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    • Mulling modded guilty pleasures of the 1980s

      19 June 2012 by Chris Chilton

      Celebrating some of dodgiest Teutonic tuning excesses

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    • Build it yourself Porsche 911 GT3 RS

      29 December 2011 by Chris Chilton

      Chris Chilton gets tempted by scale model of the 911

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    • Are diesel particulate filters more trouble than they’re worth?

      26 August 2011 by Chris Chilton

      Why some drivers are removing DPFs to save money

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    • Off-road in the Range Rover Evoque

      05 April 2011 by Chris Chilton

      Can the new baby Rangie handle the rough stuff?

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    • The alternative Performance Car of the Year

      31 December 2010 by Chris Chilton

      Can't afford our PCOTY entrants? Here's the cut-price alternatives we recommend

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    • Why we’ve all got to retrain for the electric revolution

      17 August 2010 by Chris Chilton

      Chris Chilton drove the new electric VW Golf – and reckons we'll have to recalibrate our knowledge base to keep up

      New e-tech means we all have to go back to school

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    • The Arthur Daley Jags and why it’s not all glamour

      21 May 2010 by Chris Chilton

      Some XJ40 tales from our grease monkey past

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    • Why I ended up buying two E12 BMW M535i’s

      28 January 2010 by Chris Chilton

      BMW's E12 M535i: Chris Chilton now owns two

      Chilton's habit: two identical '80s M cars on his drive

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    • Mini memories: Chris Chilton remembers a life of Minis

      21 September 2009 by Chris Chilton

      Our assistant editor reveals his favourite Mini moments

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    • Will the Germans ever win? A magazine retrospective

      30 December 2008 by Chris Chilton

      Will the Germans ever win?

      An old issue of CAR gets Chris Chilton thinking

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    • Why we chose Wales for Performance Car of the Year 2008

      24 September 2008 by Chris Chilton

      We like Wales. You’d like it too if you don’t already. This place is like a giant playground for the car obsessed. The scenery is epic but the roads are even better. We needed a great track for this...

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    • Porsches aren’t just about the horsepower

      28 April 2008 by Chris Chilton

      While chatting to Arash Farboud, the man behind both the original Farboud GT and the new Arash supercar (with a naming policy as imaginative as that he's going to be stuck if he ever builds a third),...

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    • 911 humbled by Caparo? The truth

      24 November 2007 by Chris Chilton

      Driving an old 911 back to back with a Caparo T1 throws Chris Chilton's perspective I haven’t managed many long trips in my 'new' old 911, so when I had to get over to Bruntingthorpe airfield to drive...

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    • Muscle in mind. Muscle cars and Chris Chilton

      20 August 2007 by Chris Chilton

      Happiness is watching a load of old 60s and 70s muscle cars pounding the quarter mile You either get muscle cars or you don't. Dynamically they're mostly rubbish, but what you lose in steering feel,...

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    • Why we should all take the driving test again

      24 May 2007 by Chris Chilton

      Chris Chilton argues for regular retesting of all drivers Anyone see Jo Brand campaigning to get old drivers off the road on telly the other night? She reckoned British drivers over 70 should be...

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    • Arguing over Ferraris: which is really best?

      30 April 2007 by Chris Chilton

      Behind the scenes of CAR Magazine's June 2007 cover story How could six ever be enough? We asked ourselves the same question and quarrelled like school kids over the finalists. Where was the Boxer,...

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    • Why Honda’s F1 livery is wrong

      01 March 2007 by Chris Chilton

      Honda's eco-livery is a PR smokescreen So Honda's bold new F1 livery (which covers the car in a map of the world, for those who haven't seen it) is supposed to raise awareness of global warming. How...

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    • Hankering after a 911: a dangerous admission by Chris Chilton

      06 February 2007 by Chris Chilton

      Have cash, will buy. But 911-hunting is proving more difficult than we thought... Patience, the saying goes, is a virtue. Sadly it’s not one of mine. There is a pile of cash in my pocket and it’s...

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