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BTCC 2021: Race-winner Ingram in Hyundai i30 Fastback N switch

Long-time Speedworks Toyota racer secures switch to Excelr8 squad for 2021 British Touring Car Championship race winner Tom Ingram will switch from a Toyota Corolla to a Hyundai i30 Fastback N this season, after agreeing a multi-year deal with Excelr8 Trade Price Cars. Ingram has spent his entire seven-year BTCC career with Speedworks Motorsport, earning […]

Top 10 best family SUVs 2020

Numerous premium brands claim they make the best family SUV but we can now put that argument to rest with our definitive top 10 list Dominated by premium offerings, this chart is populated by some of the best family cars on the road – vehicles that can cope with the school run as well as […]

Top 10 best family hatchbacks 2020

Stylish, well-equipped and with an engine to suit every requirement, the family hatchback segment remains one of the market's most important. But which make our top 10? The traditional family hatchback segment might not be the market's fastest-growing, but it remains one of the most important and hotly contested. WIthin it, class stalwarts are reinventing themselves all the time, while brand-new […]

Seat Tarraco gains 242bhp four-wheel-drive petrol option

Turbocharged 2.0-litre engine from Volkswagen Golf GTI is good for 0-62mph in 6.2sec in seven-seat SUV The Tarraco, Seat's largest model, is now available with the same 242bhp turbo petrol engine as the Cupra Leon and Volkswagen Golf GTI. Paired with the same seven-speed dual-clutch automatic gearbox as it is in those hot hatchbacks but pushing its 273lb ft of […]

Racing lines: New 365bhp R1 racer leads Praga's UK return

New golden era beckons for a pre-war engineering heavy-hitter Heavy-duty trucks, motorcycles, cars, tractors, boats, aeroplanes, tanks, redoubtable gearboxes and, in recent decades, market-leading karts. These have all been a part of the colourful patchwork that is Czech engineering all-rounder Praga, which is now forging ahead with an ambitious plan to stamp its mark on […]

New Mercedes-Benz EQA revealed as sub-£40k electric crossover

GLA-based EV makes its debut in EQA 250 form, with future variants promising up to 311 miles of range and AMG performance tuning The new Mercedes-Benz EQA is the German brand's first fully electric compact model and is said to provide an "excellent compromise between performance, costs and time to market". Set to go on […]

New 2021 Vauxhall Combo-e arrives with 171-mile range

Small electric van shares a drivetrain with the Corsa-e supermini and will be available in MPV form The new fully electric version of Vauxhall's small Combo van is due in showrooms this autumn and will spawn a mechanically identical passenger-carrying variant. Arriving alongside closely related vans from PSA Group siblings Citroën and Peugeot, the Combo-e sits […]

Autocar magazine 20 January - on sale now

This week: Renault 5 revived as electric supermini, Mercedes-Benz EQA driven, the evolution of car cockpit design and more The Renault 5 is set for a radical reimagining as an electric supermini, as part of a major product offensive from the French brand. Set to go into production in 2023, the compact EV takes design […]

Analysis: electric car charging is still hit and miss

Ionity provides by far the fastest chargers in the UK, at 350kW Myriad suppliers, complex payment processes and unreliability make it a gamble The axiom that new technology is created to make our lives easier seems to have been ignored when establishing the UK’s electric vehicle charging network. The patchwork of dozens of different operators, […]

Season preview: 2021 World Rally Championship

Ahead of this weekend’s Monte Carlo Rally, we look at who’s the favourite to lift the 2021 WRC crown The 2021 World Rally Championship has got off to a complicated start even before the first stage of the Monte Carlo Rally. Rally Sweden is gone, replaced by the Arctic Rally: an event so good they’re […]

Porsche Taycan: new rear-driven base model takes price to £70k

Base Taycan comes to European markets with up to 469bhp, reducing entry price to EV by £13,000 Porsche has expanded its Taycan electric sports saloon line-up in Europe with a new entry-level, rear-wheel-drive model. The entry-level model, first made available in China last summer, is simply badged Taycan. It brings the starting price of the EV down by around […]

New 2021 Hyundai Bayon previewed ahead of imminent reveal

New arrival will sit underneath the Kona as the entry point in Hyundai's burgeoning SUV range Hyundai has previewed the design of its new Bayon, an entry-level SUV that will arrive in the first half of 2021 to rival the Toyota Yaris Cross and Ford Puma. It is the first production car designed under the brand's […]

Management structure of 14-brand Stellantis company detailed

Brit Linda Jackson takes the helm at Peugeot as Jean-Philippe Imparato heads to Alfa Romeo Stellantis, the car-making giant formed by the merger of the PSA Group and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), will embrace the diversity of its staff and brands as a strength rather than a weakness, according to boss Carlos Tavares. The new company […]

Stellantis boss warns 2030 ban could close Vauxhall UK factory

Carlos Tavares says a decision on the future of Vauxhall's Ellesmere Port plant is imminent Stellantis boss Carlos Tavares has said the firm will decide the fate of Vauxhall’s Ellesmere Port plant in the coming weeks - warning that the UK government’s "brutal" decision to ban the sale of new ICE cars from 2030 could “destroy the […]

Ex-Aston Martin boss: "Build batteries or lose UK car industry"

Dr Andy Palmer warns Prime Minister that ‘rules of origin’ make UK battery production vital after Brexit An urgent plan to build four battery ‘gigafactories’ in the UK within the next five years is vital to avoid losing the entire UK automotive industry, according to former Aston Martin boss and Nissan product planning chief Dr Andy Palmer. […]