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Every month CAR interviews the stars of motorsport, demystifies the latest in-car technology and shares our writers’ passion for car culture and car design. Discover the world’s newest and most exciting cars: join us to drive everything from supercars and hot hatches to family cars.

Welcome • Retro is a tricky thing to keep moving forward

Is Trump killing the best American cars ever built? • Trump’s weakened regulations aimed at encouraging EV adoption, cut investment in EV infrastructure and ended consumer incentives

This month on billionaire’s row

Fastback Velar? In-house Jag rival? Range Rover’s GT explained

Tech is killing F1 (again)

What does Ruf know that Porsche doesn’t?

Remembrance of things past

The Audi A2 is reborn, kind of

Why Honda is ditching the mainstream

The battle for new buyers

Left brain, right brain • The latest Emira, the most focused Lotus sports car in years, meets the hybrid SUV that’s risen from the tatters of the plan to go all electric. Is this a combination of head and heart that can make the world love Lotus again?

Plan N from inner space • When the going gets tough, the tough get weird… and oddly roomy

Xerox to herox • It may be a visual rip-off of the Defender, but it’s neatly done

Risky business • A roof-less Porsche 911 GT3 really shouldn’t work

When the stars align • The first electric C-Class is just what you want from an electric C-Class. It’s very Merc, just as the new i3 is very BMW

Letter of the month

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‘In tough times car manufacturers will go where profits are big and demand booms’

‘Ferrari’s EV is no joke. It’s a space-age Maybach, a dramatic limo for arriving at gala balls’

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SUPERCAR SUPERSTAR • Stéphane Ratel is synonymous with GT sports car racing. But it’s his 40-year, speed-soaked obsession with the supercar that defines the man

ROGUE TWO • The return of the Prelude isn’t just Honda dusting off an old name – it signals a fresh appetite for the fray. We drive the new coupe alongside its kindred spirit, the Mazda MX-5

HELL CLIMB • Breathtaking, and not always in a good way: welcome to Pikes Peak, a giddy mix of anticipation, dedication, danger and nausea. We join Romain Dumas as he attempts to beat his own record

Destination virtual France • DS reckons the Nº8 can transform any trip. Really? Let’s see what Bristol has to say about that.

Climbing high? • Increase sales, please the Alpine loyalists – the A390 has got a lot of work to do.

Black sheep or true heir? • Is the M2 CS an all-time great – and a sound investment? Finally, we have some answers.

Uncancelled • The hot Alfa Giulia is back – barely changed, and that’s fine with us.

The art of restraint • Sometimes, car design doesn’t need to shock: our CLE is proof less can be more.

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