We tested 21 cars on our long-term fleet this year. Which ones pulled on our heartstrings? Each year a string of cars we can briefly call 'our own' arrive at Autocar towers, ready to be tested over a set of months and subjected to the rigour of a journalist's everyday life. In

Dennis is knighted for services to industry and charity while Horner and Duke of Richmond are now Commander of the Order of the British Empire Former McLaren Formula 1 boss Ron Dennis has been knighted in King Charles III’s latest New Years Honours list. The mastermind behind multiple titles has been given

Virtuoso performances and one-driver domination were running themes in the world of motor racing this year Another year of motorsport has flown by, and 2023 was as action-packed as ever.  From Brazil to Brands Hatch, challengers in Formula 1, the World Rally Championship and the British Touring Car Championship fought to

Driving the Prodrive P25 at fewer than nine tenths is pointless, reckons Illya Verpraet The Prodrive P25 shouldn’t really appeal to me. As a reminder, it’s a reinterpretation of a 1997 WRC Subaru Impreza, but with 2023 components, technology and know-how. Crucially, it doesn’t require an engineering team to run it and

Our favourite cars from China on the market now or coming to a showroom near you soon The rate at which Chinese cars are improving is unprecedented. Twenty-five years ago, China was knocking out models like the Lubao CA6410 – essentially the front end of an Austin Montego, mated with the rear

The car industry was propelled to the top of the news agenda in 2023, writes Felix Page So, 2023: the year we forgot about Covid, electric cars slipped inconspicuously into the mainstream and we could barely move for enormous piles of worthless semiconductors - a world away from the turbulence and uncertainty

Special-edition sports car proved to have surprisingly distinct character Porsche is currently hooked on the hard stuff: the rare-groove special editions every manufacturer of note seems to be purveying as though their existence depended on it. (Maybe it does?) It’s obvious why. These creations delight the engineering teams, but so too do