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£254,200 OTR/£282,000 as tested/£5,077 pcm WHY IT’S HERE: What has a hybrid makeover – and Mulliner buffing – added to the world’s best grand tourer? DRIVER: Ollie Kew IT’S 5AM, AND YOU JOIN ME AT hom

TOYOTA IS PART-WAY through a major refresh of its model lineup. Its latest fruits are the C-HR+ electric family SUV and heavily updated Aygo X small car. Despite its familiar-sounding name, the C-HR+

BMW doesn’t really make ‘all new’ cars. Top of my head, just two cropped up in recent decades: the R50 Mini, the i3. BMW had the habit of using more shared parts than you’d guess. It almost always int

THERE IS AN argument that a Kinder Surprise egg is far less satisfying nowadays than it used to be back in the 1990s. Okay, those in agreement might be showing their age, but the reason for this isn’t

No Parisian style parking required here, because the Renault Twingo is back... and it’s a properly dinky little city car! Renault first announced a return for its mini Mini rival back in November 2023

The bolted-in rollcage shivers as you drive. It is the same cage that, along with the vinyl bucket seat’s determined side bolsters, made entering this Morris Mini Cooper ‘S’ feel like squeezing betwee