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Why this year's Festival of the Unexceptional was the best yet

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By Steve Cropley Verified
| Autocar Verified
Find me another car show, if you can, where the victorious car is 25 years old, has done 176,000 miles, was its owner’s wedding car and has been his daily driver ever since he bought it 20 years ago. The car I’m talking about is a 999cc, 49bhp Volkswagen Polo C owned by Gordon McNeill, winner at the 2026 Hagerty Festival of the Unexceptional, held last weekend at Grimsthorpe Castle in Lincolnshire.
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Inside JCB’s plans to smash hydrogen land speed record

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By Steve Cropley Verified
| Autocar Verified
British engineering firm JCB’s new Hydromax land speed record challenger has reached 208mph to exceed the current speed for the faster hydrogen-powered combustion car as its testing programme wraps up. The firm is aiming to set a new hydrogen land speed record with the machine on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah in August, repeating its success in setting a diesel land speed record with its Dieselmax challenger in 2006.
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How UK firm is helping the niche industry survive the EV age

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By Steve Cropley Verified
| Autocar Verified
Nothing governs the size and shape of a car, its character and even its soul, more directly than the platform on which it rides. Spaceframe or ladder, skateboard or monocoque, it's the platform that governs how well a car's suspension and powertrain will work and even how its wheels will turn. Which is why car makers spend hundreds of millions on new platforms, especially in this burgeoning electrification era, when so many inner components of cars are new.
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