Toyota prius

ESSENTIALS Volkswagen Golf GTE Price: £40,140 Powertrain: 1.5 4cyl plug-in hybrid, 268bhp 0-62mph: 6.6 seconds WLTP efficiency: 196mpg Official EV range: 81 miles Annual VED: £620 Toyota Prius Excel P

THE COOPER S WAS A SOGGY effort and this isn’t any better. You can forgive a hot hatch appalling ride but when it’s on top of a transmission that’s hard to gel with, an uninspiring soundtrack and impr

PLUG-in hybrid cars, depending on who you believe, are either a wasteful technological dead-end or a sensible compromise and valuable stepping stone to pure-electric vehicles. The truth, as ever, is m

It was probably fate for the current version of the Volvo XC90, the vehicular embodiment of pragmatism and rationality, to steadfastly refuse to die. Why would it, after all, if it could still be usef

COMPANY CARS REMAIN a hugely important part of the UK’s motoring landscape; indeed, almost one in six new cars that hit the roads last year did so as part of a company car fleet. And a significant pro

WE all like getting good value for money, so it’s nice to know that Toyota has enhanced its Yaris supermini line-up by offering the more potent 128bhp hybrid set-up with the mid-range Excel trim, rath