Autocar Road Test

Ninety years from now, we’ll be celebrating 180 years of the Autocar road test (we hope). Andrew Frankel predicts what we’ll be driving So what will the cars tested by Autocar 90 years from now […]

The mechanical evolution of the automobile, as seen through our testers’ eyes The four-valve cylinder head was seen as a powerful marketing tool in the 1980s, when a ‘16v’ badge on the back of a […]

From leaf springs to active suspension: nine decades of chassis development No area of car design has advanced more than this in the past 90 years, and it’s easy to see why. While the internal […]

The profile of a typical Autocar road tester has changed a great deal over nine decades – and in a way for which the current road test editor can only apologise. There are currently no […]

Today’s cars’ cabins are an extension of the modern home, but it wasn’t always so The science of ergonomics didn’t really exist in 1928. The cabin of a car from that era was a chaotic […]

How technological developments pushed the automotive envelope It could be expressed in a thousand different ways just how much faster cars have become since 1928. Rather than compare the top speed of the Austin Seven, […]

Can the first car this magazine road tested have anything in common with the most recent? Andrew Frankel finds out Perhaps the single most remarkable thing about The Autocar (as it was then) conducting and […]

Running a car was once a more hands-on experience than it is today Grease points. Decokes. Carburettor dashpot top-ups. If you bought a new car at any point from 1928 right through to the 1970s, […]