Britain has spent years encouraging drivers to buy electric cars while quietly handing the best running costs to anyone blessed with a driveway. Park behind your own front door and cheap overnight electricity is yours.…
Removing the roof from a hypercar is usually presented as a gift to the senses. It can also be a polite way of making an already extravagant machine heavier, wobblier and slightly less coherent. The…
The family SUV has discovered the outdoor shop. Suddenly every sensible school-runner wants squared wheelarches, a stern expression and enough black cladding to survive an argument with a hedge. Chery’s new Tiggo X7 joins that…
A small discount says “special offer”. A price cut approaching fifty grand says somebody has marched into the meeting room, put the old price list through a shredder and asked why an electric Maserati cost…
Nothing makes an electric car sound more irresistible than the promise of filling one for the price of a mediocre motorway coffee. E.ON Next’s latest headline rate is 6.5p per kWh, cheap enough to make…
Cars have spent the past decade acquiring screens with the enthusiasm of a teenager collecting gaming monitors. Now comes the inevitable second act: artificial intelligence promising to make those screens less annoying. Mazda is bringing…
Most “adventure” editions are a set of black badges trying desperately to look like a differential lock. Mitsubishi’s new Outlander Diamond Trail Edition has arrived with something rarer: evidence that an engineer was allowed into…
The motor industry keeps insisting that electric cars need more range, more power and considerably more acreage. Fiat’s Multiplina suggests a much more entertaining answer: perhaps they simply need more imagination. This small, four-seat EV…
Toyota has built the sort of prototype that makes badge obsessives reach for their boxing gloves. Is it a new MR2? A reborn Celica? Something else entirely? That argument is entertaining, but it is also…
Nothing ages a new car faster than its maker unveiling the replacement before the showroom balloons have gone flat. Chery’s Tiggo 7 has barely settled into British life, yet a fourth-generation version is already striding…