The Lotus Emira will be the final petrol-powered machine before a shift to electric cars. Andrew Frankel asks whether it will appeal to the audience Lotus hopes it can

It has taken a while, but Mercedes-AMG has committed to start deliveries of its Project One hypercar this year. Or just ‘One’. Officially the concept was the ‘Project One’, the…

The name. I don’t like the name. Moderna. It sounds like someone trying to say the name of an Italian city in a silly accent. And a vaccine. Think about…

Sometimes a car company launches a new car whose significance goes far beyond its price and position in the range. In effect it resets the company. Volkswagen did this last…

I have never known it happen before without the company concerned going to the wall, but on Monday Lotus announced it would, during the course of this year, cease production…

There is no doubt about it that, for good or ill, 2021 will be year in which electrification stopped being a subject more talked about than acted upon and became…

To be honest I doubt it was ever to have been a ‘vintage year’. When in a few decades someone writes about the transformation in the car industry that took…

We should be grateful for the last 1000km race ever to be held for prototype sports cars at the old Nürburgring in 1983 because it was also the only one…

One of motor racing's all-time legendary figures, Vic Elford performed at the top level behind the wheel of pretty much everything

So now we know: in nine years time the last car powered solely by petrol or diesel will have been sold in the UK. Make that 14 years for all…

If you’ve not seen it already, Bugatti has announced a new car. Called the Bugatti Bolide, it makes all its products launched since the 986bhp Veyron in 2005 look somewhat…

Sixty two years ago today, Tony Vandervell’s dream of beating Ferrari at the top level, a dream he had nurtured for most of the 1950s, finally came true. This was…