Road Cars

McLaren Automotive's reputation rebuild continues with its mooted SUV plans – but can it find the partner it needs to secure future?

Was 2022 the final chance for a supercar splurge? It was the performance cars that stuck in Andrew Frankel's mind this year

In 1968 Vic Elford won the Monte Carlo Rally in a Porsche 911 T, and a week later helped Porsche to its first ever 24-hour race win at Daytona. And…

It has, I am afraid, been a while. After the overwhelmingly adequate ID.3, 4 and 5, Volkswagen has finally done what it set out to do from the start and…

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,…