The big test: mid-sized luxury suvs

Eight hot 4x4s, priced from £60k to £360k, mix do-anything, go-anywhere versatility with astonishing performance

£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 TOPGEAR’S BENTLEY CONTINENTAL GT

FIREFLY IS AN OFFSHOOT OF Chinese outfit Nio, due here in 26. You’ll be saying Honda E, as it’s electric and rear-drive and bears visual similarity if you cover the triple lights. Down the road it’s s

Unbelievably, it has been a decade since Alfa Romeo revived the Giulia name for its achingly pretty junior executive saloon, the first of just two models to use the billion-dollar Giorgio platform tha

FIAT GRANDE PANDA PRICE: from £20,975 The Panda was distinctly endangered for a while there (though you can still buy the old petrol one in Italy), but it’s been given a new lease of life with an elec

I SUCCUMBED. OR, as younger people say, I caved. I’d been looking at my Phantom’s bodywork (the victim of a blow-over respray prior to my renewed ownership, after a white ‘wrap’ was removed) and alway