Jump-start packs

Car Mechanics reviews equipment available to help us motorists.

We test a range of six compact rechargeable devices that can jump-start an engine with a flat battery, pump up the tyres, provide illumination and recharge a mobile phone.

£82,845 OTR/£82,845 as tested/£1,049 pcm WHY IT’S HERE: It’ll conquer the wilderness, but is this £83k Toyota everyday overkill? DRIVER: andy fr anklin WE’VE ALL BEEN THERE, HAVEN’T we? You get home a

The all-electric campervan – something that relies entirely on an electric motor and has no need of gas within the habitation area – is still proving something of an elusive Holy Grail, at least among

SMART’S DESIGN TEAM DID A grand job, outside and within the astonishingly roomy, well kitted and well finished cabin. It rides really softly too, a passenger might think it’s a luxury car. The driver

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