Suzuki has looked at the modern car industry’s favourite habits — enormous batteries, endless weight and software with the appetite of a Labrador at Sunday lunch — and decided it would rather stay small. Good.…
BMW has built one million full-fat M cars, and number 1,000,000 is gloriously unsubtle: an M3 Competition painted Fire Orange III. It looks like a highlighter pen with a mortgage. Yet the most important car…
The electric car has finally crashed through a psychological barrier without arriving on tiny wheels, with four seats and the luggage capacity of a coat pocket. Hyundai’s new IONIQ 3 can now cost £18,495 after…
Car makers adore a moody special edition. Paint everything black, invent a nocturnal name and wait for the finance calculators to start humming. MINI has followed the recipe with the Countryman SE Midnight Edition, then…
Passing the driving test has always produced a slightly ridiculous overnight transformation. At 10am you need an adult beside you; by lunchtime you can load the car with excitable mates and point it into the…
At £16,499, the Suzuki Swift has remembered something the car industry misplaced: a small car should come with a small-car price. That should not feel revolutionary. In 2026, after years of superminis swelling in size,…
The new Hyundai Tucson has a 17-inch touchscreen, AI voice control and headlights containing 25,600 LED pixels. Fine. The feature that deserves applause is a rear door that opens to 83 degrees. That extra ten…
There are few more pointless sounds than an idling engine outside a school: a small mechanical grumble announcing that somebody would rather burn fuel than turn a key. Wales has now attached a larger price…
BMW has given the X3 M50 xDrive another 45hp, which is the sort of engineering decision we can support without calling an emergency meeting. It has also created a Black Package full of dark badges,…
Britain has pulled off a small but impressive magic trick: remove five per cent VAT from domestic electricity and still make the average capped unit price go up. If your electric car charges on the…
