Articles by Matt Kimberley

America’s Fastest Police Car Is Now An SUV With A Hybrid V6
Testing by Michigan State Police has found that Ford’s new Police Interceptor Utility is the country’s fastest, beating several V8 saloons in the process
Here’s Why Compressor Surge Isn’t Always A Disaster
If you believe everything you read in the comment sections, compressor surge – also called flutter – is basically the sound of impending doom, but that’s not necessarily true

What Is Multi-Link Suspension And How Is It Used?
Multi-link suspension is a complex and effective way to give a car bounce, but how does it work and why is it becoming more common?

What Is Scrub Radius And Why Is It Important?
When you’re messing with suspension, wheel sizes and new suspension, the scrub radius can change – and it can have a big impact on your car’s driveability

Porsche’s Epic 935 Recreation Is The Start Of Something Spectacular
Porsche has joined the retro-modern party with its 935 recreation, and with a back-catalogue like Porsche’s, we’re getting short of breath thinking about what might come next

A Sub-£10k Skoda Octavia vRS MkIII Will Solve All Your Problems
The Skoda Octavia vRS took a big leap forwards for its third generation, but now this king of the all-rounders has dipped under the £10,000 mark

Pininfarina Has Secured Rimac Power For The 1900bhp PF0 Hypercar
With a former project boss from the Porsche Mission E team and official support from Rimac with bonkers powertrain technology, the PF0 hypercar is taking shape
Suzuki GB Has Taken 3 Years' Worth Of New Jimny Interest In 3 Months
The outgoing Jimny sold at a rate of around 1000 units a year in the UK, but the level of interest in the new one is triple that, just three months after the car was revealed
Trump Metal Tariffs Have Hit Ford For $1 Billion
Ford's CEO has spoken out about the negative impact of tariffs placed on foreign metals by the US president Donald Trump, and it's a big number

Fraud Lawsuit Could Ban Elon Musk From Running Tesla
Elon Musk has been accused of securities fraud at the highest level, with one very possible outcome that of his messy departure from the company - forever
A Volvo Estate With Off-Road Tech Is Our Kind Of Swedish Cool
We know we probably shouldn’t go gooey over an estate car with grey plastic trim extensions, a suspension lift and a roof rack, but when it’s a Volvo…

John Cena’s Ford GT Is About To Be Sold For The Fourth Time
The Ford GT originally owned by wrestling superstar John Cena has gone to auction yet again, making this the fourth time the car will have been sold
How Do Dampers Actually Work?
Dampers are what prevent your suspension delivering all the stability of a water bed, so it’s crucial that they work. But what’s inside them and how do they work?

Bugatti Will Launch A Second Model Line - And It'll Be An SUV
Reports are suggesting that declining four-door luxury car sales have changed Bugatti's direction - its second model line is now most likely to be an SUV

Can You Help Find The Long-Lost Lotus Mark I?
The car described as the holy grail of Lotus history has officially been lost since the 1950s, but now the company wants your help to find it… or what’s left of it

You Can Bag Toyota's Sublime V12 Century For £12,000
It's super-cool, ultra-luxurious and so 1990 it hurts, and this near-mint Toyota Century has filled us with air-sprung, V12-driven lust

AMG's New A45 Could Top 400bhp, But We'd Choose The 302bhp A35
We all know it’s impossible to legally use a supercar's full performance on public roads, but hey, you're still in a supercar. Hot hatchbacks are proving what supercars can’t: that excess power isn’t always a good thing

That Time BMW Built A Rear-Engined Off-Road Convertible
BMW has built some crazy concepts over the years, but the one that stands out as being eerily ahead of its time is the Z18 off-road roadster

AMG’s New 300bhp Golf R Rival Is Coming - And It's Bringing Wing
Mercedes-AMG is ramping the upcoming A45 up to serious sports car speeds, creating a gap for this A35 to compete with the Volkswagen Golf R and Audi S3

Get A Load Of BMW’s New Electric Crossover Concept
Whether you love it or loathe it, there’s very little chance that you’ll forget the BMW Vision iNext concept… ever
Shifting An Old Car Into Reverse At Speed Is A Predictably Bad Idea
The brilliant thing about YouTube is that broadcasters can answer your burning 'what would happen if...' questions, and most, like this one, aren't things to try at home...
Here’s All That’s Broken On The USA's Cheapest Ferrari Testarossa
After buying the USA’s cheapest running Ferrari Testarossa, in eighties-appropriate white, Tyler Hoover has taken the car into a workshop... and the repairs won’t be cheap
Does The New 911’s Weird Backside Prove Porsche's Design Critics Wrong?
It's a running joke to criticise how little the Porsche 911 changes stylistically, but the new 992 model's back end is surprisingly different... and it shows you should be careful what you wish for