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This is another immensely impressive entry from a brand that can do little wrong of late. As a big family car, it’s compelling: refined, interesting and preposterously spacious. It makes the cookie cutter crossovers that dominate our roads look cramped and unimaginative and makes the brilliant ID. Buzz look wildly overpriced. Read the full Kia…

The Renault Group has outlined its strategy for the next five years or so. In short, more new cars, with more focus on what the brands – Renault, Dacia, Alpine – mean to buyers. Plus more use of new tech in the cars themselves, and in their design and production. This plan comes nine months…

What the heck is that? No-one’s pretending this is a beautiful car. But it’s got a big place in history, and it’s also great to drive. It’s the 1989 Alfa Romeo S.Z. and gosh, I’ve always called it SZ but the full stops appear in one official Alfa book on my shelves but not another.…

In 2024, Porsche’s operating profit was €5.64bn. In 2025, that collapsed to €0.41bn. Which means the new boss – Michael Leiters, formerly Ferrari, formerly McLaren – has to make some fairly radical decisions. Chief among which include ‘streamlining’ the management structure and cutting back on ‘hierarchies’ and ‘bureaucracy’. Oh, and potentially introducing a new supercar…

As Alpina becomes engulfed by BMW, we’re throwing it back to 2009 and remembering six months with a modded diesel saloon. This article was originally published in Top Gear Magazine, April 2009 Can a four-cylinder diesel car ever be – to use a fine German pigeon-English word – ‘sportive’? I’ve never heard one that sounded…

The Mercedes EQV is dead. And yet, unless you run a posh airport taxi business in a part of the world that really doesn’t like diesel, that statement is hardly going to make much of an impact. Perhaps you will care about the EQV’s replacement though, because Mercedes itself describes this new VLE as a…

This is the Chery Tiggo 4. Now, we’re not really that interested in the Chery Tiggo 4, but we thought we ought to show it to you so that you can continue to recognise every single car on sale in the UK. We’ll be honest, that skill is getting trickier with every passing launch. You…

In short, this is a revolution for BMW, one of the world’s great car companies. The real significance of this new iX3 is to be the first out of the traps for a new generation of electric vehicles. And we mean completely new, from ground to cloud. BMW is calling them the New Class, or…

Watchmaking was a mixed bag in the 1970s. The arrival of quartz brought reliable watches for all, but also put loads of old companies out of business. To survive, you needed to up your game, and one of the decade’s many innovations is now enjoying a big revival. The integrated bracelet played a big part…

Dacia already makes a small, cheap (relatively speaking) electric car, and it’s called the Spring. Good one, too. But now it has announced that it is building an entirely new and different small, cheap (relatively speaking) electric car, and it’s called the… well, we don’t know yet. Chiefly because this small, cheap new electric car…