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Working Class Hero: RS 2600

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"photography: James Lipman If you're died in the wool Capri perv you won't need to be told the following. For you the burly MK1 homologation special will occupy that special place in your psyche representative of all things Ford that "

Modern Classic: The Golf GTi

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"Images: VW_Press It is easy to forget just how this little car changed the car world. When it emerged most stuff was rear wheel drive and badly made with overhangs. I suppose the GTi really has significance for me "

Volkswagen W: Imagining the Future

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"1XLR1 Squint a little bit and that front end looks like the Scirocco. But it's not. The apogee of VW's new generation of aspiration toward hyper-efficiency, the new Volkswagen XL1 Super Efficient Vehicle (SEV) was unveiled at the Qatar Motor "

The Contemporary Scirocco

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"Hipstamatics by Paul O'Connor “Sick. It looks like a missile!” So emoted my youngest child when the Scirocco pulled up for the first time outside our house. I was, I admit, a little surprised. Because it seems to me that "

VW_ Big Up the Buggy Up!

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"Of all the manifestations of VW audacity, the Buggy represents something particularly deep-lying and playful in the minds of VW enthusiasts. They originate from the simple workability of the Beetle platform and a creative impulse that is common to folk "

Nils Concept

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"NILS, is a single-seat electric concept vehicle that offered a glimpse of a new form of minimalist mobility which was unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show this year. The concept features an aluminium space frame, wing doors and free-standing wheels – "

Driven: Alfa 8C Spider

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"This car is possibly the most Italian thing on the planet; even more Italian than smiling indulgently as your suspiciously black-haired elderly Prime Minister appoints former topless models to the cabinet or attempts to bed an eighteen-year old. So it "

Alfa’s 4C Concept

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"When Alfa unveiled the 4C at the Geneva show early in 2011, there was a completely polarised reaction. Even the hardcore Alfisti weren’t unanimously supportive of the arrival of the little competitor to the Porsche Cayman. Their appetite for a "

Alfa’s New Giulietta

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"hipstamatics by Paul O'Connor When the first Giulietta was launched to the public in 1954 it was the first truly mass-market Alfa Romeo. It was pretty but practical, stylish but reliable, functional yet passionately conceived. And it’s these core values, "

Underground Alfas

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"Alfetta 158/159 These derivatives dominated the first two years of the F1 world championship, winning between 1947 and 1951, an incredible 47 of the 54 grand prix it entered. This car was thus quintessence of Enzo Ferrari’s dictum that the most beautiful car is "

Reasons to Be Cheerful

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"  Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT Wires have reported that the 2012 version of the top-of-the-range Jeep is set to feature a 6.4 litre Hemi V8, 500 HP and an eight-speed gearbox. The current version is amazingly refined for an American SUV - so "

Harley Davidson Soars

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"  Rain. Lots of rain. At night. Soaked through, 50-odd miles from my destination and on a lonely road in the middle of bleak West Country moorland. My headlamp was pointing anywhere but at the road, mainly because it was "

Corvette Grand Sport Driven

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"Pics Dom Romney/Influx //The Location// There’s a strange sort of irony in picking up the latest Corvette Grand Sport from the centre of the Industrial revolution’s Eden. Venerable dealer Bauer Millet – who specialise in all sorts of "