Car UK May 2019

(Jacob Rumans) #1
The big reads
64 BMW 3-series versus all comers
We know it’s good – but how good? BMW’s
new 320d squares up to C-Class Merc, A4,
Giulia, X2, E-Pace, Peugeot 508 and Lexus ES

82 Coffee with CAR:
Goodwood’s Duke of Richmond
He’s the aristocrat behind some of the world’s
best-loved motorsport festivals. We’re CAR.
Our place is Peterborough, so we went to his

90 Giant test: Porsche 911 Carrera S
vs Audi R8 vs McLaren 570S
Latest 911 cross-examined by its closest rivals
102 Inside Koenigsegg
We go behind the scenes as Sweden’s
supercar manufacturer readies a very
special newcomer
110 The shortlist: how the hell do you
follow a Ferrari F40?
Maybe a Pista? Perhaps a Porsche 911 GT3 RS?
Or how about a McLaren 720S, with a Track
Pack for good measure?
118 Dick Seaman and the legend
of the SIlver Arrows
In 125 years of Mercedes motorsport, no story
resonates down the decades quite like the tale
of the British gent driving for the Nazi-backed
factory team

Our cars^
124 You drive our cars: BMW 8-series
Readers try the editor’s M850i
140 One year on: VW Golf GTE
Living with the hybrid hatchback

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Insider


10 The hardcore new Ferrari – and what’s next
13 Georg Kacher’s hot news bulletin


14 Meet the R8’s all-electric sequel


16 Why – and how – Ford must reinvent itself


18 CAR’s Formula 1 rich list
20 The CAR Inquisition: DS’s sales honcho


22 Watches: chronographs worthy of a winner


Te ch


24 The fresh thinking in Fiat’s BEV concept


26 CAR explains Morgan’s shock modernisation


28 Meeting of minds Hybrid supercars debated


30 Does it work? Precision-reversing BMWs


162 Retro tech The slow death of the gearlever


F i rst d r ive s


32 The 300-mile test BMW X


42 Porsche 911 Convertible


46 BMW 1-series prototype


50 Audi SQ


52 Porsche Cayman T, BMW 7-series, BMW
8-series Convertible, Jaguar XF Sportbrake


Opinion^


55 Your letters, including the magnificence of
BMW’s i3 and why talking about the
Aventador’s infotainment is missing the point


60 Gavin Green: consumer electronics vs the car


62 Mark Walton meets the latest Ariel Atom


143 The Good, the Bad & the Ugly


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