Features - by Ben Whitworth

Two paddles or three pedals? Ben Whitworth decides

Audi's top brass explain why they're ruling out F1

Audi's Le Mans team tell us what's coming for endurance racing

We ponder the fate of the forgotten Scooby SUV

Ben Whitworth lusts after Honda's first supercar

The answer's out! Find out where we've driven to now

Unpretentious, good value, practical: all hail the Czechs!

Ben Whitworth recalls his driving test failure

Ben Whitworth goes all misty-eyed remembering his first Mini

One CAR writer hasn’t driven an R8. Until now

Looking at the Chevrolet Volt and Saab 9-X Air concept that have dominated CAR's homepage over the past seven days, I couldn’t help but play the ‘what if’ game. Instead of the catalogue of...

Last week I did something I never thought I would do. I purchased a Volvo. A dirty great big V70 estate – a D5 SE if you like that sort of detail. Our little Skoda Fabia estate was battling to handle...

Forget the Batmobile, the Mazda Furai is one of the wildest looking cars of the moment. And we've just had one of the wildest rides of our life in this astonishing race car-cum-concept. You can watch...

It’s funny how speed works. In a car designed and engineered for serious pace, anything up to 150mph feels pretty normal. Driving to Waitrose normal. Calm and controlled, as you lap the Millbrook bowl...

I read Ben Pulman’s recent blog on Porsche’s proposed ‘hatch’. While every manufacturer needs to keep a beady eye on its Corporate Average Fuel Economy figures, I presume Porsche would be tackling...

I read the news that William Riley was resuscitating the MG SV with alarm (click here to remind yourself of the story). I had the misfortune to drive an SV when it was launched back in 2003. And it...

Am I the only one left stone cold by the utter irrelevance of a 300bhp Focus RS? I mean 300bhp – that’s just a ludicrous amount of power and torque to put through the front wheels of any car, no...

Chasing sales by plugging smaller niches may ruin Audi's health, says Ben Whitworth Last week I wrote the best part of a thousand words outlining Audi’s never-ending barrage of key new models up to...

A car's name is crucial to its success - so when and why do manufacturers change it? Despite the best and moneyed efforts of Nissan’s marketing majors, the fabulous new GT-R will always be a Skyline.

Can the home-grown, sports-car-in-a-shed industry survive? Ben Whitworth hopes so So Marcos is dead. Last week the Kenilworth-based car maker called in the receivers. Another small-volume British...

It took having a few children for Ben Whitworth to finally understand Volvo's appeal I never really got Volvo. Sure, I’ve driven all the models in its transition from cumbersome and quirky to sleek...

From his first Mercedes to his long-term Seat, Ben Whitworth's memories all centre around cars... My wife uses songs. My brother (Lieutenant Commander, RN) uses ships. My best mate uses rugby matches.

Do premium badges guarantee slick design? Not if you squint at a Proton, says Ben Whitworth Snarled up in traffic trying to get into Chichester last Saturday morning, I spotted the rear of a...

Bigger isn't better. Why the new M3 has lost its forebears' purity, by Ben Whitworth I hope I'm not alone in feeling a little luke-warm about the Whole BMW M3 Thing. Yes, it's a formidable steer and...

Give me a Ford over a BMW any day, argues Ben Whitworth Much to my disappointment, my eldest brother doesn't give a damn about cars. 'They’re just tools, something to get you from A to B,' he says...

Blandness is the biggest design sin of all, argues Ben Whitworth About 10 years ago, I was handed the keys to my first long-term test car, a Subaru Impreza estate. I called it the Warthog and over its...