Turned out nice again

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

MILEAGE 1192 WHY WE’RE RUNNING IT To find out how easy it is to live with a small-battery EV in 2025 When I wrote the ‘hello’ report for my Mini Aceman recently, I posited some questions to consider i

Confident driving on unknown roads.” This message popped into the car’s head-up-display while we had it on test. It’s nearly beautiful, almost like a haiku or sonnet. At the time I was left wondering

BMW M135 £43,740 OTR/£54,050 as tested/£602 pcm WHY IT’S HERE: It’s about time BMW had a hot hatch worthy of the M badge again DRIVER: jethro bovingdon THE M135 LEFT ME QUITE unexpectedly. It was plan

THE ELROQ IS DESPERATELY hard to fault. And believe us, we’ve tried. Basically a shrunken Enyaq, it looks tremendous, drives neatly, is efficient and roomy, balances tech and switchgear, and still dar

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