China’s dearest car sizes up uk

BMW M135 £43,740 OTR/£54,050 as tested/£602 pcm WHY IT’S HERE: It’s about time BMW had a hot hatch worthy of the M badge again DRIVER: jethro bovingdon THE M135 LEFT ME QUITE unexpectedly. It was plan

very Chinese car on sale in the UK right now. As in today. Tomorrow there will be more. Three years ago Chinese built cars accounted for just three per cent of European sales, now it’s 20 per cent. Bu

Overkill? Perhaps. Pricey? Yes. But this Defender is special.

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The new Bentley Bentayga Speed has been unwrapped as the brand’s quickest SUV yet, beating its predecessor to 62mph by half a second and going on to 193mph. It swaps the previous Bentayga Speed’s 6.0-