IN January 2018, the Volkswagen Group announced its latest brand: a SEAT spin-off called Cupra. Within months, Cupra had unveiled its first model, the Ateca, which was nothing more than a warmed-over

S mall cars are amazing. With much less space to work with, they must accomplish many of the things that in far larger cars we take for granted. As if that weren’t enough, they must be cheaper than bi

Good news: you can now have a Dacia Sandero for less than the cost of an annual railway season ticket. The Sandero was designed to rival budget superminis such as the Fiat Panda and Kia Rio but it als

THE sharply styled SEAT Leon has traditionally been pitched as the sporty sibling within the Volkswagen Group’s hatchback portfolio. But the rise of the Cupra brand has seen SEAT move towards a more v

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

UNTIL the arrival of the Lupo in 1999, Volkswagen had never offered a city car. The original Beetle arguably sat in the bigger supermini segment, although in period it would have been seen as a small