kia EV2, and if you’re at all familiar with Kia’s naming strategy for its dedicated electric…
Picture the scene: you’ve woken up to a frost-covered winter scene and biting, sub-zero temperatures, but you’ve still got…
Toyota has revealed yet another limited-run GR Yaris, this one wearing the slightly self-indulgent but undeniably intriguing name, GR…
Once upon a time, there was a British race car builder called Lola, and enormously successful it was too.…
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We love a big engine as much as the next car enthusiast – nothing quite excites us like the howl of a V12 or the rumble of a V8. But that doesn’t mean a huge capacity and many cylinders are the be all and end all of driving fun.Quite the…
A well-executed hot hatchback is one of life’s great joys, but that makes it all the more disappointing when a company gets them wrong. It happens every now and then, though, and for every hot hatch that cements itself as a legend in the eyes of the press and the…
The Volkswagen Group was no stranger to unusual engines in the 1990s and 2000s, a time when, under the stewardship of chairman Ferdinand Piëch, there seemed to be no limit to the company’s ambitions and how much it was willing to spend to achieve them.It had its W-layout motors, ranging…
BMW recently broke the automotive corner of the internet with news that it’s made a previous April Fools’ joke real and built a racing version of the brilliant M3 Touring. This isn’t just some static show pony, either – it’s going racing, and at one of the most demanding events around,…
Cramming the biggest possible engine into the smallest possible car is not a new idea. It dates back to the earliest days of hot rodding, when pioneering custom car builders would fit modified Model T Fords with the company’s later ‘flathead’ V8 in order to make them go as quickly…
JDM is a term that gets thrown around pretty liberally in the modern car landscape, often just in reference to any enthusiast-friendly car from a Japanese brand. But it’s always worth remembering what it actually stands for – Japanese domestic market.It’s no secret that the JDM in its most literal…