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SPENDING a lot of time in a car over a condensed period is a great way to unearth its strengths and weaknesses. So, a two-week, 1,200-mile break, loaded to the gills, with a roofbox on top plus four b

PLUG-IN HYBRIDS are often a storm of superlatives. In many a model range, they are the most powerful and the most efficient, as is the case with the new Mk3 Audi Q3. That sure sounds mightily impressi

YOU WANT TO FEEL virtuous, right? To join the electric bandwagon and feel like you’re doing the right thing for our planet, but… and the ‘but’ in this case is that dreaded word ‘range’. It’s less worr

Mileage 4656 List price £26,995 Best Price £24,985 Price as tested £27,395 Test range 204 miles SOME OF MY colleagues were shocked when I said I was going to drive to Belgium in my Renault 5. After al

WHEN MARVEL’S IRON Man film came out in 2008, it reset the bar for what a superhero film could be. In the same vein, the new, second-generation BMW iX3 is intended to not only showcase the best techno

YOU might think 60mph on the motorway is a recipe for EV efficiency. And when I charged Kia’s EV9 GT-Line AWD to 100 per cent in the early morning gloom, the trip computer displayed a reassuring 287 m