Carry on regardless

BMW can’t be accused of failing to give its difficult pupil every chance to fit in. The six-cylinder, rear-wheel-drive M135i (later M140i) was a tough act to follow for its transverse-engined successo

TIMES ARE TOUGH FOR THE AVERAGE enthusiast in 2025. Cheap hot hatches have pretty much died out, affordable sports coupes are no more and everything that’s left seems to be getting ludicrously expensi

List price £65,395 Best price £65,395 MPG 30.8 CO2 208g/km For Savage acceleration; immense grip; entertaining handling; quick-shifting automatic gearbox Against Very expensive to buy; some hot hatche

You only need to peruse the first-gen AMG A45’s specs to see why it lured so many hot hatch buyers away from segment leaders like the Audi RS3 and BMW M135i. This was Merc’s first crack at a mega-hatc

FINALLY, THE A5 THE FLEET operators will love – maybe we’ll see some on the roads now. The plug in version of Audi’s stalwart has 20.7kWh for an official range of 61 miles. It runs nicely in EV mode,

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