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When Autocar helped design the Dutch GP

How a multi-talented former staffer helped create this weekend's Formula 1 circuit

When Autocar helped design the Dutch GP
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"It has extraordinary throttle response, a wide but increasingly urgent powerband and a fabulous howl at the top end"
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Unfinished business: Revisiting the Caterham Seven

Our man wanted to treat himself to a Caterham – and it had to be like the one he destroyed as a blithe 20-year-old

Unfinished business: Revisiting the Caterham Seven
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Mercedes AMG pot is one of the iconic ICEs
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A life well lived: Tracing 120 years of the combustion engine

Hard though it is to fathom, the internal combustion engine could soon be a thing of the past. We eulogise 120 years of engineering progress

A life well lived: Tracing 120 years of the combustion engine
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"Ask what I’d buy with my own money and I’d say an Alpine A110"
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The great weight debate: why are cars becoming heavier?

Keen drivers covet sports cars, but crossovers are the choice of many. Why?

The great weight debate: why are cars becoming heavier?
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GT3's company: Which generation of hardcore Porsche 911 is best?

Has Porsche’s 911 GT3 improved with each passing generation or become sanitised by modern demands and nannying tech?

GT3's company: Which generation of hardcore Porsche 911 is best?
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"Sitting behind the enormous wheel, it feels more like a vintage biplane than a car"
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Blast in the past: reborn Bentley Blower Continuation driven

Bentley’s plans to recreate a limited run of its famed 4½-litre Blower are well under way, with the first prototype, Car Zero, now complete. We drive it

Blast in the past: reborn Bentley Blower Continuation driven
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Be very careful about seat selection. If you want the slim racing buckets, make sure you fit them first. Not everyone does…
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Series finale: Saying goodbye to the McLaren 570S

McLaren’s Sports Series is taking a bow, and with it goes one of Woking’s finest creations. We takes the 570S for a final drive and wonder how the all-new Artura might take its place

Series finale: Saying goodbye to the McLaren 570S
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Phase 2 banished the waywardness but still focuses the mind
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Middle management: Revisiting the Renault Clio V6

If you thought Renault building a bespoke sports coupé was admirably maverick, how about it beefing up its supermini and replacing the rear seats with a V6?

Middle management: Revisiting the Renault Clio V6
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You could snatch up a 5 Turbo for just £10,350 (in 1990)
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Forgotten Genius: Remembering the Renault 5 GT Turbo

The Peugeot 205 GTi and first Volkswagen Golf GTI have been written into car folklore, so why hasn’t their Renault contemporary?

Forgotten Genius: Remembering the Renault 5 GT Turbo
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Two generations of Elises square off
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First and last: tracing the evolution of the Lotus Elise

The 1996 Elise embodied everything that made us all fall in love with Lotus. A quarter of a century later, its time is up – but not for the usual reason of declining ability

First and last: tracing the evolution of the Lotus Elise
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Just Taycan or the old classic?
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Analogue vs digital: Porsche Taycan meets manual 911

It set 13 EV endurance records, but can the Taycan match the staying power of its iconic predecessor?

Analogue vs digital: Porsche Taycan meets manual 911

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