The Intercooler Audio Articles

The seven-time F1 champion’s own appraisal of his 2025 season pulled no punches. But has it really been so bad? Dan Prosser investigates

In the first of a new series, Andrew Frankel gets not just to drive, but to live with a car he first drove 15 years ago. Has age wearied it? What do you think?

It’s very small and it’s not very powerful but don’t let that deceive you: Honda is back in the fun car business, says Andrew English, and it’s coming here

A short journey into a possible near future. By Andrew Frankel

Think all Lotus Evoras are the same? Think again: it took Gez Medinger five years to find the right one for him.

It's one of those cars that really shouldn't work but somehow it largely does, says Andrew Frankel

A rare and exotic sports car for the same price as a decent third-generation Toyota MR2? There must be a catch, says Lewis Kingston

These are perhaps the best reimagined classics we've driven. But how different to one another can two E-types really be? Very, says Andrew Frankel. 

All those little things that help to transform life on the road. Who thought of them, when and why? Mel Nichols has the answers. 

The A110 R Ultime costs twice as much as the next most expensive A110 and is designed to be driven on a track. So it’s an expensive irrelevance, right? Not so fast, says Steve Sutcliffe

Our new series kicked off in Detroit, but now heads back across the water to the French capital, where European car culture was born. By Gavin Green

It’s slow, left-hand drive only wasn’t very successful when new. But none of that stops Maximilian Chester loving the roadster with the disappearing doors

This crossover electric SUV is the car that has to bring volume sales to the Alpine brand. Can such a machine really be worthy of that name? Andrew English decides 

Are Chinese cars just ‘stack ’em high, sell ’em cheap’ rubbish, or serious contenders in an increasingly crowded marketplace? Ben Oliver drove 10 of them to find out

Two British supercoupés of similar age and performance, but utterly different approaches. Andrew Frankel decides between them

There’s now a standard 911 with over 700bhp costing all but £200,000. Can it possibly be worth it? Andrew English is the one finding out

Tati Reed wanted to test her newly acquired overlanding adventurer. So obviously a 5000-mile trip to Romania and back was required

It’s ageing, it’s expensive and it’s the heaviest Porsche ever sold. Does the flagship Cayenne still have what it takes? Andrew Frankel finds out

Henry Catchpole heads to Maranello to drive Ferrari’s latest hardcore special. Can it possibly live up to its mighty forebears? 

Ahead of this afternoon's review of the 296 Speciale, Andrew Frankel looks at its forebears and decides which is best.

Most motoring journalists fawned over the Impreza when it first came out. Then again, most motoring journalists aren’t Steve Sutcliffe

Or, why I bought a Corvair. It’s the car that was labelled as positively dangerous when launched. So of course Richard Bremner had to own one

We’re inundated with it these days. But does it matter if you have the power to go with it? You bet it does, says Gez Medinger.

If you knew, as you shortly will, how expensive rear lights are to create, you'd not wonder why small manufacturers try to get them from almost anywhere else. Richard Porter reports. 

Helen Wakerley spent years behind the wheel of Maranello's finest. But one car, and one feeling, never left her. This is the story of how a childhood dream became both a career, and a homecoming.