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Transfixing on the weight figure of a newly launched EV is surely a hiding to nothing. They’re all broadly guilty of it, so why care? But when a new Mini hot hatchback carries even 1725kg before the d

TORQUE steer is a sensation that will be unfamiliar to new car drivers. But those who have owned an earlier turbocharged hot hatchback from the noughties, or any of the more punchy Saabs from the same

Alpine, Abarth, Alfa and Mini have decades of experience in making affordable performance cars. Does that know-how translate to EVs?

WHY WE’RE RUNNING IT To find out how easy it is to live with a small-battery EV in 2025 The eagle-eyed among you might recognise YE74 NKC. It graced these pages a few weeks ago, when I delivered a two

WHEN JOHN COOPER started tuning Minis back in the early 1960s, he turned an everyday, affordable family car into something that was fast, great to drive and able to defeat far more powerful foes. At i

Few of the many other cars we test in 2025 will carry the significance of this week’s road test subject. Yes, the Ford Puma Gen-E is just another all-electric compact crossover, and there have been qu