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Video | Is the Skoda Enyaq vRS the ultimate one-car garage?
Looking for the perfect blend of weekday skills and weekend thrills? This electric family SUV could be the answer The perfect two-car garage. It’s a fantasy motoring enthusiasts have debated for decades. Not familiar…
I own a classic Alpine A110 and a new one - guess which I'd keep
Roger Hick scoured France to find his dream A110 – and then he found it in Milton Keynes "Alpine comes first in the name, as in Alpine Renault. There's never been a Renault Alpine." So says Roger Hick, with sufficient…
Ford Fathom: name confirmed for £21k 'skunkworks' EV
Landmark pick-up truck moves a step closer to US launch – and will offer more space than a Toyota RAV4 Ford's moonshot electric pick-up will be called the Fathom and be priced from $28,350 (£21,000) when launched in the…
Bugatti Destrier: New W16 hypercar inspired by 'most beautiful car ever'
Firm's latest Solitaire one-off uses Bolide underpinnings to allow strikingly elegant, low-rise design Bugatti has unwrapped the Destrier as its tribute to "the most beautiful car ever built", using the underpinnings of…
A six-seat mini MPV? Remembering the oddball original Fiat Multipla
Small but mighty Multipla could seat six The 600 Multipla showed just what was possible in a small car, but was it actually the first MPV? Manufacturers often make dubious claims in their marketing. For instance, in…
Win the chance to experience Skoda's next generation of EVs
Be among the first in the UK to see the all-new Skoda Peaq up close... Sign up today for your chance to attend our exclusive event on 2 September Want to be among the first in the UK to experience Skoda's next…
Electric AMG GT 4-Door gains cheaper 53 variant – with straight six noises
New dual-motor model trades performance and two synthesised cylinders for lower price and big range boost Mercedes-AMG has expanded its GT 4-Door Coupé line-up with the 53, a lower-powered and more affordable version of…
'Get used to uncertainty', fleet bosses told
Unstable policy, shifting tech and complex operations are the new normal, says one of UK's leading fleet bosses Fleet managers need to prepare for years of unstable policy, shifting technology and complex operations,…
Why history shows that Range Rover can rival Rolls-Royce
One of Overfinch's Holland and Holland Range Rovers was sold for more than £1m The British brand's decades of heritage holds plenty of appeal for the ultra-wealthy So, the $500,000 (£410,000) Range Rover is upon us -…
Range Rover: 'the sky's the limit' for price of bespoke models
Asilomar Edition is the most expensive factory-made Range Rover yet Brand will focus on the "big business" of high-value commissions, mirroring luxury rivals JLR has said "the sky is the limit" for Range Rover pricing,…
Amalfi Spider: Epic Greek blast in Ferrari's £227k 'entry' drop-top
Replacement for the Roma Spider promises not only more speed, but extra refinement and, ahem, stability We dubbed it Honey Mountain. Ferrari ’s events team, whose carefully prescribed route we plain ignored, would…
Who is China really stealing sales from?
It's not the easy prey at the bottom but some mid-market stalwarts that are losing out On the face of it, the UK new car market is a land of milk and honey again for car makers selling here, with sales up nearly 10%…
New Denza D9 is a £75k luxury MPV with plug-in hybrid power
Four-wheel-drive rival to Lexus LM is fourth model in Chinese luxury brand's expanding UK range BYD-owned luxury brand Denza is now taking orders for its fourth model, a luxury MPV to rival the Lexus LM and…
5 ways to prepare your car for the summer holidays
With temperatures topping 30°C again, now's the perfect time for your car's essential summer health check If it feels like this summer has barely let up, you're not imagining it. The UK has now recorded temperatures of…
EVs and hybrids drive UK car market to best July since Covid
Renault 5 (middle) was the UK's favourite EV in July Registrations of electric cars rose by 44.5% compared with July 2025 – although petrol cars are still on top Last month was the strongest July for new car sales in…
Used EV repair scheme looks to tackle cliff-edge residual drops
New BCA scheme aims to raise confidence in ex-fleet used EVs and make them more attractive to buyers BCA has opened an industry-first facility offering cost-effective battery repairs for de-fleeted electric and hybrid…
Chery Tiggo 4: is this the most car you can get for £20,000?
