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1 day 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.
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1 day 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?
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1 day 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.
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1 day 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.
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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.
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2 days ago | 
carthrottle.com | Mike Bartholomew |Matt Robinson |Ryan Hirons |Phill Tromans
Back in the late 1960s, cool surfing types in southern California realised that the VW Beetle could be quickly and easily turned into a handy little off-roader, good for everything from buzzing down to the beach to tackling long-distance desert races like the Baja 1000. The ‘Baja Bug’ had arrived. North Yorkshire is thousands of miles from ’60s SoCal – geographically, culturally, and in terms of its weather – but it does have some lovely beaches and a big surf culture.
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2 days ago | 
carthrottle.com | Ryan Hirons |Matt Robinson |Mike Bartholomew |Phill Tromans
It’s finally over. After decades of hard fighting, thousands of losses of social lives to Reddit arguments and great sacrifices of keyboard keys across the globe, the console wars are finally over. We can thank Forza Horizon 5 for bringing peace at last.
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2 days ago | 
carthrottle.com | Mike Bartholomew |Matt Robinson |Ryan Hirons |Phill Tromans
It’s been a long time since we’ve had a properly hot Vauxhall. Not since the Corsa VXR was discontinued in 2018 has there been a griffin-badged car to properly get enthusiasts interested. The company has tried with its GSE-badged warmed-over hybrids, but when we tested the Astra GSE last year, we came away largely unimpressed with its performance cred.
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3 days ago | 
carthrottle.com | Mike Bartholomew |Matt Robinson |Ryan Hirons |Phill Tromans
For an otherwise very prosaic family hatchback, the original Lancia Delta spawned an impressive number of performance versions. The world of rallying was mostly to thank for that – that was why Lancia developed the various iterations of the all-wheel drive HF Integrale that utterly dominated the WRC in the late ’80s and early ’90s. Before the Integrale, there was also 1985’s Delta S4 Stradale, built as a base for Lancia’s rally contender in the bonkers Group B era.
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3 days ago | 
carthrottle.com | Ryan Hirons |Matt Robinson |Mike Bartholomew |Phill Tromans
Given we’re in an age of ever-more stringent emissions regulations, a switch to electrification, and wide-scale turbocharging, it’s not hard to argue we’re beyond the peak of engine sounds. Yet, since the turn of the millennium, some cars have managed to buck the trend and deliver orchestral notes that will forever ring in our ears. We’ve picked out the 10 production cars built since 2000 that we think are the best. Feel free to tell us what we missed on socials, too.
