| Teenage Kicks - Britain's Youngest Hot Rodders (Part 1) |
| Sometimes, the darkest clouds have the brightest silver linings. This story has a couple of them, and if you're of the mind-set that all teenagers today are hoodie wearing thugs who spend all day on their games console and whose main skill with their hands is Tweeting on their smart phones, you need to read this. |
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| Swing Low Sweet Chariot Muscle Car |
| I always look forward to the end of May bank holiday weekend as there are all sorts of car shows to attend. However, the one that draws me like a magnet is the Sunday bash at Brook lands Museum organised by the Mo par Muscle Association UK. Brook lands always throws up something special and this year was no exception. |
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| The 25-year Rule (Part 2) |
| The 25th anniversary of Nissan's R32 Skyline GT-R hasn't just gotten you all riled up about one of the finest sports cars to ever come from Japan, it's also lent itself to becoming the spokes car for importing just about anything else into the U.S. |
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| The 25-year Rule (Part 1) |
| The NHTSA's 25-year rule means that vehicles sold in 1989 or earlier are now fair game for importation into the U.S. If all is right with your brain, when you think of 1989 you think of Nissan's introduction of the R32 Skyline |
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| The Audi A3 Sportback E-Tron – Too Good To Be True |
| Audi’s A3 might be as abundant as air, but this new A3 Sportback e-tron is doing its bit to keep the stuff we breathe as clean as possible. Under the prominent four-ringed badge sits a plug socket, which is used to charge the battery pack under the floor. |
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| The BMW 2 Series Active Tourer – A Pretty Quiet Car On The Motorway |
| BMW’s first compact MPV, the ponderously named 2 Series Active Tourer, is also its first front-wheel drive model. That’ll upset the BMW die-hards, but for the majority of drivers it’ll matter not one jot. What will to them, and all rival manufacturers, is that the family car market just got a premium player, and it’s playing to win. |
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| The BMW 4 Series Gran Coupé – Impressive Practicality |
| After years of mainly concentrating on odd numbers, it’s the year of the eve number for BMW. Having launched its 4 Series Coupé last year, the company is now padding out the line-up with the Convertible that arrived earlier this year, and now the Gran Coupé that is a compelling mix of sportiness and added practicality. |
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| The BMW I8 – A Technical Masterpiece |
| Electric and hybrid cars designed for city use are now becoming more affordable. Unless you’re seriously wealthy, hybrid performance motoring remains the preserve of near-million pound cars from Porsche, Ferrari and McLaren. |
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| Show Report Special Americana International |
| A mericana has historically been way more than just a car show; it’s more of a lifestyle show, something reflected everywhere you look, from themed clothing stalls, onsite pin striping (ensuring you and your car look the part) to live music stages and all the foods from all over the world. |
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| Show Report Special Stars & Stripes |
| What could have been nicer – cruising to the annual Stars and Stripes weekend on a sunny July Saturday in my (just bought) ’65 Mustang; windows down and the sound of a well-sorted 289 rumbling across the fields of Cheshire. |
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| Star Project 190SL Roadster (Part 2) |
| Likewise the upper seam of the inner wheel arch is all but gone, with perhaps only 20 per cent of the metal remaining. A view forward into the engine bay shows the front panel that sits forward of the bonnet and links the two wings. |
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| Star Project 190SL Roadster (Part 1) |
| Find a classic car that behaves itself for the majority of the time, usually due to the preventative and prescriptive work of a diligent owner, and the joys can be positively addictive, as Adrian Timothy, the owner of this beautiful WL21 190SL Roadster explains when we meet near his home in South London. |
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| Still The One - The Mclaren F1 (Part 2) |
| I’d worked with Gordon at Brabham Formula 1, and when the F1 project started, he asked if I knew a designer. I volunteered. Gordon doesn’t see rules as being for him, so he’d question things. |
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| Still The One - The Mclaren F1 (Part 1) |
| In 1994 the McLaren F1 was a supercar shock of seismic proportions. Twenty years later it hasn’t lost its power to amaze. In exclusive interviews the men who created it tell their tale. |
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| The Maserati Ghibli S – The Latin Conquistador (Part 2) |
| This three-pronged model range takes Maserati into a new price territory; a Maserati hasn’t sold in the $130k-$150k area since the late nineties. The top 301kW/550Nm Ghibli S sells for $149,990, $45k less than the Quattroporte S with the same powertrain. It supposedly rattles off the 100kay dash in 5.0sec flat, and should comprise around 40 per cent of sales. |
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| Review : Lenco BTS-110 Bluetooth Speaker |
| Portable Bluetooth speakers in smaller form factors appear to be in vogue these days, with a plethora of these devices in the market now. Dutch audio brand Lenco wants a slice of the pie. |
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| Show the whole car kingdom “What’ll you do?”, Porsche (Part 5) |
| There’s also competition from the manufacturers themselves. There are more factory performance cars these days, and every carmaker is now geared up to take them further, giving owners another reason to not shop elsewhere. Want to make your 911 Turbo faster? Tick the Turbo S trim level. |
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| Football Manager 2015 |
| The Football Manager (FM) game - the long-running football management simulation franchise - lets fans play out their dreams of managing a football club. |
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| Far Cry 4 |
| The first time your character encounters Pagan Min in Far Cry 4, he murders a henchman with a golden pen right in front of you. Then, still splattered with blood, he gives you a hug. |
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| PlayStation 4 : DriveClub |
| It was to have been one of the launch games for PlayStation 4. However, it has taken nearly a year from the launch of PS4 for DriveClub to drift into gamers' hands. |
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| World Soccer: Winning Eleven 2015 |
| The World Soccer: Winning Eleven (WE) franchise used to be the gold standard of football simulation games until the Fifa series came along and usurped the crown. |
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| The Jaguar F-Type R Coupe – Wild Cat (Part 2) |
| We liked the drive in the F-Type Convertible, but the Coupe is 80 per cent stiffer and chassis rigidity is everything. The front and rear springs are a few percentage points stiffer to help deliver a more honed athlete and get the best from the steering. |
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| Review : NBA 2K15 |
| You start with a group of players from a pack of cards. But instead of buying new packs, you can now buy and sell players through auctions. The fun part of MyTeam mode is that you can have Michael Jordan and LeBron James on the same team. |
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| Review : Alien: Isolation |
| Before you embark on this terrifying journey to revisit one of the most iconic movies ever crafted, it is best to forget about the terrible Alien games that have come before. |
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| Porsche 911 Turbo charges into town |
| The 911 Turbo has traditionally been Porsche's flag bearer, primarily because it has always had more firepower (courtesy of its turbocharger), more curves and because it commands more moolah than any other 911. |
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