Myth buster

There was a time when bosses at car manufacturers didn’t like to talk about platforms – the mechanical underpinnings of their cars. These are expensive to develop, so big car companies share them acro

I agree wholeheartedly with Illya Verpraet about adaptive cruise control (Testing, Testing, 4 June): it simply doesn’t work as it should and is inferior to normal cruise control. I find ACC as utterly

It was at once an unsatisfying and actually a very satisfying verdict for a group test. When I put the revised Volkswagen Golf against a pair of rivals in the Toyota Corolla and Peugeot 308 last Augus

The ultimate in off-road performance, Land Rover’s powerful Defender Octa turns everything its predecessor does well up to 11. Our writer took it for a test drive

FIRST DRIVE

Three slipcased volumes, 1960 pages, 665,000 words and 3584 images – now you know why you’re being asked to stump up £395 for a work on supercharging and turbocharging. In its simplest terms, both the