The best travel flask for your next car journey

If you've ever pulled into a drive-through and ordered a coffee you'll see how expensive it is. Even a simple Americano (black coffee) can cost £4, not a lot compared to a laptop or holiday but a lot more than a fancy home coffee kit.

Indeed we found that for £8.95 (the price of two, maybe three black coffees to go) you could buy a bag of fairly sourced coffee that tastes like bourbons and will make 15 cups of coffee.

The thing is, unless you have a pair of hamster cheeks you'll need something to keep that coffee from sloshing about all over your car as you drive to work. Thankfully there are plenty of awesome, good-quality flasks available that will keep your coffee warm even if your daily commute is from Paris to Peckham.

The best travel flasks

How the CAR team likes its coffee

Never one to do things easily the CAR team has a vast array of coffee-making devices that look like a mixture between a steampunk kettle and an extra from the set of Red Dwarf. But if there's one thing car journos know about (other than cars), it's coffee, so here are our top coffee picks.

Adam Binnie - " I use an Aeropress because it's a perfect storm of high strength brewing, low acidity and next to no washing up (you literally fire a puck of squeezed grounds into the compost bin), which results in a huge satisfaction-to-faff ratio. It also means a robust brew that stands up to being kept warm for several hours in a flask - emerging from the container several hours after being poured, it still tastes as fresh as simply balling a handful of coffee beans straight into your mouth."

Ryan Gilmore - "My coffee machine buying problem continues to be a blight on any available worktop space in my kitchen. The latest development is the simplicity of a dripper that produces some excellent tasting coffee without the need for prep and easy cleanup. The paper filter holds the left offer coffee grounds and can be placed into the compost after use. I use a medium ground coffee and the genius of the drip is that I can pour it directly into a flask."

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