Autocar’s best-loved brits

IT’S AN ELECTRIFIED, 4WD Corvette with its engine in the middle and its steering wheel on the right. Yikes! The end result is good though, almighty in straights and trustworthy in corners – just bewar

FIAT GRANDE PANDA PRICE: £20,975–£23,975 The Panda was distinctly endangered for a while there (though you can still buy the old petrol one in Italy), but it’s been given a new lease of life with an e

£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 THE 67 MILE A3 ISN’T EXACTLY celebrated as one o

Volkswagen’s diesel-powered plug-in hybrid took a decade to develop and cost the firm £1 billion. Weighing just 795kg and fitted with a super-frugal 800cc engine and tiny electric motor, the XL1 could

LIKE, I SUSPECT, many British blokes of a certain age, I have happy memories of my father waxing lyrical about WO Bentley’s fantastic cars and the heroics of his team during the 1920s. Somewhere these

EPIC BATTLE DAIMLER 4.0-LITRE VS MERCEDES-BENZ 560SEL