Britain has never looked short of sensible performance cars. We can supply hot hatchbacks for damp B-roads, fast estates for Labrador owners and enough German super-saloons to make every motorway slip road feel like a…
The weather has delayed the Tesla Roadster. On any normal car launch, that would be a footnote: move the chairs indoors, protect the sandwiches and try again when the clouds have cleared. With the Roadster,…
The new Honda Prelude has always looked as though it should be parked outside a tasteful modern house, probably beside a gravel driveway that nobody has ever attempted to handbrake-turn on. Its new Limited Edition…
Alpine has revealed its next A110 by hiding it. That sounds like the sort of contradiction only a car company could deliver with a straight face, but the blue-draped sculpture previewing the third-generation sports car…
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…
