There was a time when a fast-car badge meant the engineers had been allowed into the workshop with stiffer springs, larger brakes and a mildly antisocial attitude. The new Vauxhall Astra GSE Line begins with…
A car factory does not celebrate its 40th birthday with cake and misty-eyed stories about the Bluebird. It celebrates by getting another car to build. That is why the Nissan Kicks matters: beneath the chirpy…
Most new cars arrive promising to make your life more exciting. London’s next black cab has a harder assignment: make everybody else’s life less difficult. It must swallow a wheelchair, survive a professional driver’s working…
A McLaren SUV is coming. You may now perform the traditional enthusiast ritual: sigh, mutter something about Colin Chapman and pretend Porsche did not settle this argument more than two decades ago. Then look beyond…
Volkswagen has spent 50 years teaching us that a GTI should make ordinary journeys feel mildly conspiratorial. The shopping still fits in the boot, your neighbours see a sensible hatchback, yet the driver knows there…
Camouflage is apparently too ordinary for Mercedes-Benz. To preview the next Sprinter, it has buried the van’s shape inside a vast stone-effect sculpture called THE BOuLDER. Subtle? About as subtle as parking a quarry in…
Britain’s electric-car argument has spent years obsessing over charging stops, winter range and whether anyone really needs a screen to open the glovebox. The Tesla Semi makes all of that feel rather small. Here is…
Vans have spent a century growing more comfortable for the person behind the wheel. Stellantis has now skipped to the obvious conclusion: get rid of the person altogether. Its BOW concept — short for Box-on-Wheels…
Electric vans often arrive wrapped in the language of disruption, then reveal themselves to be familiar boxes with a battery and a touchscreen the size of a chopping board. The Kia PV7 is more interesting…
Electric cars have spent years swaggering into the room with ever larger batteries, ever sillier power figures and kerbweights best discussed in hushed tones. Volkswagen’s Mission Efficiency arrives with a more interesting boast: what if…
