The Intercooler Audio Articles

The 2026 WRC season has just concluded in the most dramatic of fashions. Henry Catchpole describes how Britain’s first champion in a quarter of a century conquered the rallying world

Or is it? Citroen’s new 2CV concept is charming and brimming with great ideas. But, asks Andrew English, how much will make it into production?

A 30-year-old French supercar no-one’s heard of? How could you possibly refuse, asks Andrew Frankel

It might have had a mechanical overhaul and a new engine, but something was rotten at his DeLorean’s core, and it couldn’t be ignored. Gez Medinger undertakes his biggest job yet

Namely, trying to keep up with a Ferrari test driver on a test track. Always up for an heroically futile escapade, Andrew Frankel tries his luck

If the famous leaper is to spring once more, this is the car that has to do it. Richard Bremner on Jaguar’s most important car since the XK120

Norton’s new hyperbike is fast, beautiful and vastly desirable. But what, wonders Andrew English, can you actually do with it?

…wonderful things can happen, as Joana Fidalgo reports from the Japanese drifting scene in, er, Ireland

Underrated, undervalued, and overlooked. Why the younger sibling of the famed E46 M3 is one of the great modern-classic bargains. By Gez Medinger

Think the original Prius and 2026 Formula 1 have nothing in common? Ben Hedley of Hedley Studios, formerly the Little Car Company, invites you to think again

Popular conception holds the VW Golf to be the original fast hatchback. In fact, says Gavin Green, it was fully half a decade late to that particular party

So devoted are we to the British lightweight sports car that Andrew Frankel and Gez Medinger each keep one of their own in the shed. What happens when they exchange keys?

Production lines don’t always exist merely within factories. Sometimes they stretch across cities, countries or even oceans. Richard Porter reports

A young man in a slow car going too fast in the wrong conditions. A disaster waiting to happen. Andrew Frankel was at the wheel when it did

Helen Wakerley gets to the heart of the first-generation Audi R8 GT, and why those who know the R8 best consider it the greatest of them all

The Volkswagen XL1 has a successor, and all it needs to get built is for enough people to say that it should. Richard Aucock weighs the evidence

Electrification seems to have re-booted the front-driven hot hatch, but can we – or should we – compare it to the halcyon days of the 1980s? A Peugeot 205 GTI owner himself, Ben Oliver drives the new E-208 GTI to find out

How much power is enough power? Henry Catchpole saddles up the 2031bhp Hennessey Venom F5 Revolution Evolution Stealth and finds out

Ollie Marriage says the rowdy AMG CLE 646 Spezialanfertigung marks a belated return to what this heavy metal brand does best

There’s nothing quite like the sight of the DB12 S to ease that 5am alarm, but have its foibles driven Andrew Frankel up the wall?  

Five years ago Ti reinvented the automotive publishing model. It’s time for the next stage of our evolution, says Andrew Frankel

Can Cupra’s feistiest ever offering reinvent the dynamic rule book with the ultimate one-car-solution? After 2000 miles Gez Medinger thinks he has the answer

… Or so TE Lawrence christened his first Brough Superior. He rode them hard, fast and for huge distances, until one fateful day. Andrew English looks back

Driverless cars in crowded cities. We all know it’s happening, but what’s it really like? A sceptical Andrew Frankel takes a deep breath

Much was expected of the Audi A2, but it never took off. But is the reason it failed then actually the reason it succeeds today? Andrew Frankel takes his time finding out