WHY WE’RE RUNNING IT Finally, a proper EV hot hatch – but is it as brilliant every day as the Renault 5 on which it’s based? This will be interesting: what happens when you take a highly acclaimed new

WE SIT IN SILENCE AT THE SUMMIT OF THE Col de Turini. Too late for tourists but too soon for snow, the place is eerily deserted, hushed apart from the rustle of windblown pine trees, the güiro-like ra

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I DON’T THINK IT’S EXAGGERATING to say that none of our recent twin tests would appear quite so alien to an evo reader of 25 years ago as this. Here we have a pair of two-ton semi-SUVs, powered by ele

FOR MANY, FRANCE is the go-to place for wine, cheese or a summer holiday. But what about a sporty, premium electric SUV? A lot of people wouldn’t look past the German brands for one of these, but the

As new models become ever more bloated and indistinguishable from one another in their visual appearance, is it any wonder that car designers are inclined to look over their shoulders at their marques