Car reviews

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…

You may already have chanced across the review of the Bentley on the previous page and while that is a British plug-in electric limousine, and this a German, exclusively petrol-powered…

No, I have no idea what they were thinking when they styled it either, but this is another one of those impossibly brave BMWs we’ve seen from time to time.…

In 1931, desperately in need of a powertrain that cost less to build and run in the wake of a rapidly changing world that had turned against gas-guzzling motors, Bentley…

When I was a child, I lived in an almost entirely Alfa-centric world. There were Giulias, Berlinas, Alfettas, ’Suds, one after the other from the late 1960s to the mid-…