Powering up

IS the hatchback making a comeback? After years of SUVs being the most fashionable bodystyle among buyers, there’s a sense that things are switching back. The drive for extra efficiency from car maker

The EV5 is Kia’s vegan sausage roll. Much like the pork-filled pastry, the combustion-engined Sportage is a firm favourite of the British public (more than 45,000 left showrooms across the UK last yea

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

ALPINE DODGES THE QUESTION OF WHICH RIVAL the new £61,390 A390 GT is aimed at, but does point out that its latest EV is deliberately smaller and attempts to be more elegant than Porsche’s £71,900 Maca

MILEAGE 1072 WHY WE’RE RUNNING IT Do you need all the bells and whistles to create a good premium commuter? When I switched into Will Rimell’s Q6 E-tron, it was because he wanted to borrow my seven-se

Xpeng has been in the UK for less than a year, yet it has already updated its initial offering. The Chinese EV firm claims to have made “over 20,000 incremental developments” to the G6’s design, inter