Matt Robinson

18 hours ago | carthrottle.com | Ryan Hirons |Matt Robinson |Mike Bartholomew |Phill Tromans

There’s a new Nissan Skyline in the works, and with the Japanese brand in some pretty steep financial trouble, we’re not expecting it to take a radical approach with the new car. Of course, the Skyline name is more than just the R-series GT-Rs – it’s been used by Nissan, and previously the Prince Motor Company, as a nameplate across saloons and coupes. Most recently, it appeared on the car better known to the Western world as the Infiniti Q50.

19 hours ago | carthrottle.com | Mike Bartholomew |Matt Robinson |Ryan Hirons |Phill Tromans

The Indianapolis 500 is Quite A Big Deal when it comes to motorsport. Not only is it considered part of racing’s ‘Triple Crown’ along with the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Monaco Grand Prix, it’s the most-attended single-day sporting event in the entire world, usually attracting crowds of well over 300,000 people on race day. Despite that, it can sometimes seem like a different universe to those of us used to watching F1. Why are the cars just racing around a giant rectangle?

20 hours ago | carthrottle.com | Mike Bartholomew |Matt Robinson |Ryan Hirons |Phill Tromans

The Mazda MX-5 is brilliant. Yeah, hot take, we know. There’s a reason it’s endured for so long – it absolutely nailed the roadster recipe, with a throaty four-pot engine, manual gearbox and a beautifully balanced rear-drive chassis. Throw in its excellent reliability and attainability, and it’s no wonder most of its rivals gave up trying to beat it.

22 hours ago | carthrottle.com | Mike Bartholomew |Matt Robinson |Ryan Hirons |Phill Tromans

Whether you genuinely like to spend your weekends heading out to the back end of nowhere and spending a day doing some serious winching, or just like the idea of looking like you do, there’s plenty of appeal in a car that can handle itself off-road. Obviously, lots of cars these days like to look like they’re capable off-roaders, but there aren’t that many that can properly handle themselves in the rough stuff.

1 day ago | carthrottle.com | Mike Bartholomew |Matt Robinson |Ryan Hirons |Phill Tromans

It’s been just under six years since we first saw the dramatic, retrofuturist lines of the De Tomaso P72, the first car from a revived version of Italy’s other esoteric Argentine-founded low-volume supercar maker. You’d be forgiven for wondering if we’d ever see it hit production, but hit production it has, and the car you see before you is the finished article.