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Road Test of the Year 2010: Renaultsport Megane 250 Cup

There it is again – stuck to the back of the Audi like a piece of road tar on the bumper. Damn hot hatches – don’t they realise they’ve no right to keep up? Get back where you belong, in a McDonald’s car park. To say the Megane 250 Cup is competent would be doing it [...]

	Road Test of the Year 2010: Peugeot RCZ
We have some criteria to get a place in our RTOTY line up. It might seem like an excuse to get away for a few days in some exciting cars – and you’d be right in a lot of respects – but we do run our entrants past a loose set of rules too. Cars have to [...]

	Road Test of the Year 2010: Audi R8 V10 Spyder
There was a time when driving a supercar required balls of steel. You needed leg muscles the size of a bull’s, a sixth sense for parking and skin thicker than Janet Street-Porter’s to deflect the amount of abuse you’d get. Thankfully things are different these days – and there’s no better example of that than Audi’s staggeringly brilliant R8. [...]

	Road Test of the Year 2010: Aston Martin Rapide
For a lesson in how not to make a four-door GT car, take a sneaky peak at the bulbous Porsche Panamera. A sickeningly stodgy, podgy people mover that makes a Ssangyong Rodius look well-proportioned, it’s hard to comprehend how that motoring monstrosity and the 911 come from the same maker. Thankfully, Aston Martin employed a design team with eyes to [...]

	VIDEO: Audi R8 V10 Spyder vs Boxster Spyder
A FEW weeks ago the Car Dealer team spent a rather enjoyable five days in Wales with some incredible cars. The reason? Well, it was for our Road Test of the Year special which will be featuring in the next issue of Car Dealer, out in the middle of September. This year we brought together [...]

		RTOTY10: Experiencing supercardom
		James Batchelor was on work experience the week our cars were delivered for this year’s Road Test of the Year. Here he explains just what it was like to experience three of them (from the passenger seat). THE Porsche Boxster Spyder, the Audi R8 V10 Spyder, and Aston Martin’s Rapide – three of the most [...]
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		RTOTY: A dawn cover shoot, F15s and plod
		SORRY for the lack of a Road Test of the Year update yesterday – the 3am start sort of killed the end of the day… We were up well before dawn to bag the cover shot for the next issue – and it was well worth our bleary eyes. The results our snapper Dean Smith [...]
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		RTOTY: Strange things happen when you’re driving supercars
		PEOPLE do very strange things when you rock up in a bunch of supercars – and today was a good example of that. Sunday was location-scouting day for tomorrow’s big shoot and we headed to Black Rock Sands beach, near Porthmadog, where we’ll be shooting the cover for the next issue. It was there we [...]
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		RTOTY: Choosing what to drive…
		NEW rule: If you do not want to enjoy twisty roads PULL OVER. That concludes today’s public service broadcast. As you can probably tell, the first day of this year’s Road Test of the Year has been rather frustrating. If it wasn’t soaking motorways in Warwickshire, it was outside lane-hogging white van drivers. Then, after [...]
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		RTOTY: Stressed out by our collection of cars
		I’m stressed out. Like a lot. But it’s stress in a good way. If that’s possible? It’s the sort of stress that comes with weight on your shoulders – £350,000 worth of weight to be exact. Today the cars are arriving for our annual Road Test of the Year – our celebration of the best [...]
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