The diesel pump has become a slot machine with terrible prizes. Feed it a card, watch the numbers whirl and leave with the same car you arrived in, only now your bank balance has developed…
The modern city car has developed a curious fear of cities. It grows wider, taller and heavier, then arrives at a multi-storey car park behaving like a sofa being pushed through a letterbox. The Smart…
The new Kia PV5 Chassis Cab arrives looking as though somebody forgot to finish it. Good. That exposed frame behind the cab is not an omission but an invitation: add a tipper, a refrigerated box,…
Electric-car charging has entered the part of the arms race where the numbers sound like industrial equipment. Geely’s new station claims a peak output of 2,250kW. That is 2.25 megawatts, enough to make today’s 150kW…
The Audi A6 e-tron has travelled 831 miles on one charge, which is excellent news for anyone whose daily commute takes 45 hours and crosses most of Poland. For everybody else, the number needs a…
Special editions inspired by expensive hobbies are dangerous waters. Add a logo, choose a nautical shade of grey and suddenly an ordinary car is expected to smell of sea air, polished teak and somebody else’s…
Car makers have become very good at raiding the attic. Usually they find an old badge, polish it with a marketing cloth and stick it onto a crossover. Renault has found something far more valuable:…
Hot hatchbacks usually advertise themselves like energy drinks: bright colours, loud badges and enough visual fizz to keep a teenager awake through double maths. The new Alpine A290 Collection tries something more difficult. It wants…
Removing the roof from a Mercedes-AMG G 63 is the sort of idea that normally arrives five minutes before closing time, accompanied by a marker pen and absolutely no adult supervision. Brabus has done it…
Somebody at Vauxhall has apparently looked across a car park full of swollen crossovers and remembered that an estate can carry a family without dressing like it is about to invade a gravel quarry. Good.…