Chery bids to make up on lost time against other Chinese budget brands with a particularly low-budget hybrid SUV You may have read a great deal, over the last year or so, about the rising fortunes of Chinese budget…
Vauxhall Corsa GSE: New hot hatch outpaces Golf GTI for £9k less
Electric sports Corsa brings stiffer suspension, limited-slip differential and a series of retro nods The Vauxhall Corsa GSE will be quicker yet cheaper than the Volkswagen Golf GTI when it lands in the UK later this…
Cheap cars hit Tesla profits as tech pivot stalls
Cybercab roll-out in Austin, Texas, has faced delays Tesla's second-quarter profits slumped – despite it selling 10% more cars than a year ago Tesla's long-promised transition from car-making giant to AI-driven tech…
How BMW cut the X5's emissions by 40% – before turning a wheel
Around one third of the new iX5 is made from waste products or recycled materials Making cars greener involves a lot more than reducing tailpipe emissions or fashioning seat covers from recycled plastic bottles. It…
The Triumph TR7 is an overlooked sports car hero (yes, really)
Unreliability and bad quality scuppered the TR7, but there's so much to love about it What most people know about the Triumph TR7 of 1974-1981 is that it's a metaphor for the whole British car industry at the time: an…
Smart #2: Fortwo successor's design outed ahead of October debut
Smart returns to its city car roots with tiny new #2, due next year as UK's smallest electric car Smart has all but revealed the #2, the electric successor to the famed Fortwo , with a series of murals dotted around the…
Reborn Audi A2 driven: Electric comeback for the efficiency king
Effort to maximise efficiency on Volkswagen ID 3 platform results in unlikely electric revival of cult-classic supermini In one of the 2020s’ less likely retro revivals, the Audi A2 is back. The A2 has become a bit of…
Hennessey Blackbird brings 850bhp, manual 'box and no screens
New atmo V8 supercar promises focused driving experience and long range, inspired by famed spy plane American supercar maker Hennessey has revealed the wild Blackbird as its third all-new model, replacing the Venom F5…
Smile and wave: My Renault 4 got me into the happiest owner's club
It's a value crossover you can actually love - and owners are a cheery bunch Good news: Renault 4 drivers are wavers. How could they not be? It’s such a cheery car – and still being fairly new remains sufficiently…
Will Ferrari's synthesised gearbox really delight drivers?
Is a synthetic gearshift still satisfying if the mechanical link is missing? Ferrari thinks so Recently I went to Maranello to get educated about tech that goes deep into the petrolhead psyche. Nothing too dystopian:…
Seven ways to save money on EV charging
Volatile energy prices have made charging much pricier in recent years – so how can company car drivers keep a lid on their costs? Electric vehicles have come a long way in the last ten years. With longer ranges, lower…
Alpine aims to be "more niche than Porsche" with six-car line-up
Alpine "will need" as many as six models, despite plans to keep its range slim Alpine is devising a full six-car line-up – but won't launch any new models after the forthcoming electric A110 until at least 2030. Alpine…
Dacia Bigster 17,000-mile test: The only car you need – for £30k
How good really is Dacia's new flagship SUV, and is it better than the Duster? You will have noticed this, but I'll say it anyway: aren't cars expensive these days? Rarely a press loan goes by without a friend spitting…
Chinese car makers all share parts - will the world follow?
"Everyone has the same door handle": how Chinese firms build cars so cheaply There's a simple but crucial secret behind how the Chinese brands have managed to develop cars so quickly at costs much lower than those faced…
Used Mercedes A-Class: Posh hatch is a catch from just £5k
Merc's third-gen hatch hit the ground running as a premium Golf rival - now it's available from £2000 The A-Class was a case of third time lucky for Mercedes - at least in terms of making a profit. The groundbreaking…
Ultimate sleepers: Can new Citroen campervan beat VW California?
The new Citroen Holidays is here to challenge an Autocar favourite for campsite supremacy Few cars unite the writers of this magazine—or loom so large in many of our money-no-object garages—as a 2.4-tonne,…
Snorkel, winches... missile launcher? Here's my mad homebuilt 4x4
This Frankenstein's monster of a vehicle is based on a Suzuki, but you wouldn't know it Andy Racher's dinky-size 4x4 is an example of what happens when you give two blokes a welding torch and a load of thin-gauge…
Is Alfa Romeo the only brand that can sell cars for £30k and £1.4m?
Line-up ranges from Junior to 33 Stradale hypercar - but not everyone could achieve that spread Which brands, a colleague wondered, could retail a car at under thirty grand but also, like Alfa Romeo, launch a…
243mph on public roads: meet the world's maddest motorsport event
The Silver State Challenge is a motorsport event like no other. We head to Nevada to join in There aren't many places left where you can legally drive at more than 200mph on a public road. I've come to one of the…
Ignore Jay Leno: Your dream garage only needs three cars
Jay Leno's Garage is a dream, but does he actually have too many cars? | Getty Images I've got an old Mini Cooper S and BMW 3 Series Touring, but my next car might be something wildly different A popular pastime among…
Mercedes: Big screens stay but we went "too far" removing buttons
Mercedes' screens can span the entire width of a dashboard The industry isn't yet at 'peak screen' but has hit 'low button', says Ola Källenius Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Källenius says touchscreens in cars could continue to…
BYD goes after Defender with boxy £48k, 402bhp hybrid SUV
Rugged-looking Ti7 goes on sale in the UK as Chinese brand's new flagship The BYD Ti7 has gone on sale in the UK as the Chinese brand's biggest model, priced from £47,995. Sized between the 110 and 130 variants of the…
Lexus ES verdict: Spirit of the LS lives on in £68k EV
Lexus's eighth-generation ES becomes its one and only big executive saloon – and goes all-electric to boot. Lexus is one of those car brands that slowly seems to be morphing into an SUV specialist almost by force…
New models vital to DS' survival as UK sales hit record low
DS sold just 112 cars in the UK during the first half of 2026, down from 948 a year ago DS is poised to introduce two crucial new models in the UK – the N°3 supermini and N°7 crossover – as it begins a fightback after…
Porsche 911 Turbo S tested: A 200mph hypercar for the real world
Celebrated giant-killing ‘super-Porsche’ enters the electrified era Versatility is a strange concept to find as a core quality at the heart of a 200mph super-sports car. Yet that is how the Porsche 911 Turbo has been…