Features - by Ben Oliver

It's 3000 miles from Earls Court, but has New York become the new British motor show?

Noisy opening for Porsche's new London pop up store

We sit in Bafta preview of new BBC Murray doc

Revisiting a car born the same year as CAR Magazine

We spy rapper doing a Cameron - with an SUV in tow

Ben Oliver on driving the Disco in the desert

CAR's pick of the top 10 car video clips on YouTube

Ben Oliver's exhaustive tinkering on a 'Stang Boss

Our man goes all misty-eyed over trips to Continent

Ben Oliver is your tour guide around the NAIAS

It's CAR's exclusive Tube map, showing who owns who

Ben Oliver ponders the reception given to important new cars

Ben Oliver mulls over David Cameron's upgrading from a Lexus to a Jag

Up close and personal: the new Five rated in the metal

I don’t think I’ve ever seen the European Union make up its mind so quickly. On Monday, the European car makers’ association ACEA asked the EU for a €40 billion (£31bn) low-cost loan to help its...

My Paris motor show in one word? Scary. Almost all the tens of thousands of us packed into Paris Expo’s eight halls on press day depend on the car industry for our living. So it’s pretty bloody...

At the end of last week CAR spoke to some senior car industry analysts at the big investment banks. What they told us, privately, was shocking. They said that while they could once be pretty certain...

Did you go to the Goodwood Festival of Speed 2008? Are you wondering how the experience could possibly be improved upon? Here’s my tip: do whatever it takes to score a drive up the hill. If it means...

Oh Boris, you mop-headed moron. Embarrassing deputy-resignation aside, you seemed to be getting it so right; reintroducing the Routemaster bus, reconsidering the western extension to the Congestion...

Motorsport stars David Leslie and Richard Lloyd died in this week's Kent plane crash. Ben Oliver pays tribute. Each man enjoyed four decades at the heroic end of British motorsport. Leslie (pictured...

Has Delhi overtaken Detroit? Ben Oliver ponders the changing importance of global motor shows. For the second year, General Motors opened the Detroit Motor Show with its ‘Style’ event, in which...

Ben Oliver sits through Al Gore's Live Earth concerts and bemoans the gas-guzzling celebs Watch the footage of last Saturday’s Live Earth concert at Wembley and I’ll be easy to spot. Row 10, seat 264,...

Do we prefer comfort and luxury or the simple pleasures of a car with character? Asks Ben Oliver Of all the cars on sale in the UK, I don’t think you could identify two more different than the Land...

Can Lewis Hamilton win the F1 crown at his first attempt? Ben Oliver follows his fortunes Anybody else having their Sundays ruined by Lewis bloody Hamilton? Just when I’d written off Formula One as an...

Ben Oliver salutes those who take part in the Isle of Man TT racesJust like the motorcycle itself, if the Isle of Man TT races were invented today they’d be banned by tomorrow. Instead, the event is...

Today's crackdown on the most polluting cars is all smoke and mirrors, reckons Ben Oliver So Gordon Brown has doubled the top rate of car tax to £400 in 2008. How many people do you think will be...

NAC's reopening of MG's Longbridge production plant won't fool buyers, argues Ben Oliver I once heard of a man so keen to support the British car industry that he bought not one but two Rover 800s -...

To understand Ferrari, you must go to Italy, says Ben Oliver To really 'get' Ferrari, you've got to go to Italy. Viewed from anywhere else, it's too easy to see Ferrari as elitist; a maker of...

Mobile phones are one of many distractions behind the wheel, finds Ben Oliver Just did a radio interview, by mobile phone, on the dangers of using a mobile phone while driving. When the call from the...

Can you tell what it is yet? Ben Oliver on his journey to the Arctic Circle I am in Hell. And it seems to have frozen over, so maybe the LibDems will win the next general election after all. There’s...