Car reviews

It may seem a strange thing to say about what is by no means the most powerful car in the line-up, but this new 420 Cup is the most extreme…

I love the idea of big Citroëns. Not long ago, the racing driver and motoring journalist Chris Harris turned up in a Citroën DS Safari and we had a wonderful…

No one listened to me when I argued that the reborn Fiat 500 was the most over-rated car of the last 15 years. And why should they? The little car…

This new Aston Martin DBX707 is the most powerful SUV on sale in the UK, and its very existence speaks volumes for the evolving nature of the relationship between the…

It seemed only right to go back. I was here 11 years ago in the very first product created by McLaren Automotive. Then I had no idea what to expect…

There’s something for lesser Audis to learn from this flagship saloon. How pleasing it is to see a truly rapid Audi that looks so visually discreet and which rides so…

What do the Range Rover and Porsche 911 have in common? Only that they have both been so successful that, like the shark which is reputed to have achieved perfect…

Right now, Toyota boasts three manual-transmission performance cars. Naming other carmakers who can claim the same is a depressingly short task. Porsche fits a stick to the Boxster, Cayman and…

The Lotus Emira has a difficult job ahead of it. Fated to be the last Lotus powered by an internal combustion engine, it must live up to those expectations and…

Now that Volkswagen has made the latest Golf so much harder to love, and at least until I drive the new and attractive Vauxhall Astra, it is once more the…

Amid the understandable fuss that has been made about the Porsche Taycan of late, it’s easy to forget it’s not the only four-door family car selling either side of the…

I’ve always been highly suspicious of plug-in hybrids. Never got my head around having two different ‘engines’ yet spending almost all your time with one or other switched off, a…

After four years proving that critical acclaim is no guarantee of commercial success, the rapturously received but still slow-selling Alpine A110 has had its mid-life facelift. Not that you’d notice:…

You can spin the story of this car in two quite different ways. The easily pleased will point to the fact that here is an ‘M-performance’ 2 Series with near…

Earlier in the year I drove the new BMW i4 M50, the first BMW to marry what some might regard as the competing interests of its ‘i’ and ‘M’ brands.…

The new Porsche Cayman GT4 RS is, put in simplest terms, a Cayman GT4 with the engine from a 911 GT3, and that begs a rather interesting question: if the…

The svelte shape in front of you is many things: the first Mercedes EV to be developed from scratch as an EV, and an indicative pointer into Benz’s EV future…