Top 5 hot hatches

£68,810 OTR/£87,040 as tested/£820 pcm WHY IT’S HERE: To discover what role the EQ range actually fulfils for MercedesDRIVER: OLLIE MARRIAGE THE EQE HAS DEPARTED AND I’M not going to miss it. I came t

IF you’re lucky enough to have a car already, it’s going to be a useful part of your purchase of a new one. Almost regardless of age or condition, there will be some value in whatever you’re driving n

I magine it’s 1959. The Mini has just been launched as the Austin Mini Minor – and it’s electric. No, of course it wasn’t, but the new electric Mini Cooper could convince you that the legendary (extre

A contentious opening-lap pass at the Roggia chicane that had a Formula 1 title hopeful, facing already slim chances, in a proper pickle; the weekend’s fastest team eating into its tyres and snatching

This year’s Hot 30 arrives as the entire automotive world takes stock of the internal combustion era. Are we seeing the shape of things to come?

Marque founder Kimber grew up in the Stockport area of Manchester, where his father ran a printing-ink business. He developed an early love of sailing and of photography, and showed a degree of artist