What’s the world’s greatest grand tourer? They are coupes that blend comfort and sport to the highest degree.

Could it be the new for 2021 Ferrari Roma? It is fabulous. And fast. It has a 3.9-litre twin turbocharged V8 making 612bhp and 561lb ft, which is enough to propel this 1570kg car from 0-62mph in 3.4sec and on to a top speed of 199mph. In the UK, the Roma’s price is £170,984 before options.

Or could it be the Bentley Continental GT? Also recently revised, the GT V8 has a 4.0-litre twin turbo V8, slightly down on power on the Ferrari, but still making a fulsome 542bhp and 568lb ft. This 4wd car is the heaviest one here, at 2149kg, and completes the 0-62mph dash in 4.0sec and goes on to a 198mph top speed. It costs from £166,200.

Finally, then, is the Aston Martin DB11 AMR. Because this is the AMR model it has nothing less than a 5.2-litre twin-turbocharged V12 engine, making some 630bhp and 516lb ft. Like the Ferrari it’s rear-wheel drive, so weighs less than the Bentley, at 1870kg, and is good for a 0-62mph sprint in 3.7sec and has a 208mph top speed. It costs from £178,495 and, on paper, looks like it sits somewhere between the Ferrari and Bentley in terms of size and sportiness.

How, though, will that turn out on the road? Join Matt Prior as he sets out to find the world’s greatest GT car.

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Welcome to the Autocar Awards 2021, sponsored by Britishvolt.

Join us as we name the finest cars of the year, and also – and this is what makes the Autocar Awards special – as we celebrate the people who made them.

The Autocar Awards celebrate the very best the car industry has to offer. We’ll be naming the winner of our prestigious Issigonis Award, which recognises extraordinary achievements by those at the top as they steer the motoring industry, as well as the Editor’s Award, which goes to goes to someone the Autocar team judge to have had the biggest impact on their company’s success this year.

Also on the roster are the Mundy Award for Engineering, the Sturmey Award and the Lifetime Achievement award, and we’ll also be honouring this year’s best cars, be they five-star road test cars, or simply brilliant driver’s cars.

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Welcome to the second in a series of videos set to answer the crucial question: will it drift?

We have four 4wd hot hatchbacks – the new 2021 Volkswagen Golf R, the latest Mercedes-AMG A45 S, the Toyota GR Yaris and a Mk3 Ford Focus RS. And we’re taking them all to a low-grip skidpan to answer that most vital of questions. Will they go sideways?

Then we have a two-wheel drive not-exactly-conventional-hatchback, too. The Renault Clio V6.

Next up is the Mercedes-AMG A45 S. Like the Volkswagen Golf R it has a funky four-wheel drive system with two clutches on its back axle that can torque vector to give one wheel or another as much or as little torque as possible. But, given its never more than 50% rear-biased, will that be enough on this very low grip, very slow, Thruxton skid pan?

This series complements a written Autocar feature about torque vectoring, that includes full technical details and interviews with the engineers behind these cars. We’ll update this description when it goes online – but for now, don’t forget you ca pick up the magazine in all good newsagents and via digital subscription.

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They were the future, once. Back we decided that using no fuel at all was the way to go, these cars were designed to use as little of it as possible.

First up, then, the Toyota Prius, the original petrol-electric hybrid vehicle for the masses. It looks conventional (ish) but housed what was, at the time, a truly unusual powerplant.

It was followed by the first-generation Honda Insight, the radical-looking two-door coupe that put aerodynamics and compactness at the centre of its ability to return 100mpg in careful driving.

And then, finally, the most exotic fuel-saver ever created. Volkswagen’s XL1 was original conceived as a ‘one-litre’ car, one that would sip fuel at just 1 litre per 100km (or 282.5mpg). It’s impossibly light, inconceivably small, and beautifully constructed from carbon-fibre and unobtanium. VW only made 250 of them and they need very careful looking after.

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Welcome to the first of a new series of videos set to answer the question: will it drift?

We have four 4wd hot hatchbacks – the new 2021 Volkswagen Golf R, the latest Mercedes-AMG A45, the Toyota GR Yaris and a Mk3 Ford Focus RS. And we’re taking them all to a low-grip skidpan to answer that most vital of questions. Will they go sideways?

Then we have a two-wheel drive not-exactly-conventional-hatchback, too. The Renault Clio V6.

First up, in this video, is the new Volkswagen Golf R. It has a funky four-wheel drive system with two clutches on its back axle that can torque vector to give one wheel or another as much or as little torque as possible. But, given its never more than 50% rear-biased, will that be enough on this very low grip, very slow, Thruxton skid pan?

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This is the latest 2021 version of the Mini Cooper S, making its debut almost exactly 20 years after the first BMW-engineered version of the car appeared as a 21st century reinterpretation of the original.

Since then the ‘new’ BMW Mini has been through plenty of iterations, up to and including EV and PHEV variants and even a crossover. But in this 3-door hot hatch Cooper S derivative it still feels like arguably the purest kind of Mini to us.

The latest Mini Cooper S makes 175bhp and 207lb ft from its generously-sized 2.0-litre turbocharged engine. That lets it hit 0-62mph in 6.8sec and gives it a top speed of 146mph. It’ll return 43.5-45.6mpg and has a CO2 output of 140-148g/km.

Those are the headline numbers. But join Autocar’s special correspondent James Disdale as he finds out some of the more important things – how does the 2021 Mini Cooper S feel, and how much fun is it to drive?

Want more Mini action? Here’s a Mini Electric versus a Honda E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmkPRNKqmQ4

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How do you make one of the world’s greatest GT cars even more exciting? Wind up its engine to 650bhp, of course. This is the new Bentley Continental GT Speed, the fastest and most outrageous version yet of Bentley’s svelte grand tourer.

The headline figure is that 650bhp powerplant, which is good enough to give the 2273kg GT Speed a top speed of 208mph and a 0-60mph time of just 3.5 seconds.

But that’s not the half of what makes this car so special. The Speed gets, for the first time on a Continental GT, a limited-slip differential at the rear with clever torque vectoring, and rear-wheel steering, which make what is a heavy, front-engined car (the W12 is 6.0-litres, don’t forget) much more dramatic and agile. This is a GT that likes to oversteer.

It’ll go on sale late in 2021 and we’ll drive it on the road nearer the time, but for now join Matt Prior on a few quick laps of the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit, as well as for a walkaround ‘unboxing’ view of some of the GT’s finer details.

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There are two very cool, very new luxury saloons in town.

One is the 2021 Mercedes-Benz S-Class, the one they throw all the technology at to make it widely regarded as the best big saloon/sedan/whatever you’d like to call it. S-Classes come with all kinds of engine, right up to and including very powerful petrol ones, but this is a little more straightforward – it’s an S400d. Actually an engine that suits it rather well. It costs £104,425, has 330hp and more importantly a mammoth cruising range.

The other car is still relatively new too, and it’s more expensive and luxurious still. It’s a Bentley Flying Spur and as a W12 it costs £168,300 and has 635bhp – figures both rather bigger than the S-Class’s, but don’t let semantics get in the way – more expensive S-Classes are available and a cheaper Flying Spurs are too (besides, there’s a reason for the mis-match explained in the vid).

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We had another Bentley vid recently. Just coincidence really. But here’s a Bentayga taking on a Range Rover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTtFhc8HEU0

And here’s a Continental GT and a BMW M8 Competition battling to take on the world’s best sports car, Porsche’s 911: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jY9ZI6Woec

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