Road Cars

This is not a story I’d intended to write. I’d turned up to drive the new BMW X1 crossover SUV but was told that if I wanted to, I could…

The fastest street car at the race track.” That’s the goal for the Praga Bohema, the latest entrant into an oddly bustling marketplace: the £1m-plus plaything. But this one is…

The radical Mercedes-AMG One has already started to make its mark in the history books by obliterating the lap record for a production car at the Nürburgring Nordschleife recently. The…

The Mercedes-AMG One has just taken the record of the fastest road-legal car to lap the Nürburgring but, as manufacturers continue to chase the mythical crown, Andrew Frankel worries that the pressure and risks are becoming overwhelming

Ford's decision to axe its bestselling, highly acclaimed Fiesta was inevitable, in the face of rising costs, changing tastes and electric legislation writes Andrew Frankel

It was, on reflection, the only way Porsche could go. It couldn’t make its new 911 GT3 RS more powerful while retaining a naturally aspirated and legally compliant engine, nor…

Now owned by the Chinese conglomerate SAIC, we expect MGs to be affordable and this one is. We expect them to be well equipped for the money too and it…

Volkswagen may be having a tough time with its mainstream products, the eighth generation Golf and electric ‘ID’ models having not exactly gained the rapturous receptions that VW would have…

A unique collection of some of the greatest GT cars in history is set to go under the hammer at RM Sotheby’s forthcoming London sale (November 5), with the assets…

The new Lotus Evija Fittipaldi electric hypercar commemorates 50 years since the Brazilian's F1 title, and uses material from original Type 72

Sometime before the end of the year someone is going to ask me to write a piece about the car that impressed me most over the previous 12 months. And…

Did any car ever try to be more things to more people than this? VW’s new ID 5 is an SUV and a crossover, a coupé, a hatchback and an…

What is more frustrating in a road car: too much performance or not enough? The answer seems simple enough: too much performance provides the option not to use it all,…

F1 is set to use sustainable fuel by 2026 – but, thanks to former Mercedes tech chief Paddy Lowe's Zero Petroleum, it's already being used elsewhere

The front wings curve and curl ahead of you, the monstrous V12 bellows and barks behind you. The revs keep rising: 7000, 8000, 9000rpm. This is getting ridiculous. But it’s…

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…