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Hummer’s don’t hum. Infinitis don’t go on for ever. Genesis’s (Genesii?) haven’t been here from the start. Smart’s once were but are no longer. And Mini’s aren’t. No, car firms don’t fret about living up to their names. The Countryman is the biggest Mini there’s ever been. Have an electric one and it’s also the…

Citroen is making a new electric car using the name and inspiration from one of its most famous old ones. Makes sense in a world of rebigulated Renault 5s and Mini Coopers and Ford Capris and Vauxhall Fronteras and so on. Because with over a century’s worth of heritage just sitting there collecting dust, the…

Hard to imagine, as you clutch a melty Cornetto in 35-degree heat, but I’ve been skiing. OK, I went skiing back at the beginning of April (essentially the last week of the season before the Alps turn into one giant Slush Puppie), but I drove there in the Ioniq 9 – a car which, apart…

In the ’50s and ’60s, when fuel was cheap and space was plentiful, Americans that still wanted a small, fuel efficient car were seriously underserved, and the original Beetle pretty much had a monopoly on the market. The combination of its affordability and simplicity, a genius and sometimes self-deprecating ad campaign and its status as…

There was a time when we could say BMW is a company that builds grilles and does a healthy side business flogging them on the front of some cars. But things be different now. The neue Neue Klasse has introduced something new, and today we learn just how much that newness will cost. For its…

Technically an electric V-Class van. Except completely not – it’s as similar to the V-Class as a tortoise is to a jump jet. Completely new, it’s a mixed material monocoque called VAN.EA as a platform – lots of aluminium – powered by a 115kWh of your finest NMC battery, giving upwards of 400-miles of WLTP range.…

It’s already facelift time for the Maserati GranTurismo and GranCabrio. Having arrived in 2022 and 2023 respectively, the two grand tourers have been bundled together for a refresh. Maserati actually calls it a “strategic update” with the design bringing the pair in line with the look of the MCPura supercar. And yes, that was previously…

It’s a kei car in the UK! A what car? It’s short for kei-jidōsha, which translates to ‘light vehicle’. It’s the class of car introduced in Japan just after World War Two to get the market back on its feet, but it’s still going strong today. The dinky Honda N-Box has been the best-selling car…

I found out the other day that my i8 has just turned 10. Although it was first registered in March 2017, it was actually built in January 2016. I just hope it wasn’t languishing in a field for 14 months. Next month maybe I’ll find out, as it’s off to BMW UK for a good…

What’s this giant van on my screen? Ah yes, well in another life it could have just been a bog-standard Volkswagen Crafter panel van, but this particular one got lucky along the line and was selected for transformation into the really rather premium and recently facelifted Grand California 600 campervan. Fancy! So what happens to…