£82,845 OTR/£82,845 as tested/£1,049 pcm WHY IT’S HERE: It’ll conquer the wilderness, but is this £83k Toyota everyday overkill? DRIVER: andy fr anklin WE’VE ALL BEEN THERE, HAVEN’T we? You get home a

PERHAPS THERE’S SOMETHING IN THE water at Ingolstadt. In Mary Shelley’s original Frankenstein novel, it’s there that Victor creates his monster through a mysterious mixture of chemistry and alchemy. A

At the beginning of my first full lap of Llandow Circuit behind the wheel of the Artura in the summer, I had what can at best be called a ‘track limits violation’, cutting the corner onto the grass at

RATINGS = Thrill-free zone = Tepid = Interesting = Seriously good = A truly great car = new entry this month. Cars in italics are no longer on sale. Issue no. is for our most recent major test of the

SMART’S DESIGN TEAM DID A grand job, outside and within the astonishingly roomy, well kitted and well finished cabin. It rides really softly too, a passenger might think it’s a luxury car. The driver

I OFTEN FIND MYSELF SCOURING THE deep recesses of car-based internet forums for a glimpse of the golden era of car development, a time when test mules were truly mysterious things and we weren’t drip-