VOLVO EX30 MONTH 5

Once they headed the company car parks of Eighties Britain, now these executive icons offer prestige, nostalgia and pure driving pleasure from £5k. But which of these trading-floor titans best rewards the shrewd classic motorist?

£254,200 OTR/£282,000 as tested/£5,077 pcm WHY IT’S HERE: What has a hybrid makeover – and Mulliner buffing – added to the world’s best grand tourer? DRIVER: Ollie Kew TOPGEAR’S BENTLEY CONTINENTAL GT

F ast versions of modern Minis are the sort of cars about which reviewers can’t seem to make up their minds. They’ve won group tests on about as many occasions as they’ve gone down in flames. Even thi

WHY WE RAN IT To see if the clever design of Volvo’s small electric crossover can win us over in extended use We’re in a transition era, witnessing the most dramatic shift in automotive technology sin

AT FIRST GLANCE, the idea of a diesel-electric plug-in hybrid seems as logical as Mr Spock: zero-emissions motoring around town, and the efficiency of, well, a diesel car on longer drives. Why, then,