An unexpected winner

IT’S easy to forget now, but the Ford Focus was one of the most revolutionary new cars of its era. A model that set the template for incredible sales success over almost three decades. First, a little

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

THE PLAN WAS TO TAKE EIGHT cars to 2025’s evo Car of the Year. They’d be the very best cars we’ve driven during the last 12 months; the cars that made us smile, thrilled us and engaged us. The cars th

T HE CAR PARK AT OUR HOTEL HAS TAKEN ON THE role of a truck stop. It’s early Monday morning and what would ordinarily be a sleepy nook behind a retail park in southeastern France has become a temporar

IN the preceding few pages, you’ll have seen my colleagues sending love letters to some of our most beloved cars that won’t live on beyond this year. But there was one more that called it quits in the

Our first contender to fall by the wayside is the Audi. Yousuf was impressed with how the RS3 performed against such a standout field and was surprised at just how good it felt regardless of which big