Road & Motor
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Road tests in the making, grand touring, great roads and the craft of driving. Machines are meant to move.
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The Transfagarasan: A Driver's Guide to the World's Most Famous Road
Ninety kilometres, 2,042 metres, five tunnels and one Balea Tunnel. Romania's DN7C is usually open from late June to late October. Here is how to drive it properly.
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In Praise of the Night Drive
The best driving happens after dark, when the traffic thins, the headlights carve the road, and the car becomes the only lit room for miles. An essay on motoring's quietest pleasure.
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What makes an automobile significant
Speed is the easiest thing to measure and the least interesting thing to ask. Drawing on the Gordon Murray T.50, the Ferrari Amalfi, the Porsche 911 GT3, and the Aston Martin Vanquish, this essay sets out the criteria by which a car earns lasting significance: engineering, design, innovation, craft, rarity, provenance, culture, and the driving experience.
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The Great Alpine Passes: A Driver's Guide to Four High Roads
The Stelvio, the Grossglockner, the Route des Grandes Alpes and the Furka-Grimsel loop, measured by what each one asks of car and driver.
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Ferrari Amalfi: the numbers behind Maranello's new front-engine grand tourer
Ferrari's Roma successor keeps the front-engine V8 formula and sharpens it on paper: 640 cv, 3.3 seconds to 100 km/h, and a claimed 1,470 kg dry weight. Here is the specification analysis, claim by claim.