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It’s a Polo. Recognisably, even if you peeled all the badges off, a VW Polo. That’s what’s important about the new Volkswagen ID. Polo. This is an all-new electric supermini, but VW hasn’t made it a streamlined future-box like it tried with the ID.3. The ID. Polo has a bonnet. A face. A normal Polo…

A Chinese vacuum cleaner company wants to attach rockets to its electric hypercar to do 0-62mph in less than one second

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Chinese tech company Dreame Technology spends most of its time building robot vacuum cleaners, coffee machines and hairdryers, but at CES earlier in the year it unveiled an all-electric hypercar concept called the Nebula NEXT 01, with claims of nearly 1,900bhp. ‘Yeah right’ was the gist of what we thought back then, and that didn’t…

This is the new Ferrari Purosangue Handling Speciale: a V12 with more… handling

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If you’re a fan of the Ferrari Purosangue but are of the opinion that Maranello’s first ever four-door, four-seat V12 needs a little… more – Purosangue-er? – then we have welcome news. This is the Handling Speciale. No, it’s not that kind of speciale. Instead, it is an optional goodie bag of treats that enhance…

Porsche 911 GT3 Manthey review: expensive, but the suspension is utterly phenomenal…

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I can’t take that seriously. It’s got carbon wheel spats. It does. But you don’t have to have them. They remove with an allen key. Or you can avoid buying them in the first place. There’s a fair bit to unpack here – as a Porsche technician might mutter to themselves. So what are the…

Drive to survive! McLaren now sells golf clubs

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Precision engineering, cutting-edge materials… overpaid operators. When you think about it, supercars, F1 race cars and golf clubs have quite a bit in common. Throw in the fact Zak Brown (CEO, McLaren Racing) and Lando Norris are self-confessed golf obsessives, and it was only a matter of time before McLaren launched its latest venture –…

Toyota Prius – long-term review

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Well, it happened. The nightmare scenario for the charging-at-home hybrid/EV driver. Particularly in the early stages of a fuel-panic. My wallbox charger packed up. What broke it, funnily enough, was Editor Jack’s Maserati GranTurismo Folgore. I had relegated the Prius to the kerb and plugged the big Maser in for an overnight charge. A few…

The Range Rover SV Ultra is the most Range Rovery modern Range Rover

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Welcome to the summit of Mount Range Rover. At this heady height you will find the Range Rover SV Ultra, a car its maker claims is no less than the “pinnacle of Range Rover luxury”. It’s the toppiest, highest-spec, ahem, range-topping Range Rover ever, offered as a 3.0-litre straight-six plug in hybrid with a P550e…

Renault wants this fan-built R5 Turbo 3E to become an official Lego set

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The Renault 5 Turbo 3E is a fantastically bonkers hot hatch with carbon bucket seats, a hydraulic handbrake and two in-wheel electric motors out back that make a total of 547bhp. It also has brilliantly boxy arches that are stuck on the sides of the current R5’s retrotastic body, and not only does that make…

Here are nine cars with brilliant side exit exhausts

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Mad-looking car. Mad-looking exhausts. TVR’s raucous 4.0-litre straight-six was liable to burn the ankles of onlookers, and the fingers of drivers when the savage power overwhelming the rear tyres. If you stand by the side of a Viper while it revs, you’re only being treated to the sound of five cylinders because each bank of…

Caterham has built a special limited edition Seven R for the Miami Grand Prix

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