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Kia has announced that its smallest – and in its own words, ‘affordable’ – EV2 will cost from £24,245, ahead of its arrival later this year. That includes a £3,750 ‘Reservation Saving’, while the carmaker awaits confirmation that it’ll be eligible for the UK Government’s Electric Car Grant. Course, we’ve already driven it, concluding it…

Toyota 2000GT review: ‘a solid gold high spot for one of the world’s most important carmakers’

Apr 1, 2026

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What’s this all about? In May 2001, in a quiet corner of Toyota Motor Co’s engineering department, the project head of a proposed sports car, Haruhiko Tanahashi, wrote the internal briefing document to explain his car’s aims to the top management. So it had to be persuasive. On the cover was a Toyota F1 car…

Good grief! This is a V8-engined, 200mph Can-Am car for the road

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Well, here’s something we didn’t expect to see today. Lola has announced a continuation project that’ll see it build 16 completely new examples of the iconic T70 sports prototype from the late 1960s. And here’s the best bit… there will be a version that’s completely road legal. Yep, the ‘new’ car is called the T70S…

Mercedes has facelifted its giant GLS and fitted a flat-plane crank V8

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Not content with updating all of the different GLEs in one day, Mercedes has also announced a mid-life crisis… sorry, update… for its ginormous GLS. The current GLS is getting on a bit having initially launched way back in 2019, but much like its smaller sibling it was updated in 2023 with new lights, bumpers…

The Freelander is back! JLR and Chery revive the old 4×4, but this time as its own brand

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Two years after promising to revive the Land Rover Freelander but without calling it ‘a Land Rover’, we’ve been given our first look at the, um, Not a Land Rover Freelander. The product of a joint venture between JLR and Chery (y’know, the one related to Omoda and Jaecoo and so many others) obviously our…

The updated Mercedes GLE features many, many stars

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The current generation GLE arrived way back in 2018 and was first facelifted in early 2023, but Mercedes has now seen fit to update it again with many stars and massive screens. Bringing it in line with the rest of the range, then. As you can see from the images above, there are new bumpers,…

The future is finally here! Fast-charging, lightweight solid-state batteries have arrived

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Gosh, it looks like one of the car world’s long-promised, perma-delayed technology leaps has finally arrived: the solid-state battery, or SSB. It comes from Donut Lab, the Finnish company best known for in-wheel electric motors. Those motors feature in Verge electric motorbikes (with the hubless rear wheel). Order a Verge bike today, and you’ll get…

Supercars are boring: what you need is this gorgeous V6-engined lightweight instead

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Supercars are boring. An unpopular opinion, but mid-engined layouts and aero require largely the same solutions, never used 200+mph capability casting the cars into similar profiles. They’re filled with genius level traction control systems necessary to deal with Richter scale outputs, and the active aero is going to give mechanics of 2036 a nosebleed. They…

Forza Horizon 6 wants you to replay a new race event, but is that a good thing?

Mar 30, 2026

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