Road test results

Autocar’s history of empirical road testing is the longest in the world. For more than a century, we have been verifying, scrutinising, describing and illustrating new cars in unparalleled detail. Dri

Autocar’s history of empirical road testing is the longest in the world. For more than a century, we have been verifying, scrutinising, describing and illustrating new cars in unparalleled detail. Dri

This week marks the the MoT test’s 65th anniversary. We look back on the seismic changes that it brought to British roads and motorists alike

= new entry this month. Cars in italics are no longer on sale. Issue no. is for our most recent major test of the car (D = Driven, F = feature, FF = Fast Fleet). Engine shows details of the car’s comb

1960s Britain needed an MoT that could keep pace with a changing motoring landscape as the decade progressed

THE FIRST ERAS TEST WAS SPECIAL. PERFECT ROADS, CRISP spring weather and a chance to get under the skin of six ’80s icons, cars my more senior colleagues earned their road-testing stripes in. Being ev