‘it’s like a new world!’

Renault’s Twingo returns, cute and electric. But is it a design great like Apple’s G3 iMac – or indeed the original Twingo? Critic Stephen Bayley referees

RENAULT 5 E-TECH MONTH 1

Ollie Gheerbrant suggests that dogs suffer from EV acoustics (12 November). My 10-year-old Labrador would disagree, riding calmly and quietly in the back of my Volkswagen ID 4 with no ill effects even

£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 IT’S 5AM, AND YOU JOIN ME AT hom

Contain yourselves: the Hipster is officially still just a concept. But it’s got our attention and bagged the TopGear Design of the Year award. Look at the size of it – a mere 3m long and 1.5m wide, b

FRENCH car makers don’t have a great track record of selling large cars in the UK. The Peugeot 605 and 607, DS5, Citroen C6, Renault Avantime and Vel Satis all failed to deliver, and it’s always been