Autocar

Autocar is the car nut’s weekly fix, delivering you a unique mix of the latest news, opinion, features, first drives of new cars and in-depth road tests – all complemented by the best photography in the business. No other magazine covers the subject you love with such enthusiasm, insight and quality every week of the year. Autocar stands for the highest quality in car journalism – and is rewarded with access to the best new cars and the biggest news stories before any of the opposition which we share with you, our readers, every week.

GREAT BRITISH SPORTS CAR IS ALIVE AND WELLS

Sportier new Mercedes SL brings back soft-top • Four-wheel drive and steering standard for AMG-developed roadster

Volkswagen adds coupé-SUV to ID EV family

Update for Audi A8

CONFIDENTIAL

Ora sets sights on UK EV sales • Chinese brand’s Renault Zoe-rivalling Cat supermini offers up to 261 miles of range

CAN THE CAT CUT IT HERE?

New ZO6 gets 670bhp

New Mini hatch leads big push • Next-gen three-door to take the firm into a new era of superminis, SUVs and an MPV

Countryman grows into new role

Toyota bZ4X keeps concept car looks

THE LATEST BRAINWAVE FROM FORD: MIND CONTROL

Gaming tech aiding car industry • ‘Engine’ software gives engineers, designers and marketeers benefits of virtual reality

CASE STUDY: FERR ARI AND FORTNITE

INSIDE INFORMATION

MY WEEK IN CARS

WELLS VERTIGE • All-new, small-volume, British-built sports coupé takes to the road in near-production-ready form

OWNERSHIP COSTS CONTROLLED

McLAREN 720S GT3X • McLaren upgrades its GT3 race car to let loose an unhinged track-day weapon

ROLLS-ROYCE GHOST BLACK BADGE • Luxury limousine gets popular styling upgrade and power-boost treatment

BMW M3 COMPETITION xDRIVE • New-generation super-saloon gains the option of an additional driven axle

Ferrari SF90 Stradale • Ferrari’s electrified era starts with a 987bhp plug-in supercar of epic capabilities

Range at a glance

Weights and measures

Multimedia system

Track notes

Data log

Our new performance benchmark but not a track-handling great

ROAD TEST RIVALS • Verdicts on every new car, p81

CHRISTMAS EARLY BIRD OFFER

AUTOCAR 125 YEARS 6197 ISSUES 1,100,000 PAGES YOURS TO ACCESS • How the historic Autocar archive was made digital

FROM PRINT TO PIXELS • Autocar’s entire collection of back issues has been painstakingly digitised into a searchable library that documents the whole history of the motor car. Matt Prior finds out how it was done

ON THIS WEEK IN…

For the record: how Autocar made its mark • Since its launch, Autocar has documented key world events through the prism of the automotive industry. Kris Culmer revisits 126 years of publication

BACK IN MY DAY • With more than 125 years of history available through the Autocar archive, where does one start? Simple: where you started. We dig out the issues from the weeks we were born and delve into a handy motoring time capsule

DAWN OF A NEW AGE • In 1896, The Autocar magazine celebrated the lifting of an onerous 4mph speed limit by organising the first London to Brighton run. Steve Cropley tells the tale

THE LONDON TO BRIGHTON RUN THROUGH THE YEARS

THE AUTOCAR • A JOURNAL PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE MECHANICALLY PROPELLED ROAD CARRIAGE.

SUTTON: IT’S JUST THE START • BTCC king aims for all the records. We wonder who can stop him

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