5 things you need to know about the... abarth 500e

ABARTH has said goodbye to petrol power after 75 years. Fiat’s performance arm kicked off its new electric life with the 500e, and it followed that up with its most powerful road car ever: the 600e. I

Alpine, Abarth, Alfa and Mini have decades of experience in making affordable performance cars. Does that know-how translate to EVs?

THE ELROQ IS DESPERATELY hard to fault. And believe us, we’ve tried. Basically a shrunken Enyaq, it looks tremendous, drives neatly, is efficient and roomy, balances tech and switchgear, and still dar

ASIDE from MINI and maybe Fiat, there are no car manufacturers more synonymous with compact models than Smart, creators of the iconic ForTwo city car. A lot of people think that’s all it does, even th

Let’s get the (not quite so) obvious bits out of the way first: 2165mm, 1720kg and 576bhp. No, those aren’t the headline specs of the new Smart #5 but the differences in overall length, kerb weight an

Few of the many other cars we test in 2025 will carry the significance of this week’s road test subject. Yes, the Ford Puma Gen-E is just another all-electric compact crossover, and there have been qu