Honda civic

WHY WE RAN IT To check in on a car that we really liked and a brand that has gone rather quiet Nearly 12,000 miles after this surprisingly good-looking SUV was dropped off, the people from Honda have

Cars that wear the ‘built in Britain’ tag tend to err towards being luxurious, expensive and/or sporty – think Aston Martin, McLaren and Land Rover, to name but a few. There are, however, a couple of

IT’S THE NEW FLAGSHIP PLUG-IN hybrid seven-seater from Chinese newcomers Chery – rivalling the Peugeot 5008 and Skoda Kodiaq. The numbers are impressive – up to 2,021 litres of bootspace, 422bhp, 0–62

RETRO revivals are one of the biggest trends in the car industry right now – along with the seemingly obligatory LED lightbars, and a renewed focus on hybridisation as buyer interest for EVs lags behi

I’VE MET THIS ONE A FAIR BIT BEFORE. In fact 20 years ago I seemed to be driving a Type R pretty much every week in yet another battle to establish the best hot hatch. Ah, hot hatches, remember them?

Kia K4 1.6 T-GDi auto GT-Line Price: £31,495 Powertrain: 1.6-litre 4cyl petrol turbo, 147bhp 0-62mph: 9.1 seconds Test efficiency: 39.7mpg Range: 410 miles Annual VED: £195 Volkswagen Golf 1.5 TSI DSG