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Quick game of car company word association? BMW: grilles. Jaecoo: Poundland. Morgan: wood. Whether you’re as old as the nearby Malvern Hills or not yet tall enough to see over those running board front wings, chances are you know Morgan as the staunchly traditional British sports cars made out of wood. OK, not entirely. Morgan…

Frank Stephenson is a car designer with more hits than the Beatles, including the Escort RS Cossie, first BMW Mini, Maser MC12, numerous Ferraris and the McLaren P1. These days he runs his own consultancy – Frank Stephenson Design. Here he shares his views on the reborn Renault Twingo If optimism had four wheels and…

The brilliantly boxy little Super-N is coming to the UK, and the dinky all-electric Renault Twingo rival will start at less than £20,000 when orders open in July. We now know that it’ll get 128 miles of range, or up to 199 miles if you daren’t venture out of the city. As you may remember…

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, July 2009 I’m trying to work out why anyone would buy a standard BMW 320d M Sport over this Alpina D3 and er, yeah, hmm,…

In classic Lifer fashion, the Elroq vRS is impressing more the longer it’s here. It had the misfortune of following the overtly designer-y and Scandi-stylish Polestar 3 – also faster and more powerful – so there was a slight return to earth at first. But the respect is growing. In part, it’s because I got…

This is the new Mercedes-Benz EQS. It is a very expensive, oversized pebble masquerading as a tech-laden luxury saloon, and wearing its 450+ outfit, claims a mahoosive 575 miles of range. That’s… more. More than the outgoing Mercedes-Benz EQS could manage (a paltry 481 miles, pah), more than the BMW iX3’s significant 500 miles, more…

32 minutes 15 seconds Plenty of Porsche 911s have been reimagined by Singer, but ​its latest offering – the DLS Turbo – might well be its masterpiece. For the 99 clients who’ll commission Singer’s DLS Turbo services, the restoration will include a 710bhp twin-turbo flat-six that revs to 9,000rpm, but even that’s overshadowed by the…

Yes, we’ve played it and we can exclusively report that it feels like… well, it feels like a Forza Horizon game. Playground Games has taken the phrase ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t start hitting it with a hammer’ to heart and applied its enormously successful core Horizon formula to Japan. Yes, there are tweaks to…

Chances are, you don’t need us to regale you with tales of the Rolls-Royce–Bentley L-Series V8 engine. Given it was in production for more than 60 years, you probably already know the story. Instead, why don’t we just bask in these lovely images of a Rolls-Royce Corniche Fixed Head Coupe that’s of course fitted with…

The obvious diving watch might be something rubber strapped and battery powered. Instead, why not go old school automatic with a steel bracelet? It will pick up knocks and scratches as it goes, but this tool watch will take them in its stride. 41mm case,  £279; citizenwatch.co.uk As well as a bronze case that will grow…