Mobility as a service: the next step for motoring?

John Simister gets under the skin of six classics that are now officially ‘historic’

IT would be easy for a car to become lost in the sea of mid-size, five-seat SUVs, but Citroen has always had an individual streak and this is evident again in the new C5 Aircross. This new-generation

IF THE LATEST Nissan Micra were a person, it would be the performer who had to go on after rock ’n’ roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis had just set fire to his piano. Such is the tough act the Micra has to f

JAMES ATTWOOD Illya, shall we start with your Mini, given that it’s from 2001? ILLYA VERPRAET It’s significant on a number of levels. Originally it was meant to be just a car, but BMW built a whole br

£54,995 OTR/£55,540 as tested/£970 pcm WHY IT’S HERE: Because it’s quite simply the only purely electric sports car in the world (for now...) DRIVER: OLLIE KEW A FACT FOR YOUR ULTIMATE CAR nerd file:

MILEAGE 4828 WHY WE’RE RUNNING IT Is this version good enough to be the performance X3? Back when Jane Austen and the like were still writing, they would often take themselves to the seaside for some