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• This Tiny Hatchback Is The Best-Selling Car In China. But How?

  19-07-2026 18:00 via motor1.com
  
  China's hottest EV isn't an SUV—it's an affordable hatchback that's outselling the Tesla Model Y.
  
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• Bentley honey, Volvo blankets: The truth about car testing 'freebies'

  19-07-2026 16:00 via autocar.co.uk
  
  Dacia Duster model was procured on Verpraet's very first press trip
  The Jeep M&Ms are nice and I like my Polestar bottle - but gifts don't mean five-star reviewsThere’s an uncomfortable truth in motoring media that isn’t talked about very often: there are a lot of freebies going around. Some of them are necessary, of course. We can’t test a car properly without spending a decent amount of time in it, so it does mean getting a ‘free’ car for the week.
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• The best cars never sold in America

  19-07-2026 09:39 via autocar.co.uk
  
  We take a look at the great cars that America has missed out on over the yearsUntil China took over in 2009, America was the world’s largest car market.This meant that all car makers did their level best to get a piece of the action. But there have long been substantial differences between the American market and those in Europe and Asia. And those differences tend to account for why certain models were never sold there.
  But it does mean that America misses out on great vehicles like the B
  
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• Britain’s best dead car companies

  19-07-2026 09:39 via autocar.co.uk
  
  A journey back in time to some of the UK's most excellent car companies, sadly now deceased
  Car-making is hard.Profitable car-making is a whole lot harder, and for proof you only need take a look at the failed British car companies we’re looking at here.
  Some were born close to the dawn of the car, when bicycle-makers saw money in the new-fangled horseless carriage. But it wasn’t easy. Car-making at the start of the 20th century was like internet projects at the end of it - plenty tr
  
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• 12 cylinders, 12,000 miles: I drive my Lambo Diablo SV in all weathers

  19-07-2026 07:00 via autocar.co.uk
  
  Seven years of ownership has taught Peter Dietsch how to live with a '90s Italian supercarThe odometer in Peter Dietsch's right-hand drive, UK-registered Lamborghini Diablo reads 83,000, but that's kilometres, not miles.
  Bizarrely, while the speedos in most pre-1999 Diablos were calibrated in both MPH and KPH, as required by law, their odos always displayed the distance the car had travelled in kilometres. That's why, when I ask Peter how many miles he has done in his, he replies, rather confusi
  
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• Santa Pod at 60: Why home of drag racing is stronger than ever

  19-07-2026 05:00 via autocar.co.uk
  
  Racers blasting beyond 300mph never gets old - but there's much more to UK's most famous drag strip
  If you like extremes, you'll love Top Fuel drag racing. Some numbers: 0-343mph in 3.6sec, 11,500bhp, fuel consumption of five gallons per second... To these can now be added '60' - as in 60 years of Santa Pod Raceway (1966-2026), the drag mecca in Bedfordshire. Or is it Northamptonshire? Both councils claim it but then nothing's normal in this sport, including Keith Bartlett, the Bernie Ecclestone
  
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