Proms Podcast

Star musicians and your favourite Times writers at the Albert Hall

Navigation - link to other main sections from here

Skip Navigation

Good Car Bad Car: luxury cars

Winner: Rolls-Royce Phantom

Rolls Royce Phantom

Imagine sitting in complete silence in an armchair with your toes sunk into a polar-bear fur rug in the library of a stately home. Now transpose that image to the inside of a car on the M4 travelling at 70mph

Audi A8 4.2 TDI quattro

2nd: Audi A8 4.2 TDI quattro SE

It is a cruel quirk of fashion that American rappers and English footballers have fallen for the great conservative British marques

Bentley Continental Flying Spur

3rd: Bentley Continental Flying Spur

Is it a Bentley? Is it a VW? Who cares. What the Flying Spur is is the perfect blend of speed, security and sense of occasion

Mercedes-Benz S500

4th: Mercedes-Benz S 500

Mercedes doesn’t know how to build a bad luxury saloon and its latest may well be remembered as the best of all

Maybach 57 S

Bad car: Maybach 57 S

I can see why they built this car. The standard Maybach just isn’t selling, so they’ve pepped it up and launched a sporty version

British Motor Show

Premieres, supercars and the largest collection of zero-emissions vehicles ever seen in the UK

Slide Show

British Motor Show

A man photographs the new Opel Insignia at the British International Motor Show in London, Britain, 22 July 2008.

60 manufacturers, over 600 cars and millions of pounds of machinery go on display in London

Slide Show

Car Reviews

Tools and Services

Most Read

Skip Most Read

Today

MOST COMMENTED

Skip Editor's Pick

Today

MOST CURIOUS

Skip Most Curious

Today