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Every month CAR interviews the stars of motorsport, demystifies the latest in-car technology and shares our writers’ passion for car culture and car design. Discover the world’s newest and most exciting cars: join us to drive everything from supercars and hot hatches to family cars.

Welcome

Insider • The new e-C3 aims to lure buyers into the electric future with the classic Citroën combination of comfort and an irresistibly low price.

‘This looks like an SUV, so where does it leave the Aircross?’

REGULAR BOUTS OF GENIUS

PEUGEOT PLOTS A POSHROADER • The lion’s flagship SUV returns to fight Volvo and carve its own path.

HURRY UP AND WAIT

‘WE’RE DOING OUR BIT FOR BRITAIN’ • Vauxhall’s boss is spearheading a new initiative to get people into EVs.

Six questions only we would ask

GETTING GREENER, ONE PIECE AT A TIME • Renault is aiming to be transparent about the sustainability of the new Scenic and the production processes behind it.

E -FUELS IN RACING

GAMING GETS REAL: BMW’S FUTURE HUD • As BMW develops next-gen head-up displays, we experience its mixed-reality headset.

All’s vuel that ends vuel • Heavy hybrid gear bolted on a supercar? Sounds wrong. And yet it works so, so well

Monopoly banker

Old dog, new tricks

Opinion

Car

‘Hats off to a billionaire happy to drive a battered old Volvo. So much cooler than a new luxury car’

‘People talk to their cars like a pet dog or a cart horse, and the car talks back, with noise and vibration’

IT’S A DEFENDER, JIM… • …but not as we know it. Is the Grenadier, Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s new old Defender, the best 4x4 by far? Land Rover and Ford beg to differ

911 AT 60 • The innovations, the victories, the setbacks and the flashes of genius that make the 911 the greatest sports car of all time

GHOST IN THE SHELL • The Porsche 901 and 2023 S/T bookend the 911’s first 60 years. But what makes the bloodline so special, and is there any of the original’s DNA in the new car?

FROM NEAR-DEATH TO IMMORTALITY • We all know the 911 is much more than a car. But when exactly did its moment of transcendence come?

AFTER THE RACE, THE ROOF • Like the race, the Targa is a roof like no other

IN THE BEGINNING • Always brilliant and idiosyncratic, but 60 years ago nobody could have guessed at the glories to come

GENERATION GAME • It nearly all went wrong in 1970, but the unique Porsche/Piëch chemistry prevailed

HOW THE TURBOS TOOK OVER • From niche racer to almost every model, a pot ted history of boost.

THE SECOND COMING • When the going gets tough, the 911 goes for broke with the arrival of the wild and wayward Turbo

TO STAY THE SAME, THINGS MUST CHANGE • 40 years ago design ceased to be something you did and became something you could sell. The 911 rode that wave

RULE BRITANNIA • That the 911 is synonymous with race and rally glor y is largely the work of Vic Elford

PUT THE ENGINE WHERE?! • At Porsche nothing’s off-limits when it comes to winning – even a mid- engined 911

OLD MEETS NEW • The one every Singer wannabe desires, the 964 made progress via some brilliant compromises

LAST GASP • The 993 was the final car to use air- cooled engines. To purists, no 911 since has been able to match it

911 DIALS 986 FOR EMERGENCY • Iconic status alone doesn’t pay the bills. Cue a Boxster-led reboot

TOYOTA TO THE RESCUE • Just-in-time production transformed Porsche

THE LIFE SAVER • The purists hated water- cooling. But then the world woke up to how well the 996 drove

HITTING THE STRATOSPHERE • The feeding frenzy when limited-run 911s are announced is like nothing else

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