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THE farewell to a long-term test car is always bittersweet, but perhaps none more so than saying goodbye to my Mazda CX-30. For nearly a year, this small SUV has served as my dependable companion, see

The roll call of cars that were on the scene 50 years ago and which are still being built today is short. It gets shorter still if you stipulate a perfect, unbroken run of production. If you then dism

WHY WE RAN IT To find out if this version is good enough to be the performance X3 I thought I’d like this. But I really, really liked it. And I’m not the only one. The BMW X3 M50 was by far and away t

PLUG-in hybrids: the best-of-both worlds or the devil’s work? Given its Fire Red paint and matt black 21-inch alloys, the X3 30e M Sport is a dead-ringer for South Park’s Satan, but fuel efficiency is

MAZDA surprised visitors to the Japan Mobility Show with a unexpected concept car called the Vision X-Compact. This supermini-sized model previews a new Mazda 2, which should arrive some time in 2026

ASKING £22,995 PRICE ENGINE 3201cc/6-cyl/DOHC POWER 321bhp@7400rpm TORQUE ...