Winter tyre test 2025

WE rarely experience extended periods of snow here in the UK, so it’s no surprise that the all-season tyre is increasingly popular both here and in regions of Europe with similar climates. In some Eur

Autocar’s history of empirical road testing is the longest in the world. For more than a century, we have been verifying, scrutinising, describing and illustrating new cars in unparalleled detail. Dri

RATINGS = Thrill-free zone = Tepid = Interesting = Seriously good = A truly great car = new entry this month. Cars in italics are no longer on sale. Issue no. is for our most recent major test of the

WE’VE PREVIOUSLY TESTED THE increasingly popular 235/35 R19 on front-drive cars, but this year our test car is a BMW 135i xDrive, a predominantly rear-drive car that goes four-wheel drive when require

BY now, you will have pulled your winter clothes to the front of the wardrobe and switched on the heating at home. The cold weather is here and with it come longer hours of darkness. But it’s not just

I t’s impossible to have a bad time driving a car on a frozen lake. By extension, it’s impossible to have a bad time driving a car on a wet handling circuit, which emulates the former. All the car’s n