Cars

Porsche’s been celebrating this year. It’s the brand’s 70th birthday, and this week’s Want is from another big year. We’re travelling back half a century, to a track-proven sports racer from 1968.

Ford has today revealed its most important global car, the fourth-generation Focus.

After three Le Mans victories and six World Championship titles, the Porsche 919 retired from competitive racing last year. Now it’s doing a victory lap — or more appropriately, laps, as it travels the globe in 2018. The goal? Outright lap records at some of the world’s greatest circuits.

F1 returns this weekend for the Bahrain Grand Prix, the second race of the season. The events of Australia have already caused a stir, as both Haas and Mercedes have come under fire. Discussions around the inaugural race continue, albeit now the focus is on overtaking.

Cars offer all sorts of personal expression for their owners. Most of the time they don’t pose a problem either, as long as you’re sensible. However, a Maine teenager is now in hot water for doing what he says is free speech.

If there’s one brand that drives a wedge between petrolheads the world over, it’s Alfa Romeo. Not because a surprising number of people who think they like cars can’t spell it, but because of a symbolic trope. Some say you can’t really be a petrolhead until you’ve owned one, others think that’s bunk.

Since 2002 the Top Gear Test Track, at Dunsfold in Surrey, stood among the ranks of tracks like the Nürburgring for benchmark lap times. Now that status is in jeopardy, and Top Gear may also soon find itself homeless.

One of the most requested cars on GTPlanet for a little over four years was the BMW M3 (E30). With the arrival of v1.15 of GT Sport, the community rejoiced at finally getting its hands on the elusive car. Now for this week’s Want, we take a look at the real thing.

April Fools’ Day is a special time of year where giant global car manufacturers get a chance to show their human side.

Only a week after the inaugural race of the 2018 F1 season, controversial topics are in full swing. Following the first race of 2018, we learned Haas’ relationship with Ferrari is under fire. Now it appears another team is in the spotlight: Mercedes.

We’re quickly coming up on the three year anniversary of Dieselgate. During that time thousands of owners have ditched their vehicles in various buyback programs. So this makes us wonder, just where do all those cars end up?

When an autonomous car commits a traffic violation who’s at fault? This is the debate between General Motors’ self-driving division, Cruise, and the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD).

If you’ve always liked Jaguar’s F-Pace, but held back because it’s not quite fast enough, we’ve got some good news.

This past weekend saw the return of Formula 1 for the 2018 season. The season-opening race in Australia kicked things off to the usual fare, down to the almost identical results. While the race itself proved formulaic (no pun intended), one team stood out: Haas.

Sim racing games let us experience cars we only dream about. Now, Nvidia thinks it might have a way to push that envelope. Debuting new technology at its Graphics Technology Conference (GTC) the company now has a way to control a real-world car in a digital environment.

Italian cars are cool. They push forward what’s possible with design and typically come with a glorious engine note. While some are terrible and others unreliable, they still hold a special place in the hearts of gearheads. For this week’s Want, we take a look at the funky and rare Alfa Romeo SZ.

Safety cars are an amazing bit of kit. They’re sleek, powerful and fast enough to keep the race cars behind them to negotiate obstacles safely.

F1 and Netflix have partnered to develop a documentary based on the 2018 season, set to air in early 2019.

The opening race of the 2018 season was a spectacle, kicking things off on the right foot. Much like yesterday’s qualifying session, the race results took a familiar turn. Lewis Hamilton may have secured pole for today’s race but it was Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel that took the victory, mirroring last year’s result.

The inaugural race weekend of the 2018 Formula One season is here. Fans tuning into the first qualifying session of the year will discover the pecking order continues unabated. That is to say, all the familiar faces remain in their usual positions.