Cars

  • McLaren’s formula clone McLaren’s formula clone

    McLaren’s formula clone

    Cut price it may be, but buyers of the MP4 12C, Woking’s third ever supercar, will have lots of F1 crossover to brag about come 2011.

  • Scrambling in the mud! Scrambling in the mud!

    Scrambling in the mud!

    Ok, so there are two wheels instead of four. But does that make scrambling any less of a joyous ride? Our don's his leather to find out.

  • Five ugliest off-roaders sold in the UK Five ugliest off-roaders sold in the UK

    Five ugliest off-roaders sold in the UK

    The recipe for an off-roader is pretty easy. Make it look rough-tough and market it to men with either real or imagined stuff to do away from the tarmac. Here’s what not to do.

  • Rally GB Rally GB

    Rally GB

    Poor Mikko Hirvonen saw his championship hopes popped by a dodgy bonnet pin on the second-to-last stage in Wales, obscuring his view and clearing the way for Sebastien Loeb to take the win and a sixth consecutive title.

  • Dave's Motoring Quizzes! Dave's Motoring Quizzes!

    Dave's Motoring Quizzes!

    Does oil run through your veins instead of blood? Do you know your Ascari from your Aston or your Bugatti from your Brabus? Then our quizzes are for you.

Top Gear

Top Gear

Top Gear was once the programme your dad would force everyone to watch - his quiet revenge for having to sit through your mum's frequent doses of Corrie or EastEnders

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Fifth Gear

Fifth Gear

Gears are good, aren't they? Like Top Gear, for instance. That's a really good Gear. But now there's a new one we're shifting into on Dave.

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Top Gear Competition

Top Gear Competition

How much do you love Top Gear? So much that you would love to visit the Top Gear exhibition? We'll we've got just the competition for you.

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Viral Videos

Viral Videos

We have scoured the web for hilarious motoring themed virals. You can enjoy the films we found right here.

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Car Porn!

  • Some affable images of Captain Slow from Top Gear - aka the wonderful James May.
    Jeremy Clarkson Jeremy Clarkson
  • Second to Clarkson in the cutting wit department, but he did once top a poll of 'weird celebrity crushes', so check out these pretty pictures.
    Richard Hammond Richard Hammond
  • Love him or loathe him, he knows his Alfa Romeo from his Elantra - have a cruise around our gallery.
    Jeremy Clarkson Jeremy Clarkson
  • Check out our stunning images from the World Rally Championship.
    World Rally World Rally
  • Ok so they aren't going to win any ecology prizes, but we'd happily trade our own children for one of these beauties!
    4 X 4 4 X 4
  • When is a saloon, not a saloon? When it's one of these futuristic dream machines.
    Saloons Saloons
  • Richard Hammond has always claimed small is beautiful. With these new cars we'd have to agree.
    Superminis Superminis
  • Frankfurt, the show where the motoring industry show off the cars we will never be able to afford! Gnash! Gansh!
    Frankfurt Motorshow Frankfurt Motorshow
  • Car designers have the best bloody job in the world. Check out what they've come up with now!
    Supercars Supercars
  • Motor mayhem, exploding caravans, ritual Hammond humiliation - enjoy our gallery dedicated to everyone's favourite car programme.
    Top Gear Top Gear

Pub trivia

  • The "father of the car" was Karl Friedrich Benz, and the first car was the Benz Patent Motorwagen, built in 1885. And it was a three-wheeler, so don't scoff at Reliant Robin drivers – they're keeping it real.

  • Beginning with Mary Anderson, who invented the first windscreen wiper in 1903, women have played a striking role in the evolution of the car. In fact, women inventors were responsible for developing the sparkplug, the clutch and the carburettor.

  • The Volkswagen Beetle has the dubious distinction of being the most popular car ever created by an evil dictator. Adolf Hitler personally sketched the first Beetle designs in the early 30s.

  • The fastest car in the world has a highest recorded speed of 257mph and can go from 0 to 60 in 2.78 seconds. Unfortunately, it's called the Ultimate Aero. But it could have been worse. It could have been called the Ultimate Twix.

  • The world's first petrolheads didn't get behind the wheel – they toggled the tiller. That was the name of the giant sort-of joystick that was used to "steer" first cars around. The steering wheel was introduced in 1899, and within a decade the tillers were history.

  • The most important car ever made was the Model T Ford. Popularly, the credit goes to Henry Ford, although it was a friend of Ford's, Childe Harold Wills, who oversaw the design of the car and even came up with the squiggly Ford logo. He and Ford later fell out and Wills set up his own car company. Which flopped.

All pub trivia

Top Gear Vs Fifth Gear

Top Gear Vs Fifth Gear

They're British TV's two outstanding car shows - but which is the greatest? Clarkson and the gang or Tiff and his team?

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World Rally

World Rally

For motor sport thrills and spills you can't beat the World Rally Championship. There's mud, crashes, testing terrains and the whole thing is a petrol head's dream.

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Crash

Crash

There's a curious pleasure to be derived from watching people crash cars.

Licence to Le Mans

Licence to Le Mans

Can race cars be fast and green? That's the question posed by License To Le Mans, a documentary series that follows Lord Drayson and Tiff Needell when they competed in the 2008 American Le Mans Series.