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Strange fruit: driving the Mini-based Outspan Orange

Yes, it’s a monocoque, like an F1 car In its 60 years of existence, the Mini has taken many forms to promote products. We drive the best known – one with true a-peel Cars shaped as foodstuffs – there have been quite a few. We’ve had cars shaped like sausages, creme-filled chocolate eggs, cheese burgers, […]

The smart money: PCP deals vs used cars

PCPs may rule in showrooms, but buying used is smarter. We've picked second hand alternatives to every kind of new car No one buys new cars any more – at least not with their own money. Apparently the smart people invest their hard-earned in a Personal Contract Purchase (PCP), which allows them to put a […]

Audi to unveil AI:Trail quattro electric off-roader at Frankfurt

Audi AI:Trail The off-road machine will be the fourth in a series of electric concept cars from Audi Audi will showcase an electric off-road concept car called the AI:Trail quattro at this year’s Frankfurt motor show. The firm has released a single teaser image of the machine, and has simply described it as “an electrically […]

Skoda Kamiq 1.0 TSI 115 DSG 2019 review

Skoda has used its supermini platform to create a practical compact crossover; we test it with the mid-level petrol engine This is the Skoda Kamiq: a compact crossover hatchback whose headlights are upside down. That might be the most daring and enigmatic thing about this new car, which is set to join bigger SUV-ish brothers the […]

Toyota GR Supra

Iconic Japanese performance nameplate returns after years in the wilderness It’s impossible to talk about the new Toyota Supra, which arrives some 25 years after the fourth-generation, cult-hit ‘A80’ car was launched, without talking also about BMW. So we may as well get it out of the way now, before turning to the more important […]

Donkervoort to unveil hardcore, sub-700kg JD70

D8 GTO-based commemorative edition packs a 2.5-litre turbocharged Audi engine and will cost less than £150,000 Dutch car maker Donkervoort has previewed the JD70 – a supercar designed to celebrate the 70th birthday of company founder Joop Donkervoort. The D8 GTO-JD70, as its name suggests, is an evolution of the D8 GTO sports car that was released in […]

Lynk&Co 03 Cyan Concept is fastest four-door at Nurburgring

Lynk&Co’s road-legal version of World Touring Car racer beats Jaguar XE SV Project 8 – albeit in concept guise World Touring Car team Cyan Racing claims to have broken the front-wheel-drive and four-door lap records at the Nürburgring with its Lynk&Co 03 Cyan Concept. A lap time of 7min 20.143sec marks a three-second improvement over Jaguar’s […]

Buy them before we do: second-hand picks for 23 August

Corrado's handsome angular bodywork can fall victim to rust, so get the torch out New, the Volkswagen Corrado was referred to as 'the people's Porsche', which means you don't pay over the odds today At the last count Volkswagen had five SUVs in its ranks but, if you ignore its R and GTI models, no […]

Matt Prior: Why sharing is caring for rival carmakers

Huge expense of EV tech is causing car makers to team up The radical reinvention of the car as we know it has forced companies to support eachother in uncertain times One of the first things I wrote in this game was a feature linking all car manufacturers to each other through their joint ventures […]

New Porsche Taycan: electric four-door's interior revealed

Tesla Model S rival gets a total of four screens to make it the most connected and high-tech car Porsche has made Porsche has revealed the interior of its first electric production car, the Taycan, ahead of its public debut at the Frankfurt motor show next month. The Tesla Model S rival's cabin takes the […]

Fiat 124 Spider successor 'unlikely', according to CEO

Fiat's boss claims Italian maker has "no legitimacy" in the sports car market after 124 Spider was removed from sale A new version of the Fiat and Abarth 124 Spider is unlikely, according to Fiat CEO Olivier François. Although the Fiat and Abarth 124 Spiders have been withdrawn from UK sale, both loss makers here, […]

AC Schnitzer ACS2 Sport 'Competition' 2019 review

Aachen tuner turns its attention to – and turns up the wick on – the sweetest-handling M car currently on sale AC Schnitzer has been modifying all manner of BMW cars since an E32 7 Series conversion labelled ACS7 appeared at the 1987 Frankfurt motor show. The Schnitzer name actually goes back much further than that, to […]

Mercedes-AMG GLE 63 Coupe tests ahead of 2020 launch

New-generation Porsche Cayenne Coupé rival is set to take power from the E63’s twin-turbocharged 4.0-litre V8 The new Mercedes-AMG GLE 63 and GLE 63 Coupé, due to be revealed later this year, will use the same twin-turbocharged 4.0-litre petrol V8 as the current E63 performance saloon, pumping out up to 604bhp and 627lb ft. Our spy photographers […]

Car ownership “not compatible” with emissions targets

Government science and technology committee claims even EVs won't help to achieve targets and calls for petrol and diesel ban to be brought forward Private car ownership needs to end and vehicle use should be cut if the UK is to become a carbon-neutral country by 2050, a committee of MPs has claimed. A scathing […]

Autocar Heroes: Greatest Porsche GTs - new Cayman GT4 meets GT3 RS and GT2 RS

Which is the best Weissach-developed Porsche of the last decade? Is it a 911 - or does the new Cayman GT4 take top honours? We've been finding out Porsche has been making GT cars for 20 years, and its latest offering is the 2020 Porsche Cayman GT4 - its mid-engined sports car which returns with […]

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