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I don’t really like electric cars, but I’m thinking about buying one of these. If I had a pound for every time I’d heard that sentence (or similar) since I started running the R5, I’d probably have enough cash to buy the thing before it goes back to Renault. And that would make me very…

Audi Sport’s first foray into the world of plug-in hybrids. And also the most complex car the company’s RS division has ever made, according to Chief Technical Officer Steffen Bamberger.  The 2.9-litre, 503bhp twin turbo V6 is joined by a 174bhp electric motor, fed by a 25.9kWh battery for a total system output of 630bhp…

Wait… how fast? Yes, this is a standard production Corvette with 1,250bhp. It combines the 5.5-litre twin-turbocharged V8 with 1,064bhp from the ‘standard’ ZR1 with the front e-axle of the hybrid E-Ray model. The result is the most powerful US production car ever and a Corvette that, on paper at least, can stand toe-to-toe with…

Regular readers will remember that I ran a BMW i5 Touring last year. You’ll also recall that (despite my EV skepticism) I rather liked it – and even went as far as to say that BMW currently make the best EVs. The new BMW iX3, which won TG’s most recent Car of the Year Award,…

Wait, what… another restomod? Any fatigue is extinguished the nanosecond you set eyes on the Encor Series 1. Sounds like a photocopier, but rare indeed is the car that looks this good straight out of the box. Sure, it helps no end that it ‘remasters’ the original Lotus Esprit, a 1970s statement car that united…

It’s exactly as I remember. And that’s the key thing. Nothing to do with my memory, but how memorable the Honda NSX was to drive. Because it drove like nothing else. So, to unpack the obvious here, this is a hero I’ve met before. The NSX was on sale for 15 years from 1990 and…

Introduced in the US in the late 1970s, the original crossover was initially offered in coupe, saloon and estate forms with lifted suspension and AWD. A rare convertible version called the Eagle Sundancer was even offered in 1981 and 1982. And yes, it was rare because nobody bought one. Of course we love the original…

Caterham has not spent a lot of time on roofs or concepts for that matter, peddling the same basic open-air effort in the Seven that Lotus invented in 1957. Which is why the AeroSeven is such a departure, obsessing with advanced aerodynamics in its slippery bodywork to create staggering wing-free downforce. Roofless and ruthless.  Honda’s…

Nothing demonstrates the design chutzpah of the city car world quite so proudly. The Mk1 Ford Ka launched in 1996 and lived a whole 12 years – twice the normal model cycle of a car – before being replaced by a duller Mk2, a muted twin of the reborn Fiat 500. It’s fair to say…

Resident Evil: Requiem is out now, and while we blot the viscera on our upcoming review, you can tide yourself over with this fact: Leon drives a Porsche Cayenne Turbo GT in it. We always imagined that his earnings went primarily on herbs and haircare, but apparently not – after three decades of speculation, Capcom’s revealed…