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“Urus is definitely a competitor. DBX definitely. Purosangue I’m not sure,” says McLaren Automotive’s COO Michael Straughan as he gives us our best steer yet on what to expect from the Brit carmaker’s upcoming SUV. “The Ferrari concept is very different to the rest of the competitive set. Wait until you see the styling of…

The recipe’s a simple but effective one: take one small car, bolt in a massive engine, strap in, hold on tight. This is the Rocketeer N/C: a Mk3 Mazda MX-5 with a Ford V6 stuffed in its nose. You’ll know this recipe from Rocketeer’s NA (Mk1 MX-5) and NB (Mk2) cars of course, so it’s…

Usually buying a grey car would be a safe move. A decision made with the head rather than the heart. Protect the resale value, and all that. Although, depreciation probably won’t be an issue with these three. Because yes, at the upcoming Broad Arrow Auctions sale at the Zoute Concours, interested parties will be able…

It’s the Geely Starray, yet another innocuous looking blob from China promising the complete package for a low price tag. If we had a penny for every time we’d heard that one… But wait! Far from being a little-known start-up that was founded five minutes ago, Geely is actually a huge megacorp that also owns…

Porsche has added a load of new options to the Cayenne Electric configurator for its new model year, the most interesting of which has to be the wireless charging pad. And no, we’re not talking about a tiny little wireless charger on the dashboard for your phone. This is wireless charging for the whole Cayenne.…

We’ll repeat that, because those words in that order don’t appear to make a lot of sense: Monaco – the F1 circuit famous for its lack of overtaking – will host an F1 Sprint race – a format predicated on an abundance of overtaking – in 2027. Right… The only logical explanation is that Formula…

Nissan will bring a car called ‘Kicks’ to Europe… along with another Twingo-sized thing called ‘Pixo’. We’ll see the latter next week. The former? Well, it’ll come as a shock that this car falls firmly into the category of ‘compact crossover’ – wonder if they’ll ever catch on? – motivated by Nissan’s ‘e-power’ hybrid drivetrain.…

McLaren has confirmed that it will invest £500m to expand its manufacturing and engineering operations in the UK, with the cash creating “at least 1,000 direct and indirect jobs across McLaren’s UK operations by 2032”. The investment (which forms part of a larger commitment by shareholder L’IMAD, a sovereign investor of the Government of Abu…

This is all the VW ID. Polo’s fault. Y’see, when Volkswagen announced it would make a hot hatch tearaway out of its new electric supermini – click here to see what we reckoned to the normal version – it insisted the ID. Polo was worthy of the three most special letters in the Volkswagen universe:…

Our Alfa Junior Ibrida arrived in top of the tree Sport Speciale trim with a gloss black body kit, the nose of a 1930s racer, and Alcantara on its seats, dash and flat-ish bottomed steering wheel. So, it looks the part, feels rather racey from the inside and has ‘sport’ in its name, but does…