Steve cropley

MILEAGE 12,607 WHY WE’RE RUNNING IT To discover if Renault’s retro-infused EV hit is as good to live with as it is to look at It’s not quite curtains for our Renault 5 yet, but its departure from our

£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

Bit of trouble with the Mini. Nothing serious, just inconvenient. Our 65,000-mile, 69-plate Cooper S was about 3000 miles short of its next major service when a warning popped up to announce that its

REGULAR Auto Express readers will know that I’ve just come to the end of a test of a Vauxhall Grandland. Having parted ways with perhaps one of the most sensible EVs on the market, I’ve been on the lo

PANDA AND INSTER TOO TITCHY for you? Similar money can bag you a 4.3m long SUV with electric power too. Vauxhall’s entire car lineup offers an EV powertrain, all of which get the £1,500 government gra

Retro done right is a complicated proposition. Too much cut ’n’ paste and you’re in a world of heavy handed pastiche, the blood and bones of caricature. Too little, and your nod to the past ends up im