Introduction

Car magazine is the world's longest-established and foremost premium automotive brand, which has been celebrating great cars­ and berating bad ones­ since 1962. As a lovingly produced magazine­ and now also a fast-moving website and unsurpassed motoring app for the iPad,­ Car is the first and last bastion of brilliantly written, deliciously photographed and utterly fearless car journalism.

Car loves the whole spectrum of auto passion­ from the flat-out testing of the world's greatest cars to the fizzing politics taking place in the boardrooms of the big manufacturers. Our global team of feature writers and auto journalists are inside the industry, learning about new models before anyone else, test-driving the prototypes, taking you on deep-dive journeys under the skin of exciting cars and road-testing them to within an inch of their lives.

We're the magazine that invented the Giant Test – in which new models face their rivals – and we pioneered adventure drives on the world's most amazing roads, first coined the term 'supercar', created the industry's most feared buying guide (The Good, the Bad & the Ugly) and introduced spy photography – in which secret new cars are caught being tested.

All this, plus our insight into buying great used bargains, a unique insider view on motorsport (especially F1) and a generous glug of car culture from around the world, make up the fabric of Britain's fastest growing motoring magazine.
 
If you love cars, join the growing band of global Car fans.­ We reckon it's the most fun you can have on four wheels!

Phil McNamara
Editor